Sentences with phrase «concerns human nature»

But the final noteworthy implication concerns human nature and adult love relationships.

This Marxist proposal is too optimistic concerning human nature, for it fails to recognize the problem of sin as pride.

I'm glad that Madden agrees that we can demonstrate by reason that the pro-abortion position is incorrect and that «the claims concerning human nature offered by most pro-abortion activists are incompatible with their position.»

And that the claims concerning human nature offered by most pro-abortion activists are incompatible with their position?

I recently exchanged e-mails with one of my former students about the perennial question concerning human nature: Are humans good or bad?

In this way, the philosophical questions concerning human nature that direct the third section of the novel, though absolutely interesting, do not connect with readers as well as they might have.

Not exact matches

Graber is passionately concerned with the nature of intelligence and the human capacity for sinful or irrational choice.

The darker meditations about the interaction of human nature and democracy we find in Tocqueville and The Federalist, rooted in some ways in the perennial concerns about republican government voiced so powerfully in book VIII of Plato's Republic or in Shakespeare's tragedy of Coriolanus, these are what we need to attend to.

in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.

It has been a great concern for humanity to deal with the natural environment, for the nature has been the «source of human life» as well as the threat to it at times.

In FAITH movement we would agree, especially concerning catechesis for an age which rampantly denies «human nature» (and the spiritual soul).

However, when it comes to Man, the principle of intelligibility that integrates, actualises, orientates and is the driving force of human nature as a going concern in the universe has to be of a different order from matter.

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David [as far as his human nature went], but who was marked out as the Son of God with power [by the holy Spirit] through resurrection from the dead — Jesus Christ our Lord.»

Since human forms of relation are evidence of mind, it might appear that the social sciences are concerned only with man's mental nature.

First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.

While economics as a descriptive study is not concerned with moral issues, the facts of economic life inescapably point to the moral element in human nature.

In fact, theologians who write about ecological concerns are united in their opinion that a holistic view of reality is basic to a responsible relation between humans and nature.

The remainder of this chapter will be concerned with three other kinds of human relations — economic, political, and familial — and with what the sciences centrally concerned with them tell about human nature and its transformations.

How much the CES actually cares about «the most profound metaphysical questions concerning human existence and the nature of reality» within any recognisably Catholic perspective is, however, to put it as mildly as possible, perhaps in some doubt.

«What is required for the Incarnation is that the vehicle of human nature should exist which can be determined directly by the Will of God, and that the individual concerned should be given the office in nature and in grace to co-operate with God in a unique manner for the doing of that work.»

«In RE pupils have the opportunity to engage not only with the most profound metaphysical questions concerning human existence and the nature of reality, but also with the most pressing ethical problems of our day.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

And to the second objection, I would begin by noting that my remarks here do not concern the entirety of human experience, nature, or culture; they concern one particular location in time and space: late Western modernity.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

Not only do serious problems arise concerning time and space, but serious problems also arise when trying to explain the nature of being and acting human.

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

Theoretically, there should be no competition between professionals trained in religion and those trained in psychotherapy, for «the hitherto existing chasm between religion and psychology is somewhat unusual because... both concern themselves with human nature and behavior.»

Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned, in the affirmation that in Christ the Word (the self - expressive creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being»).

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

It has been a great concern for humanity to deal with the natural environment, for the nature has been the «source of human life» as well as the threat to it at...

l) the disastrous ecological question is due to present day human regarding themselves as God and thinking they can use nature as they wish, without concern for the future of nature and of humanity.

The creation images found in the parables of Jesus concern the role of nature in an agricultural context and «engage those fundamental layers of human consciousness at which we feel our relationship with nature.

As G. W. H. Lampe said in an Easter sermon, «As far as our human nature is concerned, when you're dead you're dead; and so was Jesus.»

For is not science concerned with the study of the invariant laws of nature, which are wholly beyond human determination?

In your excellent editorial article, you write: «There has been a long - tradition within Catholic catechesis for making a rational case for the immortal nature of men... She (the Catholic Church) needs to make a renewed case for her teaching concerning the human soul.

A moment's reflection makes clear the reason for this ubiquity of concern about human nature.

Conservatives cherry - pick those passages that support their conservative view of God based on their conservative ego, and vice versa, where liberals are concerned... and there is NO way to ascertain which is true, except on a wholly subjective, personal level, thus it will never be proven objectively, since Spirit, by it's very nature, has absolutely nothing at all to do with the flesh and whatever seems to be happening on this earth, because Spirit is completely opposite, and therefore invisible to the naked human eye, being of the mind only, and therefore unprovable.

With respect to the problem of power in relation to human sexual differentiation, I am not concerned to defend either traditional or modern versions of the roles of men and women, or to deny or affirm their distinctive natures, regardless of whether these differences are understood to be inherent or culturally derived.

The ecological basis of life, rights of people and persons, of peoplehood and personhood are the concerns which have brought us to fight against the present pattern of development because it exploits and destroys nature and does injustice to nature and human's organic relation to nature.

Strauss says that the real concern of the philosopher is eternity or not ephemeral human lives, and physicists at least typically have relied on impersonal laws of nature characteristic of matter that's neither created nor destroyed.

For all of Kaplan's concern with salvation, he has learned too much optimism from the positivists to account for the many profound failings in human nature and in the rest of nature as well.

A total pessimist about human nature might avoid scientific activity; a total optimist might have no cause for concern about its consequences.

Indeed all these ideas do become without meaning if the human person, the «I,» who is first of all concerned, is looked at from without, if the «I» is described as one can describe in general propositions the nature of a human being; if, as usually results, the individual man is regarded as a specimen of the genus homo.

Horace Bushnell was typical of almost all Victorian social theorists and pastors.8 They described human nature in dualistic terms by misconstruing the meaning of the New Testament concerning «spirit and flesh.»

«We do so out of deep human concern that if enacted, this bill would have a serious detrimental effect on the wellbeing of individuals and on the nature and shape of our society.

As far as our theme here is concerned, we can show how human society is the natural outgrowth and expression of the progressive Law of Nature as it applies to Man in history.

The men of the Renaissance began to turn away from the eternal and the absolute (as commonly conceived) and to concern themselves with the world of nature and of internal human experience.

STRAWSON: This morning, Professor Lampe, you said, «As far as human nature is concerned, when you're dead, you're dead».