Sentences with phrase «attributing human feelings»

Immediately these gentle souls started to greet one another, touching cheeks and leaning body against body — it was obvious that they not only recognized their former roommates, but (and here I'll risk attributing human feelings to them) loved one another and were enjoying the reunion of their little cat community.

Not exact matches

We generally like to be good to those we feel close to, as it protects our livelihoods — Some without reason will attribute this to God, I for one will consider it a wondrous byproduct of human development.

There are mysteries to the human condition, and the universe, but we don't feel a need to attribute them to a man in the sky but rather, give credit to where credit is due, ie, the world around us.

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.

The idea of God is really moral in its influence — it really cherishes all that is best and loveliest in man — only when God is contemplated as sympathizing with the pure elements of human feeling, as possessing infinitely all those attributes which we recognize to be moral in humanity....

Analogous to this are also feelings, consciousness, and intentions, which the child initially attributes to all beings and eventually limits to animals and humans; typically, as the previous statements about passivity and self - movement indicate, feelings, consciousness, and intentions are explicitly taken away from «things.»

«Perhaps it is just part of our sinful human nature to attribute negative meaning to certain terms in order to justify the removal of words we either don't like or don't like the way they make us feel.»

Some people's feelings about the chickens that lay their eggs are based more on attributing human characteristics to chickens than on sound knowledge of chicken psychology.

The loved object is anthropomorphised, that is attributed with human feelings.

The feeling wouldn't be the same toward an objectified brand [that is, one lacking human attributes] or an entirely inanimate object like a rock.

Critics will also say that attributing emotions towards dogs is nothing more than imposing our own feelings towards them, since they are incapable of feeling emotions like humans do.

Flanagan's primary fascination, however, lay in the hare's anthropomorphic potential; its ability to magnify a range of expressive attributes, to convey meaning and feeling beyond what he felt was possible in the manifestation of human form.

As writer friend Carl Safina puts it in his recent book, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, «When someone says you can't attribute human emotions to animals, they forget the key leveling detail: humans are animals.»