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- Dictionaryinhumanity/ˌɪnhjʊˈmanɪti/
noun
- 1. extremely cruel and brutal behaviour: "man's inhumanity to man"
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1 day ago · In notes from a late lecture course, Merleau-Ponty is still reminding students that “[W]hat matters is not so much to define the role of nature as to pose the ontological problem, that is, the problem of the relation between subject and object” . Much like Heidegger, whose critical confrontation with metaphysics very much stimulated and guided him, Merleau-Ponty recognized early in his life the ruthless power, cruelty, violence, injustice, and inhumanity inherent in the exclusionary ...
1 day ago · Impunity breeds inhumanity. Just two weeks ago, this Assembly approved a resolution proposed by Palestine affirming the ICJ’s advisory opinion and called on members to act to reinforce the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. The war, the oppression, and the inhumanity must end.
1 day ago · Discrimination typically leads to groups being unfairly treated on the basis of perceived statuses based on ethnic, racial, gender or religious categories. [2][3] It involves depriving members of one group of opportunities or privileges that are available to members of another group.
4 days ago · Perhaps the most common forms of resistance were those that took place in the work environment. After all, slavery was ultimately about coerced labor, and the enslaved struggled daily to define the terms of their work. Over the years, customary rights emerged in most fields of production.
2 days ago · The official United Nations definition of ethnic cleansing is "rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group." [39] As a category, ethnic cleansing encompasses a continuum or spectrum of policies.
1 day ago · They are commonly understood as inalienable, [3] fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because he or she is a human being" [4] and which are "inherent in all human beings", [5] regardless of age, ethnic origin, location, language, religion, ethnicity, or any other status. [3]
1 day ago · War and fun: the blind spot of war epistemologies. The study of fun in war presents a curious lacuna in social science research. On the one hand, war has received ample attention as a modality of power, Footnote 3 a practice of sovereignty, Footnote 4 a process of state-making, Footnote 5 a project to exercise the right to kill, Footnote 6 a way towards freedom, Footnote 7 a force for good, Footnote 8 and a battle over limited resources.
