When material needs are largely satisfied,” writes Carl Rogers, as they tend to be for many people in this affluent society, individuals are turning to the psychological world, groping for a greater degree of authenticity and fulfillment.” The clear distinction between material and psychic needs is already the mystification; it capitulates to the ideology of the affluent society which affirms the material structure is sound, conceding only that some psychic and spiritual values might be lacking. Exactly this distinction sets up authenticity” and fulfillment” as so many more commodities for the shopper. Rather it is the fissure itself which is the source of the ills—between work and free” time, material structure and psychological world,” producers and consumers.
There was no distinction made between Gypsies and Jews, the same order applied to both.
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.
The activity of observing establishes a distinction in a space that remains unmarked, the space from which the observer executes the distinction. The observer must employ a distinction in order to generate the difference between unmarked and marked space, and between himself and what he indicates. The whole point of this distinction (its intention) is to mark something as distinct from something else. At the same time, the observer — in drawing a distinction — makes himself visable to others. He betrays his presence — even if a further distinction is required to distinguish him.
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of culture” quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.
With the advent of medieval Scholasticism, … we find a clear distinction between theologia and philosophia.