Sentences with phrase «by human tendencies»

From the pristine simplicity of nature, Greene imagines an alluring reality tarnished by human tendencies.

Part of the gap in returns can probably be explained by the human tendency to panic at bad news, Professor Kelly said.

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It is instead of just another human institution with all the same tendencies as every other institution that is built by to give an elite few power over others for monetary gain.

, human beings have specific features, capacities, powers, limits, and tendencies, and human nature is defined by these as expressed by human beings taken as a whole.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the human species», is the unfortunate tendency still shown by its adepts to distort into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

And, if we know anything about human nature, we know we have a desire for certainty, a fear of being wrong, a tendency to difine ourselves by our beliefs and to identify those like - minded, the «us» of the them / us divide.

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.

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

The tendency of human nature, intensified by our commercial activity, is to make the life a whirlpool — a great maelstrom which draws everything into itself.

One of the most disturbing features about the human heart, its tendency toward jealousy, leaped out at me once in a line by novelist Gore Vidal: «Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.»

Niebuhr's inordinate emphasis on the doctrine of sin derives from the anxiety inherent in the paradox created by the conflict between man's freedom and his tendency toward the prideful self - dependency which is a universal human tendency.

Like Cone, he is addressing the racist structures of society, expanding upon Cone's work by delving into the human tendency to universalize one's own experience.

The specialization and capital mobility that are so prized by economists for their tendency to increase total production have profound affects on human beings that fall outside of the consideration of economists.

He must decide what is the kernel of the gospel, and what is merely the outward husk which has been shaped by human imagination, by traditional interpretation, by the tendency to produce credal formulae, by the subsequent historical consolidation of the truths of faith.

God is God — and by God we mean no mere stream of tendency, no evolutionary influence, no compendious noun to describe the sum of human good will, but the one almighty and eternal Reality upon whom we depend both for our being and our continued existence, whether or not we are believers in Him, worshipers of Him, or doers of His Will.

We should then remember a generic point concerning a certain human tendency to gloat over those whose faithfulness is sometimes seriously undermined by their actions.

It saw the publication of Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society, which contains basic diagnoses of tendencies in human history that are still true: One can not escape from sin by refusing to relate oneself to movements that seek to develop the power of self - defense among the powerless.

Your last paragraph ignores the difference between an evolutionary hypothesis based on physical evidence and demonstrable mechanisms versus the magical causation inferred by scientifically ignorant ancient tribes resulting from a human tendency towards teleological thinking.

Buber pointed to an essential tendency, a spiritual stance, developed by the experience of being treated, in fact and not metaphorically, as «human waste» by superior force exercised by malevolent men who intended the Jews» destruction.

The prophetic disposition sees all reality in terms of historical eventfulness — it weighs every event by its tendency to conspire with or against God's drive to shape history toward his kingdom of love and justice, and it understands that the human vocation is to participate in this struggle.

It's easy to root for winners and high - scoring games, but this basic human tendency can easily be exploited by oddsmakers.

«In other words the human brain compensates for receiving increased information from a mobile phone conversation by not sending some visual information to the working memory, leading to a tendency to «look at» but not «see» objects by distracted drivers.

The differences may be explained in part by humans» tendency to take on more specialized roles within society.

One study presented in the journal — from a group led by Patrick Singleton, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine — shows how opioids already present in the body can enhance the malignant tendencies of human lung cancer cells transplanted into mice, even without the addition of morphine.

But these days, living in the modern world, humans have a strong tendency towards imbalanced digestion so eating a lot of meat is generally not advised by Ayurveda.

History offers us plenty of examples of times in which teachings of higher purpose become overshadowed by very human tendencies — to oppress, to cheat, to dogmatize, to put one's own personally motivated pleasure seeking ahead of others.

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Unless it's complicated by something like human feeling, and a recognition of the human beings on both sides of any bloody ideological conflict, true - life heroism has a tendency to look a little synthetic on screen.

He's found it worthwhile to wonder that the broadest strokes of Noble Savage Syndrome reflect a natural human tendency to revert to the natural to valorize cultures (objects) that are ambiguous by their nature.

High - profile murders like Ramsey's often provoke gawking, callous media treatment, turning us all into rubberneckers, but Casting JonBenet vigorously works against that tendency, fascinated by our psychological need to judge other people's lives, but also deeply mournful, even respectful, of the very human reasons why we do so.

We are ruining America, notes dour New York Times columnist David Brooks, suddenly and considerably alarmed by a standard feature of American life, if not human nature — the tendency of the privileged and powerful to guard jealously every advantage they have been handed or earned.

The good news is that teachers who fight the natural human tendency to respond to stress by retreating from action and relationships can do a lot to keep stress from building into burnout.

«Retirees in Canada and other developed countries demonstrate a strong tendency to reduce their out - of - pocket spending in real terms starting at around age 70 and accelerating at later ages,» wrote Vettese, chief actuary for the Morneau Shepell human resources firm, which was founded by Morneau's father.

Johnson notes that because of pet owners» tendency to humanize their companion animals, many emerging pet product trends can be predicted by watching the market for human products.

Though initially disturbed by the unpredictability of the tournaments, the alien Empire soon realized the benefits of providing human slaves with an outlet for their more carnal tendencies and desires.

Valery Jung Estabrook questions the human tendency to categorize other human beings, either by race, culture, or gender, and how we transcend these identities.

In tracking population growth, spikes in resource appetites, and explosive change in technologies that are sheathing the planet in human activity, it's not hard to find support for the contention by Stuart Hart of Cornell that our moment is unique, that we're not suffering from «chronocentrism,» the tendency of each generation to see its time as special (in a good or bad way).

Until recently, on issues like the growing human influence on climate, many people have had a tendency to echo, perhaps silently, the comment made in 2006 by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia when he was politely corrected for mixing up the stratosphere and troposphere during arguments over the Clean Air Act and carbon dioxide:

The video, featuring the science writer Joe Hanson, explores a vital body of empirical studies on human risk misperception, showing how a rational view of long - term or diffuse threats is obscured by «status quo bias,» our «finite pool of worry,» our tendency to value tribal connections over reality through what researchers call «cultural cognition,» and other characteristics of what I call our «inconvenient mind.»

Well, largely because it is the null hypothesis, or rather, because humans have a tendency for messing up things they don't understand by acting too quickly (we have tons of economic and political examples for this), and as a general rule it is usually safer to only make small changes and only when we're pretty sure we're right.

It is due to a calculated disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry and a cadre of front groups like ALEC to make people believe the science is unsettled, exploiting the natural human tendency to do nothing in the face of uncertainty.

Data correlating «ordinary science intelligence» (as measured by a standard nine - question test), political ideology, and tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.

Taleb emphasizes that the world is dominated by the extreme [«Extremistan» as he calls it] despite «the ingrained tendency in humans to underestimate outliers — or Black Swans» and advises us: «Black Swans being unpredictable, we need to adjust to their existence (rather than naïvely try to predict them).»

In other words the human brain compensates for receiving increased information from a mobile phone conversation by not sending some visual information to the working memory, leading to a tendency to «look at» but not «see» objects by distracted drivers.

However, comparison of the amount of carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere by humans in recent years with many scenarios of future emissions, including the limits required to hold climate change below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), shows that there is not yet any tendency to approach the desired targets.

, it offers a worthwhile chance to reflect on our own tendency, as human animals, to be swayed by social forces such as celebrity.

Since the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, there has too often been a tendency to see the law in areas touched on by the Convention solely in terms of the Convention rights.

It's not a very well known fact that this tendency of human beings to move on to something bigger and better makes us vulnerable to being used by the big brands.