"A civilisation which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original," Abbey argued, "is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilisation itself".
"The court of cassation has recognised a principle of civilisation: it is mutual consent that determines whether what happens between two people has criminal implications or not," said Franca Bimbi, an opposition MP.
More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organising principle of world civilisation".
Market-based solutions can offer a compromise between the camps, as well as an antidote to soaring costs; but to opt for them wholeheartedly will require a huge shift from the present dirigiste approach.The candidates propose RESCUE of the environment", insisted Al Gore, must become "the central organising principle for civilisation".
insists... upon the principle that in every type of civilisation, every custom, material object, idea and belief fulfils some vital function, has some task to accomplish, represents an indispensable part within a working whole.
His functional theory, as he himself explained, insists... upon the principle that in every type of civilisation, every custom, material object, idea and belief fulfils some vital function, has some task to accomplish, represents an indispensable part within a working whole.
Again, this is where Marxist historical materialism is married up with the dialectic – and he sees the two as inseparable – by pointing out that the switch from the pleasure principle to the reality principle was absolutely necessary for the development of civilisation but that, in the process, the Eros of human fulfilment had to be sublimated.
In the early 1990s he described himself as an "advocate of civilisation, definer of civilisation, teacher of the rules of civilisation…leader (possibly) of the civilising forces".
Surely, the end of civilisation.
