Sentences with phrase «constructed by human beings»

Quite common when the notions are constructed by human beings.
Religions are the biggest lie's ever constructed by human being's.

Not exact matches

Anti-realist ideas, by contrast, consider everything as human constructs, plastic and malleable, which can be bended and altered but which inherently are unknowable.
Right and wrong are human constructs and also determined by society.
They are not wholly dictated by natural necessity, but are constructed by the human community.
His celebrated saying that existence precedes essence, once it is translated into classical terms, means only that non-being precedes the essences formally constructed by human thought.
He is equally incisive in realizing that the engine of culture is driven on its evolutionary track by the stories that human beings construct.
Calvin asked whether human beings have a natural knowledge of God (his answer was yes); whether they can arrange what they know from nature into an intelligible pattern known as natural theology (his answer was no); and whether redeemed — and only redeemed — human beings can construct a legitimate theology of nature by reclaiming nature as a useful source of the true knowledge of God (his answer was yes).
For in the reality constructed by human imagination, the reality of a thousand national identities, foundational myths, bogus perceptions of «our» innocence and «their» wickedness, who could ever be a judge whose impartiality would be recognized and whose arbitration would be accepted?
Morality is a construct by humans in order for the society in which we are living to operate in an effective and fair (as much as we can make it at the time) manner.
With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.
An enduring and progressive democracy rests on common loyalty to a law of truth and right which is found and given, not constructed by human decision; and for the propagation and health of such democracy an educational system centered around this religious principle is required.
I am still utterly terrified - if not by the thought experiment, then by the prospect (wait a few years) of performing the experiment for real, not only to construct human beings, but completely artificial spiritual beings, not machines, designed de novo.
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.
Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»
But they misdirect that response by insisting that all understanding of God is a human construct projected onto the unknown.
His critique of liberalism, as he puts it in After Virtue, «derives from a judgment that the best type of human life, that in which the tradition of the virtues is most adequately embodied, is lived by those engaged in constructing and sustaining forms of community directed towards the shared achievement of those common goods without which the ultimate human good can not be achieved.
Freddie has written a post that forces me into the odd position of defending Sam Harris; the crux of which is the claim that once we accept the human mind as being a contingent accident of evolution, we necessarily must abandon any faith in the intellectual edifices constructed by such minds:
This new and developing form of human consciousness is still far from universal, but the world that we each create in our heads1 (our mental picture of reality) is now being constructed rather differently, by absorbing innumerable bits of knowledge and information from all over the world, not just from our own small locality.
By this is meant everything we humans have constructed with our hands, performed by our actions and thought with our mindBy this is meant everything we humans have constructed with our hands, performed by our actions and thought with our mindby our actions and thought with our minds.
He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.
Has humanity been fooled so much by Death and Death's constructs that they have forgotten their first evolutionary rule of survival that has been passed on up through the centuries of human existance?
We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»
It is fundamental to any adequate understanding of Ricoeur to note that his phenomenology is so constructed as to be open to the «signs» generated by «counter-disciplines,» and indeed to read the meaning of human existence «on» a world full of such expressions generated by the natural and social sciences, as well as in the history of culture.
I shall propose that we look at it not so much as acts or constructs performed by human beings on the face of a cosmic terrain that is intrinsically indifferent to religion, but, primarily as expressions of the universe and the earth.
It is entranced by the image of homo faber to such an extent that it makes theology into nothing other than our own human creation, and one gets the impression at times that Kaufman sees religion also as nothing but a human construct.
The LEED rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is the foremost program for buildings, homes and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance.
One of the most powerful ways we understand the experience of being human is by constructing a narrative of our lives.
Firstly, if the phrase was to be interpreted that way by the executive, why not construct it in a narrower sense, such as the human rights committee's «public emergency threatening the life of the nation»?
As a group of researchers in Germany now reports this week in Chaos, from AIP Publishing, one way to get closer to the complex wiring of the human brain is by merging concepts from a timed - based synchronization theory and space - based network theory to construct functional brain networks.
«If the canine construct is fully accepted by other OCD researchers, this spontaneously - occurring model of the condition in humans, right down to the biological pathways involved, could help point the way to novel and more effective treatments for such a debilitating condition,» Dodman says.
Here you are talking about constructing life, but you started out in deconstruction: charting the human genome, piece by piece.
Unlike the way we recall other images — for instance, a two - story red - brick house with a screened - in porch and green awnings — humans are not programmed to construct faces by components.
This construct was used to introduce the corresponding human FOP mutation R206H and the constitutive active variant of the receptor Q207D by Site - Directed Mutagenesis (QuikChange, Stratagene) using the following primer pairs (with lower - case letters indicating the nucleotides changed relative to wild - type Acvr1 sequence): R206H - chAcvr1 - fwd, 5 ′ - GCAAAGAACAGTGGCTCaCCAGATCACGCTTGTGG - 3 ′ and R206H - chAcvr1 - rev, 5 ′ - CCACAAGCGTGATCTGGtGAGCCACTGTTCTTTGC - 3 ′; chAcvr1 - ca - Q207D - fwd, 5 ′ - GCAAAGAACAGTGGCTCGCgAcATCACGCTTGTGGAGTG - 3 ′ and chAcvr1 - ca - Q207D - rev, 5 ′ - CACTCCACAAGCGTGATgTcGCGAGCCACTGTTCTTTGC - 3 ′).
Proposed IOM definitions state that «sex» is a biological construct dictated by the presence of sex chromosome and in animals and humans the presence of functional reproductive organs.
Taking advantage of this characteristic, we are developing novel devices that mimic the functions of the human brain by constructing nano - systems consisting of large numbers of self - assembled atomic switches.
To further validate that the decreased metastasis induced by double knockdown of ABL1 and ABL2 was not due to off target effects of the lentivirus - encoded shRNAs, we used a second set of ABL shRNAs (shAA # 2) and carried out rescue experiments by expressing mouse Abl1 and Abl2 constructs (mAbl1 / Abl2) that are resistant to shRNAs against human ABL1 and ABL2.
ALMA was constructed with funds, technologies, and human resources provided by various countries of the world.
Gene constructs were made by gene synthesis (GeneartAG) using sequences that were codon - optimized for expression in human cells.
Some of the research covered in the documentary includes scientists who are identifying and characterizing planets orbiting other stars (the other planets in our solar system would likely be more trouble than they're worth to make comfortable, the film argues); an engineer building a rocket fueled by plasma, the same charged particles found in our sun; and a team building a fleet of robots that could construct habitats before humans even arrive at their destination.
«While existing theories on why there is so much variation in the ability of different human populations to construct viable states are usually formulated verbally, by contrast, the authors» work leads to sharply defined quantitative predictions, which can be tested empirically,» they added.
Once there, he finds a replica London constructed out of human debris that's inhabited by rats and mice.
Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp...
It is by no means an unworthy film, shedding light as it does on an issue still with us today, but it treats the people on screen more as dramatic constructs than as actual human beings with their own agency.
That is, all three of those nonhuman characters were actually constructed by prop makers and captured on camera just like any of their human co-stars.
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Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors
Recognizing the cost of human - graded assessment There's a good reason why standardized tests — such as the SAT, ACT, and state end - of - year exams — are usually composed of a long string of multiple choice questions followed by only a small handful of constructed response questions.
It is how we think about human value that is the prism by which we must construct our education programs.
Reading is a complex construct that is composed of many different components, the most familiar of which are outlined by the National Reading Panel as the «Big 5» — phonemic awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000).
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