Thus the universal value of food is based upon the common
biological nature of men.
Not exact matches
Is the absolute demand that the physician should defend the life
of every
man as far as at all possible either the artificial and morally unreflected exaggeration
of the
biological zest for life which rational
man opposes to the true «objectivity»
of nature's action in life and death, or is such absoluteness a genuine ethical demand?
The idea was that, just as all bodies are governed by the law
of gravitation and organisms by
biological laws, so the creature called
man also had his law - with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law
of gravitation or not, but a
man could choose either to obey the Law
of Human
Nature or to disobey it.
Work looks beyond immediate consumption It is
man's effort at permanence and durability in a sense, an attempt at immortality — something beyond the limits
of the
biological process and the rhythms
of nature.
For
Man, by the act
of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware
of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control
of certain
of the springs
of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value,
biological efficiency and creative
nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work
of science, he feels himself to be on the verge
of acquiring the power
of physicochemical control
of the operations
of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths
of his own being.
In passing we understand, «
Man is not a cuckoo in the nest of nature» and there was «no biological environment for man&raqu
Man is not a cuckoo in the nest
of nature» and there was «no
biological environment for
man&raqu
man».
Nature knows
of security in terms
of biological fulfilment and parental care and protection, but only
man is anxious about his status in the universe.
The phrase is a fine combination
of old - fashioned sexism and convenient biology - speak which, by reducing human individuals to a
biological organism, «
man», sweeps away social complexities and confines debate to the simplicities
of what we often call «
nature».