Sentences with phrase «account of human»

Chapter 4 of this Report provides a detailed account of the human cost of the confirmation provisions to Indigenous people.

I wish to offer a broader account of the human rights principles at stake.

An Oxford student note from 2000 updated in 2007 and an account of human rights in Fiji.

«Nearly a quarter of us believe the biblical account of human origins over the Darwinian account.

«In this wide - ranging and highly readable book Bill Calvin, one of the foremost interpreters of the mysteries posed by our remarkable human consciousness, builds a dramatic yet thoughtful and very personal account of human evolution around the theme of climatic change in our emergence.

Rumelhart DE (1989) Toward a microstructural account of human reasoning.

Hulda D. Robbins (1910 - 2011) was inspired by Kathe Kollwitz, a German artist whose work captured a harsh account of the human condition in the early 20th century.

The theory is an account of human cognition in its fullness.

By coincidence, The Big Short opens in UK cinemas just as Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes, a powerful account of the human cost of the housing crash, comes to DVD.

Peter Berg's dramatization of the BP oil spill in April of 2010 is a decidedly solid account of human bravery but it is an incomplete picture.

Wright is careful to include both genes and environment in his account of human nature.

It begins with the story of Johanson's discoveries, then presents an account of human origins within the framework of the people and places he visited while making the television programmes.

Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince nearly five hundred years ago and although pious renaissance observers abhorred the idea that ends might justify means, Machiavelli's political treatise remains an astute account of human nature and the struggle for power.

It also contains, however, an intellectual history of moral philosophy, a theory of virtue, and an account of human nature as being part of a larger framework created by a benevolent deity.

We are informed that a «normative» account of human freedom appeals blindly to an era that is irretrievable.

Because any normative account of human nature, or natural law, would be inherently dangerous: Such knowledge sets out to guide, and thus delimit, our choices according to objective measures.

In the face of liberal modernity, we must provide a dense account of the human good, and indeed a primarily theological account.

Kozol's account of the human toll of poverty and inequality reflects an all - too - common reality in the U.S. and in the developing world.

Yet Niebuhr was also a great preacher, able to use the burgeoning modes of social science to show how theology could provide a gripping account of the human condition.

James knew that the most challenging implication of Darwin's work is not its account of human origins but its claim that human existence and possible nonexistence is a matter of chance.

I no longer believe that there is any inherent conflict between the Scriptures and the scientific account of human origins, by which of course I mean evolution.

Even those Christian values he wishes to uphold can only last and pass between the generations if they are grounded in a convincing and objective account of human nature.

However, a great deal can not, and the results of shaping so much of what we do as if the model were an adequate account of human beings and their relations is doing enormous harm in the world.

The word of God is not a mysterious oracle, but a sober, factual account of a human life, and this word, it is claimed, possesses saving efficacy for man.»

McGrath suggests a new reformulation of natural theology, seeing its task as offering an interpretation of nature based on Trinitarian faith, including an account of human engagement with nature in the moral and aesthetic dimensions as well.

The early chapters of Genesis (after the first one) present an account of human beginnings largely in temporal sequence, seemingly as an unfolding account of early human history.

Perhaps such assumptions are required by Friedersdorf's (mostly blue - state) audience, and perhaps such assumptions will be more effective than an argument from the Western tradition's account of human nature.

She writes that «while many modernists saw scriptural discrepancies as evidence that the Bible was not «true,» postmodernists would attribute discrepancies to the pluralistic situatedness of interpretation,» making the Bible a more true - to - life and authentic account of human interaction with the divine.

If we accept the account of human nature given by the Western theological and philosophical traditions — that we are free, rational beings, limited and imperfect, prone to diversity of opinion and errors in judgment — we may be more inclined to be not only tolerant but gracious and loving toward those with whom we disagree.

The use of this new term, however, has not brought with it a solution to the formidable problems that have always confronted those attempting to provide a physicalist account of human consciousness.

So much a part of man's being and so much a part of his history has his worship been, that any account of human life and any attempt to understand it that fails to reckon with this fact is by that very token a partial and even a mistaken account.

To understand this thought, we need to revisit our theological account of human nature.

Indeed, MacIntyre reports, he learned that his attempt to provide an account of the human good in social terms was inadequate without a metaphysical grounding.

(To avoid misunderstanding it may be well to point out that the general synthesis outlined in these pages makes no claim to replace or to exclude the theological account of human destiny.

The application of love to schemes of justice must prudently take account of the human factor.

The welfare state, in their opinion, does not take adequate account of human sinfulness.

The Christian explanation of who we are as free persons might make more sense that Rousseau's account of human freedom as an inexplicable cosmic accident.

The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.

(The account of human uniqueness given by faith offers a fascinating approach to the problem of «ensoulment».)

A scientific account of human values is one that measures the outcome of world states with the outcome of brain states.

Christians of all people should have no difficulty with an account of human society that recognizes both monistic and pluralistic dimensions or with the double confession that «there are two» and that «there is One.»

If philosophers are persuaded that they must give an account of human nature, and, ultimately, responsible human action, in terms of Whiteheadian actual entities, societies, and the like, I am sure they will produce some ingenious constructions.

Fifteen percent of those surveyed said that theology's main role with respect to science is to «support the biblical account of the human creation and fall.»

«5 The full account of the human ousia in De Anima and in the Nichomachean Ethics is a dynamic one, in which the rationality of the agent shapes, by virtue of his choices and his actions, his own coming - to - be.

In recent years, conservative Aristotelian - Thomists like Patrick Deneen and Alasdair MacIntyre have made the argument that a moral philosophy entailing a substantive account of human happiness or fulfillment is simply incompatible with the American liberal - democratic political order.

The problem may not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true about Christian morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the human person.

Similarly the word of God is not some mysterious oracle, but a sober, factual account of a human life, of Jesus of Nazareth, possessing saving efficacy for man.

Today, many understand Darwinism to provide a comprehensive account of human life and therefore, it represents the pinnacle of reason.

The findings in these new fields of inquiry may possibly require important modifications in the scientific account of human thought, but not, as far as now appears, in the direction of re-establishing a simple body - soul duality.)

Third and perhaps most surprising, Jones subscribes to Calvin's account of the human condition as one of total depravity.