Sentences with phrase «by human intellect»

«No mental tool honed by human intellect, curiosity and experience can long resist being dulled by simple ignorance or stupidity.»

In this paradigm the new truths discovered and grasped by the human intellect necessarily stand in a non-contradictory relationship to the one who said «I am the way, the truth and the light.»

Not exact matches

What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine with our unaided human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by faith.

Richardson is very skillful, however, in the use of selectionand evocative quotation, ensuring Newman is allowed to speak for himself in clarifying the process by which the human mind makes it possible to subscribe to an act of religious faith which is seen to be an act of the intellect.

His dualistic psychology should be seen for what it is: a put - down of the «inferior» human activities of the body, time and multiplicity by the «superior» activities of intellect, will and memory.

And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object of knowledge and of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies of the human intellect and of human intelligence, can be overcome by a biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.

In a world ruled by education and intellect, we feel like we lose credibility without our human knowledge or wisdom.

To act and know that we are acting, to come into touch with reality and even to live it,... such is the function of human intelligence... From the ocean of life, in which we are immersed, we are continually drawing something, and we feel that our being, or at least the intellect that guides it, has been formed therein by a kind of local concentration.

The notions of intellect and will or desireare schemata that we (following the philosophers of ancient Greece) impose on human life for the purpose of describing and influencing it; and the notions of faith, hope and charity are further schemata fitted on by theologians as life rises above what is natural.

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

On the other hand he contrasts his theory of becoming with Bergson's on the grounds that the latter denies to the human intellect the power to grasp pure becoming as such and by means of spatialized images to achieve an insight into its true being.

While Biel admitted that the human intellect and will were fallen, he thought they were nevertheless largely undamaged by sin.

Your blind following of tales told by farmers and goat herders has imprisoned the intellect of humans on a global scale.

Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of hiscreation» (299).

His human skills were complemented by a keen intellect, strong observation skills, and a sharp memory for facts, figures and protocols of organic standards.

The astronomical discoveries of the past century, many made by American scientists, are among the great triumphs of the human intellect, and we deeply regret any attempt to ignore them or deny them.

A psychiatrist by trade, Wendy Rhoades combines an avid intellect with a keen understanding of human nature.

Directed by Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters), this Holmes mystery is ostensibly the secret of a forgotten last case, but it's really about the human experiences Holmes is least equipped to confront: friendship, compassion, the reasons to continue living as his sharp intellect loses its edge.

For both precursors of the Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, the philosopher of the Vth century Dignana and the logician of the VIIth, Dharmakarti, the words of the language are abstract constructions created by the imagination and the human intellect.

, the words of the language are abstract constructions created by the imagination and the human intellect.

Moreover, psychologist approves that hypermedia demonstrates a notion of modelling the brain morphology into the desired form that improves human intellect than it is achieved by printed text.

In addition to SATCOM, three Capital Intellects were constructed by combining the minds of humans with powerful, mechanical bodies.

The program includes a variety of formats, including a cooking show by Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen; a show on human - animal relations in Africa and Thailand by Korakrit Arunanondchai; a «general intellects» video with McKenzie Wark; a visual essay by Aria Dean; a docu - short on «seasteading» in Tahiti by Daniel Keller and Jacob Hurwitz Goodman; a report on «reparation hardware» by Ilana Harris - Babou; a cartoon by Amalia Ulman; a docu - short on «economic utopias» by Christopher Kulendran Thomas; a fictional drama by the South African collective CUSS Group exploring the influence of technology and digital culture in South Africa; and a contribution by the Women's History Museum.

First, as I said above, the veracity of those arguments depends, to some extent, on the ratio of positive and negative externalities, as they relate to non-climate related impacts but also w / r / t the range of sensitivity to ACO2 emissions and the unknowable pace of technological development (that to some degree is affected by the groundwork laid by current - day investment of human capital, intellect, resources, and finances).