Sentence examples for universal civilisation from inspiring English sources
Its goals were the modernisation of Russia on a western model and the establishment of a new, universal civilisation.
The predominant varieties of atheist thinking, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, aimed to show that the secular west is the model for a universal civilisation.
In the primitive catechism of market ideology, a global free market and the Enlightenment ideal of a universal civilisation were identified.
Intellectually, he eventually found a kind of world synthesis in the universal civilisation ideas of the French Catholic sage, Père Teilhard du Chardin.
The mania surrounding globalisation was only the latest incarnation of the Enlightenment faith that the advance of science and technology would create a universal civilisation, and predictably it was not long before it gave way to anxiety and foreboding.
The second version was the era of imperial hubris when the US thought of itself not only as the sole superpower but (in the typical imperial manner) as the universal civilisation.
It was not so long ago – in the early 19th century – that French pretensions to a rational, universal, and cosmopolitan civilisation first provoked resentful Germans into the militant expression of what we now call "cultural nationalism": the assertion of authentic culture rooted in national or regional character and history.
He published a memoir, Ce que je crois: négritude, francité, et civilisation de l'universel (1988; "That Which I Believe: Negritude, Frenchness, and Universal Civilization"), as well as more poetry.
"We're fighting for freedom, and civilisation and universal values".
China faced a choice, it said, of maintaining its authoritarian system or "recognising universal values, joining the mainstream of civilisation and setting up a democracy".
For Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise, seeking out new life and new civilisations wouldn't have been much use without a universal translator to deal with new languages too.
