What is "dehumanizing"

Usage examples of "dehumanizing".

To say that in the modern world slavery disrupts brain chemistry, devastates self-esteem, embodies sick cultural meanings, and is a dehumanizing institutionis to say the same thing.

The new "dehumanizing humanism" was dehumanizing precisely because the fingerprints of Thanatos were all over the corpse.

It was hard on a moral and seriously practicing Catholic, demoralizing, dehumanizing, and quite literally had me worried by the physical aftermath of disease effects.

The American psychologist Charles Tart, who believes the evidence for extrasensory perception is convincing, writes: An important factor in the current popularity of `New Age' ideas is a reaction against the dehumanizing, despiritualizing effects otscientism, the philosophical belief (masquerading as objective science and held with the emotional tenacity of born-again fundamentalism) that we are nothing but material beings.

Nevertheless, the existence of slavery in the midst of a society believing in individualism increased its dehumanizing effects.

The technique has provided important insights into the plight of the slave as the victim of a dehumanizing system, but it tends to obscure the active participation of Africans in American life.

The answer given by most writers on alienation is not always stated explicitly, but—in their countless disparaging references to "the dehumanizing effects of industrialism," "soul-destroying commercialism," "the arid rationalism of a technological culture," "the vulgar materialism of the West," etc.

The most dehumanizing level of poverty is the level on which bare animal necessities become one's only concern and goal.

There were many reasons for this, ranging from dehumanizing customs procedures to the lack of first-class tourist accommodations.

And Magda was not facing the machines and dehumanizing life of the Terran Zone, she was here surrounded by the love and concern of all the Guild House sisters!

To those songs I trace my firstglimmering conception of the dehumanizing char-acter of slavery.

To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing char acter of slavery.

Walsh needed a second pair of eyes, of course-she would hardly have let them put all that nasty dehumanizing technology inside her own body .

Like earlier British writers and artists, Lawrence believed that industrialism doomed the worker to a life of dehumanizing ugliness and servility.

He believed that industrialism was dehumanizing and destructive to civilization.