Sentences with phrase «appeal of natural»

Inspired by the classic structure and timeless appeal of natural limestone, Bluff will lighten any interior with its pale cream coloured base tones.

Celebrate the timeless design appeal of natural materials and ensure your home stays clutter free by stashing away clutter and laundry in hand - woven baskets and wicker laundry bins.

Don't go overboard — the warm tones and tactile appeal of natural wood make a big impact, especially in a tight space.

Panter has observed that pet food recalls have made owners much more conscious of the ingredients in all kinds of products they buy for their pets, increasing the appeal of natural, high - quality spa items.

These side effects and other problems increase the appeal of natural remedies.

Not exact matches

The idea that people could take a simple, noninvasive test and have a better, if still imperfect, sense of their long - term risk for developing certain disorders had a natural appeal to Bergh.

While cheese isn't necessarily considered a health food, its «natural» qualities are appealing to foodies who also drink wine, and to the increasing number of snackers.

Whatever its appeal, Debra's Natural Gourmet proves that even in the face of big - box competition, a tiny player can become both a beloved local business and a profitable growth company.

The beach has always been a natural draw for those moving to Florida, and its culture of sun and surf has certainly been an appeal for tech - entrepreneurs as well.

On the first of two appeals to the Ninth Circuit, Judge Rothstein's opinion ran into a three - judge panel headed by the formidable John Noonan, a prolific author and scholar who has spent a lifetime studying common, canon, and natural law.

Every last exhaustive proof reveals that everything we see and know is the result of the natural, and yet you appeal to the supernatural and metaphysical without justification.

The project of Grisez - Finnis is to save natural law by reestablishing it on a secular foundation that does not appeal directly to those metaphysical claims that modern science rejects as outdated.

blessed is the cheesemaker «very last exhaustive proof reveals that everything we see and know is the result of the natural, and yet you appeal to the supernatural and metaphysical» = > You perhaps mistook my reference to God.

And in the process he appeals regularly to what is required by logic and reason, as well as to themes of a sort of natural theology in which he makes analogies to the experiences of birth and death.

cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air.

When the prospect of a helpful superhuman power is present to human minds, through culture, socialization, revelation, or some other means, it is quite natural for us to appeal to this power to help avert or resolve our problems.

However - and here I will use examples from my own country, the U.S.A., which are easily applicable to Great Britain - the founding documents of the U.S. appeal to the natural law as the cornerstone of our political order («nature and nature's God;» «We hold these truths to be self - evident...»).

Appeals to tradition become deeply unhistorical when they treat doctrinal formulations, creeds, and confessions as if they were permanent features of the landscape, as natural as falling apples and the rising sun.

But if there is only change, and nothing is stable, one could not appeal to an enduring natural beauty to melt the icy despair of Europe.

Natural theology is that part of our religious thinking which does not appeal for its warrant to revelation, unless we speak of nature itself as general revelation.

Arkes agrees, but that's precisely the point of his book, which Prof. Smolin simply does not get: when racists appeal to natural law to justify slavery and white supremacy they employ principles that undercut their own rights.

It is true, of course, that by appealing to the freedom of Satan and his cohorts to explain natural evil, Plantinga himself, has adopted a defensive, seemingly ad hoc manner of preserving the consistency of his position.

The natural structure of Prolog programs allows us to see in an appealing manner how eternal objects and propositions are nested and related to each other and how they can reveal the form of prehensive structure in the real world.

Natural selection of accidentally favorable adaptations during a seemingly endless span of cosmic and biological time provides an account of organic life that appears to make any appeal to divine influence or purposiveness superfluous.

All measurement is not measurement of lengths on a straight line; there is a second most important measurement of intervals, independent of such measurement of lengths, the estimation of angles, or, what comes to the same thing, of ratios and arcs of circles to the whole circumference, In point of fact, it is by angular measurement that we habitually estimate temporal intervals, whenever we appeal to a watch or clock, and in the prehistoric past the first rough estimates of intervals within the natural day must presumably» have been made, independently of measurement of lengths, by this same method, with the sky for clock - face.

I am among those cited both as holding «an extravagant skepticism toward the very notions of moral truths and natural rights» and as «regard [ing] any appeal to «natural rights» — any appeal beyond the text of the Constitution — as a pretext for evading the discipline of the Constitution.»

How can anyone alert to the ecological disaster around and within us appeal to the natural and predictable rhythms of nature?

To support his claim that property is natural, Pipes appeals to biological studies of possessiveness and territoriality among human beings and other animals.

There is a place for a less rigorous and more personal explanation for the reopening of the work of natural theology and specifically for the appeal of Whitehead.

Burke is right that the appeal to natural rights, by itself, is destructive of all order.

That line of thought seems to be the origin of Strauss» appeal to «natural right,» which is allegedly both good and old and, practically speaking in most cases, conservative or establismentarian.

It will have this effect because an appeal to the imagination of the natural man in the actual world of 1935 means an appeal to national culture as the ultimate frame of reference.

In expressing his naturalism Piaget kept his theory on a level of pure immanence, unlike Whitehead, who appealed to a timeless transcendent realm of ideas («eternal objects»), Piaget saw «forms» only as the constructions of natural subjects, and he wanted to explain this construction as a process of self - regulation.

He has lodged in an otherworldliness that has seemed, whether to a Nietzsche or a Lawrence, a blasphemy against the natural creation, or in a compromise with life that has lost any creative appeal, and so deserved the apostasy of those thirsty for reality.5

In the first Report of the AEA, Ely declared that «our work looks in the direction of practical Christianity,» and he appealed to the churches as natural allies of the social scientists.

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

The neoclassical educator will appeal to the consensus of history or anthropology and say that it is «natural» for us to conform to these standards.

When interests conflict, it is natural to resort to force, since it is assumed that there is no higher authority to which appeal can be made for settlement of differences.

As a result it is true to say now, as Whitehead (1926, p. 128) said decades ago, that «It is orthodox to hold that there is nothing in biology but what is physical mechanism under somewhat complex circumstances... the appeal to mechanism on behalf of biology was in its origin an appeal to the well - attested self - consistent physical concepts as expressing the basis of all natural phenomena.

From all this, one can see that Colson's appeal to the Big Bang to show that astrophysics can not yield «natural explanations» of star and planet formation is utterly unfounded in science, philosophy, or theology.

The apostle Paul makes the very same appeal to «natural» and «unnatural,» in the context of gender roles, when he argues that women should wear head coverings: «Judge for yourself,» he writes, «Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

This allows Balthasar to disagree with Barth's wholesale rejection of natural theology but transform this overly theologized insight into a practical claim regarding the inefficacy of modern Catholic appeal to the classical Western metaphysical and moral tradition in today's secular culture.

After claiming the authority of natural law, Scripture, tradition, the previous teaching of the magisterium, and the unanimous agreement of the bishops today, the Pope appeals to his own authority as successor of Peter and issues a solemn declaration.

It is not implausible, accordingly, to account for the major sources of natural evil by appeal to creaturely freedom (along with, of course, other metaphysical principles).

Their appeals to «natural law» were appeals to the divinity of any argument reflected in the world based on the principle that what is «natural» in a divinely created world would reflect the values of the Creator.

He now reclaims the privileged position of mathematics in this ensemble simply by appealing to the success of the modern development of technology and natural science.

Sacrifice and the relinquishing of power are natural to women — ask any mom — and they are also the secret of feminine appeal.

To call something «natural» is, for many today, to enter the court of final appeal.

«The demographics of the online shopper align well with the natural and organic consumer, and the convenience and wider availability of products online appeals to an increasing number of consumers, helping to expand the reach of for better - for - you product options.»

If eating wholesome, whole foods appeals to your sensibilities, then go pick up a copy of Heidi Swanson's newest cookbook, Super Natural Every Day: Well - Loved Recipes from My Natural Foods Kitchen (Ten Speed).