Sentences with phrase «about human self»

As Adam is simply the Hebrew word for «man», the story is about man and his wife, and becomes one of the most penetrating narratives ever written about human self - understanding.

It is helpful in that he talks about the human self in terms of his system.

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Backup human drivers in Uber's self - driving cars had to take over about once every mile as of March 8, according to documents obtained by Recode (Uber doesn't make its data publicly available).

Human interactions — especially in the age of online shopping and self - service, when they are so few and far between — are what your customers will remember and what they'll talk about, perhaps very publicly.

Nevertheless, Khosrowshahi remains optimistic about the future of the program, asserting that «ultimately, self - driving cars will be safer than humans,» but that right now, they're more like «student drivers.»

About 100 of the company's self - driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans are now driving around Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix, without a human test driver — a move that catapults Waymo ahead of its competitors.

SAN FRANCISCO — A self - driving car flipped on its side seems guaranteed to make humans think twice about riding with a robot.

Much is being written about the push to develop self - driving automobiles, with tech companies and automakers alike pumping human and financial capital into the quest while promising such transportation robots by 2021.

They have no idea what they are talking about, no idea how the universe came into being, how universal laws came into being or how self searching organisms like Humans came into being, but know pretty well that Christianity is just plain bad.

Anthropology and Spanish are exotic enough for laughter, but at least government (if it is American Government) will require them to think about their own lives as allegedly self - governing human beings.

If you're interested in self - inquiry there are a lot of psychological texts written in recent years when the science was far, far in advance of anything understood about humans back in biblical times.

Another unfortunate truth about us and our human nature is to resist giving our self away to trust in someone outside of ourself.

The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our human capacity to learn personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion with other persons, and most of all with the unseen God.

Grisez - Finnis likewise begin with self - evident first principles that are not derived from any factual propositions about human nature.

Absolutely nothing special about humans compared to dolphins, monkeys, cat, dogs, or ants, other than our amazing ability for self - delusion!)

It is the overarching meta purpose as in the purpose of human existence as opposed to an individual self created self bestowed purpose of life (such as caring for ones family) that I was musing about.

Christian thinking about God and Jesus Christ and the human self can not be separated from Christian thinking about the body, human society, and the natural world.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

Our self - awareness, though it helps define what is unique and precious about being human, also renders us prey to guilt and to the anxiety stemming from our existential aloneness and our mortality.

As in even the most intimate of human relations there are facts for psychologists to discover and use towards man's self - understanding, so there is no limit to what may be found out about what happens in prayer.

Indeed, it misses almost everything essential about the actual workings of the modern industrial economy: the cooperation and trust of millions of total strangers required for efficient industry to replace self - sufficiency; the inevitable centrality of government in the complex human construction of a national or global economy; large corporations with their hierarchies, multiple and shifting purposes and fragile but definite unity.

The circumstances surrounding his birth enable both Abraham and Sarah to see the permanent truth about parenthood: Children are not man's products or creatures, and thus the pride that human beings naturally take in their own children as their own children is vanity and self - delusion.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

In the company of discerning teachers and learners, my education was being shaped out of certain assumptions that had as much to do with living life as with thinking about it: that we are «in relation» whatever we may think of that fact, that the most basic human unit is not therefore «the self but rather «the relation»; and that this intrinsic mutuality demands — and should be the foundation of — our ethics, politics, pastoral care and theologies.

Think about it: The earth, at 25,000 miles «round the equator, is just barely big enough to contain all life... and perhaps... It IS N'T big enough to contain the (self - over-populated) species «H.Sapiens.Sapient», («Human - Kind»)... also known as «H.Sapiens.Egotisticae», (aka, «Egotistical Man»)!!

Now, a disgruntled troll of human being that complains about their rights being trampled when someone else pronounces their faith get laws put in place to support their enormously bias, self - centered and self - serving agenda.

She doesn't have the least interest in our god - given human hunger for meaning and transcendent values all Mother Nature cares about is the survival of the species which requires getting the DNA from one generation to the next and providing for the young until they are self - sufficient enough to sustain their own lives and we are the venue.

It's a self - contradictory term Why do you think it took so long to fight and argue about it in the councils when humans cooked up that nonsense.

Even those who are not informed about contemporary psychological analysis of human experience may very well feel that it is not adequate to describe that experience as if we were speaking about some persistent «I», to which things happened; a self which did things that were, so to say, merely adjectival to the substantival «I».

We know through the psychological clinics something more about the mechanisms which operate when the human spirit is anxious and self - protective.

Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our fate.

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.

But the clarification and development of human self - understanding was for Hebrew man a function of his beliefs about Yahweh.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

In the next place, a purpose of proclamation is to bring about genuine commitment, whether this is for the first time (as with some who are present it very well may be) or is a renewed response in self - dedication to God who in Christ has acted decisively for us humans and for our wholeness.

As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.

Before we set out Whitehead's view, it should be noted that if his view really is a different way of looking at real things, then we will need to think about freedom, human action, responsibility, the meaning of life, the self, etc. in a new way.

Just as physics reveals little of significance about man until one reflects on the enterprises of science and technology, so scientific psychology, aiming to out - do physics in objective rigor, can yield little insight about man until the distinctive human quality of self - awareness is acknowledged as an essential factor in psychological inquiry.

Systemic suffering and social malfunctioning, therefore, are caused by human greed, self - centeredness, an illusion about power and control, racism, sexism, imperialism, ethnocentrism, and other factors.

This theological perspective is much broader and more sweeping in scope than what appears in the X chromosome study which does not ask about the total orientation of the human self.

1995), «the fine working of the market is close to the heart of western society's self - definition» and they speak about its underlying presuppositions thus: «Indeed for Smith, the market played a role in all forms of human progress.

In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.

We have a highly developed apparatus for thinking about and dealing with the individual and the State, but we lack adequate concepts and even words for a legal - political approach to those intermediate institutions within which the personalities of men, women, and children are formed, and upon which human beings depend for support and self - realization.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

One tends to speak about or for others, assuming that humans are the only life forms that self - reveal through speech.

Nevertheless, the assumption of mutually unrelated individuals each pursuing self - interest at the expense of others tells us much about their understanding of human beings.

The force of my arguments about past responsibility or future fear is not essentially one of grounding altruism or appropriate self - interest, which I would ground in the metaphysical claim that all humans have the same essence which constitutes their unity as a class called by Kant the kingdom of ends.