Sentences with phrase «characteristic of our human existence»

And he further commends as «the essential characteristic of human existence... «that man is an individual and as such is at once himself and the whole race, in such wise that the whole race has part in the individual, and the individual has part in the whole race» (CD 26).

Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope, those two essential characteristics of human existence which Greek antiquity ignored altogether, discounting the keeping of faith as a very uncommon and not too important virtue and counting hope among the evils of illusion in Pandora's box.

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Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

I also believe that, in spite of Whitehead's reluctance to concede privileged status to human occasions of experience, the introduction of the wide range of conscious anticipation of the future which humanity represents in comparison to lesser types of existence also introduces justice as a characteristic of the specially human aim at harmonious beauty.

There is not time here for any elaborate analysis, but I think it can be shown that a man's subjectivity is the most distinctive characteristic of the human level of existence.

Thus, even though all men are sinners before God, sin is not a universal characteristic of the existence of man or of human nature such as corporeality, nor is it some magical or mysterious quality of the sinner.

Neuroscientific insights point to three key characteristics of human nature: emotionality (we are far more emotional than we think we are, and emotionality play a central role in decision - making), amorality (we are born amoral and our moral compass is developed in the course of our existence), and egoism (we are driven to survival, which is a basic form of egoism, i.e. preservation of the self).

«In this study, we were able to observe the existence of microscopic disease and low numbers of bacteria, which would be difficult to «see» in humans but could possibly be the cause of the variable and nonspecific symptoms that are characteristic of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome.

The characteristics, key events and situations which compose the essentials of human existence.

If Johnny is considered an anti-hero to the narrative, than Jeremy / Sebastian is quite simply the anti-Christ, an individual so devoid of human compassion that his very existence in the story only amplifies the sympathetic characteristics of the downtrodden Johnny.

Therefore, Philosophy is a discipline which studies the most common essential characteristics and basic principles of being and cognition, of human existence, relations between person and the universe.