Sentences with phrase «actual human nature»

Given actual human nature when it comes to real change, that looks to be something of a long, drawn out process.

Emerson already said «things are in the saddle and ride mankind» Walter Bagehot, in his Economic Studies, wrote of David Ricardo, one of the founding fathers of economics: «He thought he was considering actual human nature in its actual circumstances, when he was considering a fictitious nature in fictitious circumstances» (quoted in Daly & Cobb 1989, p. 36).

Not exact matches

In a nod to the highly experimental nature of its Pittsburgh plan, Uber intends to have an actual human being behind the wheel — just in case.

Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its impact on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

Once God is regarded as an actual entity, the use of personalistic language follows naturally, for our basic clue to the nature of an actual entity is given in our own immediate human experience.

Using human experience as a model to depict the nature of reality, Whitehead argues that every actuality (i.e., every actual event) has both a present subjective immediacy and a past objectivity.

To recognize the factual nature of values as responses of actual human beings in actual or imagined situations is to remain on the solid ground of experience which all can understand.

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.

Despite the potential and actual contribution of capitalistic globalization to improve human life, the safeguarding of human rights or the care of nature are not among its specific objectives.

An actual human being, even a baby is already the union of God's grace and human nature.

Although God assists in determining the nature of reality by initiating the «subjective aim» of each emerging actual entity, because reality is self - creative the human being must assume responsibility for systemic suffering and social malfunctioning in the world.

But for Marxists, transcendence is the actual human experience that the human person, though belonging to nature, is different from the things and animals and that the human being, able to progress always, is never complete.

Because Whitehead conceives the human psyche not to be a single actuality, but a temporally - ordered society of occasions of experience, and further believes all actual entities to be occasions of experience, he is able to use «the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediate present occasion of experience with one's immediately past occasions... to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature» (AI 284).

If human experience is genuinely a part of nature, and if there be only one type of actual entity within nature (an idea whose truth - value must finally be verified heuristically), then, since it is that part of nature one knows most intimately, it provides the best starting point for finding principles that can be generalized to all actual entities.

The previous discussion indicates how Whitehead believes one can, by generalizing from occasions of human experience, talk meaningfully about the nature of nonhuman actual entities in themselves.

We have noted that what must be assumed, in order that human experience (and the ultimate particles of nature) can be understood, are successive «actual occasions of experience.»

It rather appears to be the degree to which, in and through the experiences to which these statements point, there is effected an actual deepening and widening of spiritual insight into the nature of ultimate reality, of human existence and of the destiny of man.

It requires a whole constellation of seemingly bizarre physical and mental skills that, through countless barren millennia, were not only unrealized but also unsuspected potencies of human nature, silently awaiting the formal cause from beyond that would make them actual.

Whilst such an end in the natural order may well be intelligible, a knowing and loving as it were «at God», in the actual, historical dispensation, our spiritual and human end has been revealed as being «sharing the divine nature».

They also found a statistically significant, but weaker, correlation between people's genes for BMI and actual BMI in partners: People had actively chosen partners with similar genes to themselves, the team reports today in Nature Human Behaviour.

And, as much as vegans wouldn't want to admit it, if the human species returned to a more literal Paleo picture — actually hunting for actual wild animals when necessary (and eating them fresh), making animal foods just a part of the overall diet, and eating no refined plants (like white flour or white rice, which don't exist in nature), a couple things would happen: (1) we could put an end to the horrific treatment of animals in the factory farming industry, and (2) the environmental devastation that results from our current food production model would be substantially minimized.

And in my opinion, the most effective candida treatment protocol is still the one that uses what has proven to work in the past, along with an excellent understanding of human nature and the actual causative effects of candida.

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

While the actual arrests of congressmen, one senator and some state officials are doubtless more serious in real life, this movie gives the impression that life is a jolly carousel of human nature, with crime - busters and lawbreakers going full circle.

On a deeper level, detached from the actual experience of watching the film, it's not unfair to question whether attributing human qualities to whales creates a myth about them that obscures their true nature.

There are huge problems with getting unbiased measures of extreme events — especially events linked to actual impacts on humans and nature.

Given human nature over that hundred plus years of records, it is highly likely that all the foibles and faults of those thousands of observers and their measuring equipment will through sheer numbers and bulk have about evened out to a neutral point around which the real actual temperature will be centered.

Despite the impersonal nature of modern employment advertisement, you must remember that every single position you come across is posted by, and reports to, an actual human being.

But that would require some kind of skeptical forward thinking based upon the knowledge of actual displayed human nature beyond the initial «in - the - bubble» short - sighted OREA group - think bureaucratic thinking style based upon wishful thinking Pollyanna fantasy theories of human nature.