Sentences with phrase «against human nature»

The concept of a new year's resolution is completely bogus and against human nature.

«It goes against human nature,» says Siciliano, CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com, who teaches personal safety skills to real estate professionals.

THe only aspect of human nature the left can appeal to is self righteousness; and the self righteous can only go against his innate nature of greed for so long, hence the liberal democratic experiment, being against human nature, will not last much longer and is failing even now.

We are working against human nature to some extent.»

The reason, apart from going against human nature, I believe, is because the market is not as free as you assume.

these stocks go against human nature!

It goes against human nature.

you are right that his method can be learned by most investors but it is hard because being contrarian goes against human nature.

And so, I certainly think that it doesn't go against human nature to roll out of bed unfed.

It's completely against human nature to think of our fellow man before ourselves.

This argumemt shows that atheism is actually against human nature.

bill Yes, but is against human nature..

Pro-life humanity will never go away simply because it is against human nature.

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.14

It's against human nature not to fight; it's understandable.

I understand this grinds against human nature and our perception of what is fair and just.

It goes against human nature.

Not exact matches

Kierkegaard shares with Kant the assumption that being moral inevitably involves a struggle to thwart the impulses of human nature, which by definition must tug the agent in the direction of aesthetic indulgence — and where does ethics derive the authority to make me go against my feelings?

Everyone is bigoted against somebody to some degree I think... just human nature.

It's so sad that Christianity fights against so many aspects of human nature.

Human nature rebels against self - denial.

Sin against God and nature continues to beget misery upon the human family until we each make a concerted effort to lead lives worthy of a human being made in the image and likeness of their Creator.

In fact, it goes against much of human nature, and women's self - protective inclinations used to be supported by the people and institutions around her.

In 1841, defending African men on trial for rebelling against slavetraders who had abducted them, John Quincy Adams said: «In the Declaration of Independence, the Laws of Nature are announced and appealed to as identical with the laws of Nature's God» and as the foundation of all obligatory human laws.»

He defends, against the Neoplatonists, the Christian understanding of human nature as intrinsically open to sociability such that the life of virtue should be a social life.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

When we say that a social activity, arrangement, or pattern is in accord with or contrary to human nature, we are saying that it works either with or against that grain of nature.

Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

However, there is nothing in Camus» writings that speaks against a conception of God that could account for the hierarchy of value in nature and also insure the freedom and value of human existence.

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

Adam's sin against God lost for himself and for his descendants the union with God that had been granted to him (Ibid., pp.139 - 140) and that profoundly affected their human nature as well.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

This clearly works against what we can only regard as «human nature.»

I also know that humans by flawed default will interpret the words as they morally see fit, because it is in our nature to judge others against ourselves and our own ethics, beliefs, and morals.

Regarding the first: I do not care to defend here Hartshorne's psychicalism against the criticism that it commits the pathetic fallacy (or «fallacy of mislocation,» as Shalom contends) by attributing to nature human - like feelings, actions, etc. 3 But I do wish to argue that he is innocent of trying to move from (a human - like) nature («event - cells,» etc.) to human beings and characteristically human activities.

Both describe a kind of isolated individualism that is a human construction that would require constant technological maintenance against the real impulses of nature — a world so unnatural or unerotic that people would even be repulsed by the idea of natural reproduction.

It is human nature to rebel against this.

The simplest level of conflict pits human beings against nature.

A realistic appraisal of human nature leads to a view of democracy as a dyke against the flood of self - interest, as a means of approaching basic justice in relationships between people who are by nature inclined toward injustice because they look first to their own advantage.

g) In this sense, it is right to speak of a struggle against an economic system, if the latter is understood as a method of upholding the absolute predominance of capital, the possession of the means of production and of the land, in contrast to the free and personal nature of human work.

«44 Yet over against human activity, the role of nature stands out as the focus of the agricultural parables of Jesus.

Carl Henry, for example, was able to respond to Jim Wallis's characterization of the communal, over against the individual, nature of the gospel by saying that he agreed with Wallis's communal definition.67» But Henry's individualistic view of people within human society, while allowing for the community of the church, the importance of the family, and a limited function for the state, remains largely atomistic.

Our will to transcend nature through projects of mastery mounts a rebellion against the natural constraints of the organic human body, harnessing the power of technological innovations to render it the instrument of our arbitrary will.

He does not experience some privileged humanity unlike ours, but rather enters into the natural revolt of human nature against the destruction of death.

Now believing that he truly forgave you without you doing works to earn it goes against all of our human nature.

Against this it argues for fresh thinking about the economic order, a thinking that locates the human economy in the larger economy of nature.

You can not go against the laws of human nature reflected in psychological anthropology — even laws such as liminality that apply only to a select few — without disastrous results.

The ecological basis of life, rights of people and persons, of peoplehood and personhood are the concerns which have brought us to fight against the present pattern of development because it exploits and destroys nature and does injustice to nature and human's organic relation to nature.

The doctrine that only the human nature of Jesus and not the divine nature suffered on the cross is a Catholic dogma against which the inward spirit of Protestant thought rebels.

But, he said, «the latter history of this culture is not so much a debate between these two schools of thought as a rebellion of romanticism, materialism and psychoanalytic psychology against the errors of rationalism, whether idealistic or naturalistic, in its interpretation of human nature.