Sentences with phrase «autonomous will of man»

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Man of himself is tempted to oppose God's will, to seek to do his own will, to feel free only if he is autonomous; he sets his own autonomy against the heteronomy of obeying God's will.

The message of this book is that democratic life should be conceived not as an enterprise of autonomous men, no matter how clever they may be in organizing to pursue their interests, but as a way of realizing the Will of Heaven — that is, of doing the truth and serving the right in which man's proper being and destiny consist, This is another manner of signifying the «public philosophy» earlier mentioned.

In theoretical terms, the essence of contraception is the idea that man is autonomous and a law unto himself, and he can define the meaning of the marriage act as he wills.