Sentences with phrase «humans early existence»

But I think judging, in Humans early existence, was a survival strategy, to decide what was safe and not safe.

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In the early days of human existence, for example, it served a survival purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other humans.

Early - stage tech companies raise money through a stubbornly analog process — an irony for an industry based on the conviction that computers will upend every aspect of human existence.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

All that we can say with confidence, however, is that our earliest knowledge of humankind takes us back only to the point where humans were already scattered into groups, living a tribal existence, each with its own language and culture.

The distance between the moral principles which the Church proclaims and — leaving aside for the moment the question of the Church's pastoral office — which alone can be propounded doctrinally, and the concrete prescriptions by which the individual and the various human communities freely shape their existence, has now increased to an extent that introduces what is practically a difference of nature as compared with earlier times.

Of course, existentialist theologians like Tillich and biblical scholars like Bultmann have already drawn upon Heidegger's early writings, particularly Being and Time, in developing doctrines of God and human existence.

This, of course, is in accordance with our earlier comments about direction or routing; and any accurate portrayal of human existence is to be found, not in some static cross-section at this or that moment, but rather in the movement which that existence is taking from the past, through the present, towards the future.

All of this in an historical succession in which the past of the tradition still lives in the present of contemporary human existence, with an aim toward fulfillment of the dominant and dominating purpose which in the earliest witness was declared as having been enacted in the originating event of Jesus Christ himself.

If the evidence required us to assume that the earliest beings we call human did in fact embody this structure of existence, then we would have to posit exceedingly high levels of mentality in our prehuman ancestors, assuming that for hundreds of thousands of years they must have far more closely approximated our contemporary existence than does any now existing nonhuman member of the simian family.

Process philosophy offers definite advantages for Christian theology over earlier naturalistic and idealistic philosophies because it recognizes the qualitative discontinuities in human existence and refuses to identify God with any natural process.

A corollary of all this that is crucial for Whitehead's reflections on education is the idea that a life led on the level of human existence that is mere dull repetition of value realized in earlier experience is less than fully human.

I used this analogy earlier in my attempt to get at the significance of Jesus as what has traditionally been called the incarnation of God in human existence.

The religion of early humans focused on the maintenance of stable tribal existence in the face of nature's wild elements and the hostility of other peoples.

In him divinity and humanity were genuinely united; his human existence was the organon (as Athanasius later put it in the early years of the fourth century) for God in the outgoing world - ward expression of the divine reality.

Human beings after death were, to the early Hebrews, still bodies, attenuated leftovers and shadowy replicas of the flesh, and these existences beyond the grave the Old Testament called rephaim — that is, shadows or ghosts.

I have noted this on earlier pages; here it is only necessary to add that precisely this fact gives existence, and for us a fortiori human existence, its value or what Whitehead called its «importance.»

A trust in God's promise leads away from earlier styles of human existence defined simply by the seasons.

For otherwise his earlier existence must have been merely brutish, and the Teacher who gave him the Truth and with it the condition was the original creator of his human nature.

No longer can we live as if we were in an earlier age, when ethical teaching was either ignorant of what we now know to be the case or unwilling to give due recognition to human existence as we have come to understand it.

In contrast, the person who has known enough genuine intimacy in his early, need - satisfying relationships to feel some «basic trust» in his relationships can recognize, confront, and accept the essential loneliness of human existence.

The first milk banks came into existence in the early 20th century as food technology evolved allowing for successful storage of human milk.

Clearly, while fit for evolutionary purpose, it wasn't physiologically consistently reliable and this led to the dreadful death rates amongst mothers and infants for so much of human existence — birth and then early infancy were incredibly risky.

The dna molecule, Kean asserts, is the «grand narrative of human existence» — and he boldly sets out to tell the tale, not only explaining genetics and its scientific history but linking Mendel's pea shoots to the evolution of early humans.

Boyden describes four ecological phases of human existence: hunter - gatherer, early farming, early urban and modern high - energy.

Among the earliest approaches we find the developmental theory of Abraham Maslow, emphasizing a hierarchy of needs and motivations; the existential psychology of Rollo May acknowledging human choice and the tragic aspects of human existence; and the person - centered or client - centered therapy of Carl Rogers, which is centered around the clients» capacity for self - direction and understanding of his / her own development.

«The early explorers like Scott and Shackleton had to explore the limits of human existence, but we're now exploring the limits of life in general.

In fact, in an assessment earlier this year, Cambridge researchers Professor Roger Pedersen and PhD student Victoria Mascetti concluded that the existence of naive human stem cells required confirmation by other stem cell research groups: «Like Higgs» Boson to the field of particle physics,» they explained, naivety in human stem cells «was predicted from considerations of symmetry and conservation, [but] we are yet to unlock its potential.»

Scientists suggest that the discovery is relevant as it suggests that humans were making tools much earlier than when the genus Homo came into existence.

Archaeological excavations have revealed the existence of humans in what is now Vietnam as early as the Paleolithic age.

Enjoy advanced features you find at other Filipina dating or Philippines dating sites and Archaeological excavations have revealed the existence of humans in what is now Vietnam as early as the Paleolithic age.

One of the many times I came to the realization that human existence is completely absurd was in early 1999.

A perfect human existence, probably in the latter part of the last century or earlier.

Our older brain structures that evolved to serve us well in the era of early human existence are essentially designed for fight or flight functions, which served us very well for thousands of years, and still do for some aspects of modern day life.

There's no telling what exactly happened during the earliest forms of human existence, but Nick Park tries to explain everything in his most recent animated film, Early Man.

Stenvert early cinematic works, including the first Austrian experimental film The Raven (1951), tell us about the biological, psychological, sociological and philosophical conditions of human existence.