Sentences with phrase «character of human existence»

Death mirrors the two-fold character of human existence: We are molded of the same clay, yet each of us is unique.

In fact, it will be uncomfortable with the tendency of the whole «values» approach, both as description and as prescription, to impose an abstracting ideology of rationalism on the dynamic, sentient character of human existence.

The hollowness of this appeal to eros seems to be related to a failure to make more explicit the tragic character of human existence.

The specifically historical character of human existence may itself be understood as the first fruits of the divine promise of an ever - new future.

The contradictory character of human existence is not evil in itself.

In the philosophic tradition it is the idealists rather than the naturalists who have made the fullest place for this insight into the essentially social character of human existence, though contemporary naturalism as in Mead, Dewey, and Wieman has achieved a similar perspective.

There he began increasingly to emphasize the social character of human existence.

In what follows, spirit refers to the radically self - transcending character of human existence that emerged in the Christian community.

It appears in a different form partly because the problem of social continuity has become as great for us as the problem of change and reform, but even more because the historical, cultural character of human existence has come into fuller view.

Not exact matches

Given the distinctiveness of human existence and the aesthetic character of reality, it follows that greater beauty is served insofar as subhuman existence is so ordered as to maximize the possibilities of happiness.

The cross-generational character of African ethical thought is a consequence of its social conception of human existence.

Second, upon recognizing this deficiency of character, one must acknowledge the existence of a God that is solely qualified to judge the human heart.

In addition, Daly pointed toward the encouraging character of Whitehead's denial of the duality of purposive human existence and non-purposive nature (BGF 189).

The Corporeal Nature of Freedom and its Sphere Before speaking of the existence of freedom and in freedom something will have to be said about the specifically human creatureliness of freedom which will clarify the dialectical character of our relation to our own and other people's freedom.

The reality of death as a fact: the inescapable element of decision and the consequences in searching appraisal: the social or communal nature of human existence, coupled with the honest recognition that no man is in and of himself a perfect agent of the purpose of God and the love of God: the joy of fulfillment with one's brethren in the imperishable reality of God: and the terrible character of evil — these were values which the older scheme somehow affirmed and expressed.

augured a new and more disturbing understanding of mystery while showing the provisional and imperfect character of the world of ordinary human existence.

Were Dostoevsky living at this hour, he might well ask whether the American reduction of nearly every aspect of human existence, including religion itself, to either entertainment or commodification constitutes a yet worse kind of herd - existence than the one Ivan describes — a subtler and therefore deadlier attempt to relieve humanity of its suffering and sin, and thus of its real character and interest.

The premise behind this kind of character teaching is not that we should be teaching a whole different dimension of human existence, but that we've been leaving out some very important skills in terms of what makes kids happy and productive and fulfilled.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

No, I'm simply asking, which of these characters is even recognizable enough in the sphere of human existence that we might be able to think, yes, I get him / her.

The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable