Sentences with phrase «as upon reason»

These intents, informing theological method, can yield a theological language whose foundation depends as much upon its imagistic content as upon reason.

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The reason so many companies were able to get away with violating the law (because it really was so clear that Connecticut employment lawyer, Daniel Schwartz, described the ruling as «far from shocking,» on Twitter) was because interns didn't want to complain because they were afraid they wouldn't get any internships, which then lowers their chance of getting a real job upon graduation.

It shall be unlawful for any broker, dealer, or exchange, directly or indirectly, to make use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce for the purpose of using any facility of an exchange within or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to effect any transaction in a security, or to report any such transaction, unless such exchange (1) is registered as a national securities exchange under section 6 of this title, or (2) is exempted from such registration upon application by the exchange because, in the opinion of the Commission, by reason of the limited volume of transactions effected on such exchange, it is not practicable and not necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors to require such registration

Well, to sum up today's call, we obviously had a good quarter, and we're optimistic about our second quarter as the reasons for our restored sell - through and momentum are simple: One, we've removed Session from our lineup and restored our proven HERO form factor, now with touch displays, to the $ 199, $ 299, $ 399 price points that GoPro's brand was built upon.

«The vesting of each executive's awards will accelerate upon termination of his employment for any reason (including a resignation for good reason) other than cause, death or disability (as such terms are defined in such executive's employment agreement) if such termination takes place upon or within two years following a change in control (as defined in such executive's employment agreement) that occurs during the term of his employment agreement and such executive signs a general waiver and release that has become effective.»

For these reasons our research is focused upon what we believe to be a more elegant solution of identifying securities we can own that profit from disorder as simple unleveraged longs.

Making early withdrawals for any reason «isn't ideal,» says Weckbach, and should be viewed more as a last resort due to the damage they can inflict upon a retirement nest egg.

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

3) There is no reason why religion should hold a monopoly upon morality, and I would go so far as to argue that any morality which is based on religion is always going to be weaker than a secular morality.

Second, the discipline of critical history, as Martin himself acknowledges, depends upon bringing forth publicly accessible evidence and employing modes of reasoning that are commonly accepted in everyday life: in newspapers, law courts and inquiries of many different sorts.

This could be one of the reasons for why pastors have deep personal friendships — the spirituality of Protestant ecclesiology largely sees personal / dyadic friendships as preferrential — and for years upon years, spirituality focused on sermons, quiet times, Bible studies, etc. in the church.

That so to reason and so to perceive requires a great relearning which is never completed in their lives; that for the most part they do not reason and interpret on the basis of the new premise but on that of the old; that they tend to interpret the action upon them by which they are and by which they cease to be as inimical or indifferent; that they respond therefore for the most part in the manner of an ethics of death, Christians agree.

Abstract thought, logic, reasoned choice and invention, mathematics, art, the exact computation of space and time, the dreams and anxieties of love: all these activities of the inner life are simply the bubbling up of the newly - formed life - centre as it explodes upon itself.

The reasons Melville should have hated New York have led many readers to imagine that he did in fact undertake an assault upon urban life in his land - based novels, Pierre (1852) and Israel Potter (1855), and such stories as «Bartleby, the Scrivener» (1853).

Q ~ The main reason for this tradition [Friday crucifixion], as far as I can tell, is that the disciples of Jesus were intent upon burying Jesus before the Sabbath arrived (Mark 15:42 - 43; Luke 23:54; John 19:31).

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

Certainly, since these faculties of the soul are dependent upon the health of the physical brain, and the brain is dying as a result of being part of the physical body, our imagination, memory, reason, and emotions are not used to their full capabilities.

atoms... all brought about by the scientific method have evidence as to their the reason why things are the way they are... NOT god... in EVERY instance god has proven not to be what it is... the reason a volcano explodes is not because the wrath of god is upon a community... we understand the process behind the event but we didn't always KNOW that.

The energy form that is life, if it is an energy does not just vanish, but there is no reason to think that the energy would remian as a coherent sentient being upon death.

It thinks that to call upon faith as an aid to reason is really an abandonment of reason, and hence unreasonable.

The main reason for this tradition, as far as I can tell, is that the disciples of Jesus were intent upon burying Jesus before the Sabbath arrived (Mark 15:42 - 43; Luke 23:54; John 19:31).

An atheist will not value an acceptance of something not founded upon empirical evidence as a good reason for an outrageous claim.

For this reason he is called in MP a participant power: his self - identity, then, is as relative to a power he draws upon to come - to - be as it is relative to the standards he is responsible to.

Because we have advanced beyond that stage, we have not had reason to be particularly worried about the «silence» the song comments upon, and so the song doesn't speak to us as powerfully as it did in 1965.

In his Confessions Augustine redirected reason inward in a fateful focus upon the content and structure of his own mind and soul, as he now experienced them — illumined by grace.

Reason came into importance in dealing with these forms, and even when it was turned upon itself and upon the soul as a whole, it had no other kind of categories by which to think than those which were achieved by this psychic act of distancing.

It seems to my perceptions that you might be having a personal identity conundrum... Speaking from experience; many folks seem unable to cope with individualized rationalizing complexities... Giving up attempting, toward understanding social austerities which encompass individualism, gives people their identification of oneness... Individualisms are set upon the relativities of quaint somberness issues in daily moderations... Religious identities are as emotionalized labels giving people an ability to pause and reflect upon judgmental reasoning... Whether or not, religious agendas are servicing and served with ever those willing to serve...

As he put it, «The law gives to capital an immense advantage in permitting its consolidation in great centralized corporations; and neither law nor justice can forbid laborers to combine, in order to protect themselves against the encroachments of capital, so long as they abstain from, that use of violence and rely upon reason and moral influence.&raquAs he put it, «The law gives to capital an immense advantage in permitting its consolidation in great centralized corporations; and neither law nor justice can forbid laborers to combine, in order to protect themselves against the encroachments of capital, so long as they abstain from, that use of violence and rely upon reason and moral influence.&raquas they abstain from, that use of violence and rely upon reason and moral influence.»

Rather than these unity - level «rational structures» being intrinsic to what «modern scientific reason» discovers a posteriori, the Pope argues that science's «methodology -LSB-... is] based» upon «acceptance of] the rational structures of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a given» (our emphasis).

Sure, God's salvation is unspeakably powerful and it is eternal (meaning that it never ends for the faithful) but God does not force it upon us if we decide we don't want it for whatever reason such as the cost of maintaining it is too high.

In speaking of science, the Pope appears, at Regensburg, to give some support for a reductionist understanding of the object of natural sciences, which process is proposed as following upon holistic «reasoning», that is metaphysics.

Karl Barth famously attacked apologetics — the attempt to offer a persuasive account of Christian belief on mutually agreed - upon grounds of reason — as a misguided task, part of the failure of theological liberalism.

Though there be critical ones thinking among the topmost branches of civilizations trees of disparagement offerings: the rooted labyrinths of reasoned deducing ways offers little minded goodness to be availed unto the soulless seekers whose only wisdom is found within travesty's demonic exuberances laying ever wastefully towards all graven worded reconciliations that the demonic do behest against many a Holy Believer in and of God's most unrighteous beneficiaries as being an unholy divider in search of disenfranchised souls to devour and chew upon...

Though critics usually look upon the UUA as a union of unbelief and uncertainty, the church body's Web site upholds a belief that «personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion.»

His point was not to say that you must choose Christianity or Empirical Humanism — rather that people should choose to believe in something: either a traditional religion that puts upon you a set of expectations to meet or a rejection of divinity that gives you a form of Atheism / Agnosticism that holds to reason as a higher truth.

The «Catch 22» — and the reason for appropriating the name «original sin» instead of simply describing these conditions as the way of things — is that personal action depends upon structures of consciousness which themselves involve seeds of their own transcendence.

And not just impossible according to our understanding of the laws of nature, which can be wrong (as with the bumblebee), but impossible according to the rules of logic upon which all our reasoning is based.

Although there are obvious affinities between my reasoning and the thought of Teilhard de Chardin, his discussion of the body of Christ focuses rather upon the individual Christian's incorporation within Christ as the Omega point toward which all creation moves.

Those who insisted upon remaining in Mecca without valid reason were to be regarded as hypocrites.

A state that was «truly founded upon the principles of atheism would be the greatest place on earth; a place of reason, compassion, logic, knowledge and beauty, where each fellow knew his and her fellows as people to be cherished, not chastised and shackled into conformity through propaganda and war crimes.»

And, by very reason of the elements involved, the process can not achieve stability until, over the entire globe, the human quantum has not merely closed the circle upon itself (as it is doing at this moment, in a penultimate phase) but has become organically totalized.

This is but one reason why many in the LGBT community don't respond to the good good news as this is the face that has been placed upon it.

For in that case the assertion of God's sovereignty would be seen as a universal truth which can by logical reasoning be made intelligible to everyone; the miracle would then be regarded as a universally accredited, extraordinary event, from which the conclusion may be drawn that it depends upon a divine cause.

Still another reason for insisting upon the primacy of the event as the category for interpreting Jesus Christ is that it is par excellence the historical category, and the reality we are seeking to interpret is essentially an historical reality.

Nor will its use demand payment of fare, and no longer will His children need travel across land or sea, no, but upon the winds of the air as like He does, and shall dwell upon the clouds in great floating cities away from the foulness of the earth's sand upon which will crawl the wicked children, and the wicked hostesses except those which He sees fit to allow to visit the cloudy cities for reasons of firm discipline... (10:45) Round shapely... (10:63) And as it is written so shall it come to pass while I do live.

The reason this effect followed upon Jesus» life and death was a matter for reflection and speculation, as we shall see; but the effect itself was a fact of immediate experience.

Be that as it may, it is clear that this need imposes a constraint upon theoretical reason: Our theoretical reason must not affirm epiphenomenalism.

But Kim now, besides seeing that he had given no reason as to why this should make a difference, adds that the epiphenomenalist might be happy to think of the mental as supervenient upon the physical and even to attribute supervenient causation to the mental.

We need to make public arguments that touch directly upon the truth about human nature as available to human reason.

Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it is WE who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»