Sentences with phrase «define human existence»
The Bultmannian idea of personal history that defines human existence and its authenticity are criticized by Eliade.
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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.
In 1992, in the Casey opinion which confirmed America's unlimited abortion licence, Kennedy wrote that «at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life»....
However vigorously the Catholic Church defends human reason, a necessary presupposition of freedom for love, even defining that reason can know with certitude God's existence, the reason envisaged can not be a deterministic reason that would banish all ambiguity and freedom.
«Adam is not defined by an essence since for human reality essence comes after existence.
Voegelin explicates the noetic core as the experience of the push - pull of the «golden cord» wherein life is gained, and awareness of existence in the «In - between of human - divine participation,» and the understanding of divine reality inherent in the tension defined as question and answer (the philosopher's quest).
To define compassionate as «not giving me an ultimatum» or «understanding why I rationalized away His existence» seems to assume a human right / capability to define what God is or isn't and what He can, can not, should or should not do.
In another sense, it is also true to say that existence precedes essence, and the metaphysical view is consequently wrong in denying it, for essence in this case is defined within the world of interpersonal relationships, within the world of history and human society, within the world of reason itself which Teilhard would call the noosphere.
The libertine guardians of the sexual revolution brook no dissent from the idea, so famously articulated in Casey vs. Planned Parenthood, that «at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»
It's this whole concept that humans bound to the natural world can somehow define and prove the supernatural existence or lack thereof.
In face of this growing dominance of economics over other aspects of human existence, traditional Western political categories — those which define a body politic in which the people in dialogue hammer out conclusions that express their values — need to prove their relevance all over again.
Christian ethics is defined as the systematic study of the way of life set forth by Jesus Christ applied to the daily demands and decisions of human existence.
If God is love the image of God in man defines the forms of love in human existence.
Kennedy is the same justice who gave out in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) that «At the heart of liberty, is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»
As to their presuming to set their destination, surely the editors can not complain about that, since they so strongly agree with the Supreme Court dictum in Casey that there is no higher truth than «the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»
A trust in God's promise leads away from earlier styles of human existence defined simply by the seasons.
But in order to define God, the Something which underlies human existence and welfare, a new kind of science is needed.
Judge Miner, writing for the majority in the Second Circuit, asked: «What concern prompts the state to interfere with a mentally competent patient's «right to define [his] own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life,» when the patient seeks to have drugs prescribed to end life during the final stages of a terminal illness?»
It took the Supreme Court a mere twenty - five years to make this premise explicit, in the famous «Mystery Passage» of the 1992 Casey decision: «At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»
Agape has for Niebuhr qualities of ecstasy which define «the ultimate heroic possibilities of human existence (including of course martyrdom).24
The battle cry is this war was notoriously formulated by Justice Kennedy in the Casey decision upholding the abortion license in America: «At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and human migration.
What's at stake are profound, and defining, human preoccupations: Is there a god or gods, and does your existence matter to Them?
A style that is the most ancient and traditional is a scientific amalgamation of two qualities that define the foundation of human existence — Ha (the Sun) and Tha (the Moon).
Shannon takes as his subject, and medium, the elemental forces of the universe that define the basis of our existence, and presents them on a scale perceptible to the human mind.
Integral to defining the aesthetic possibilities of video, one of Bill Viola's (b. 1951) rarer sound works, Presence (1995), offers a sensitive interpretation of human existence.
I am not a subscriber to the «great Man'theory of history, I favour the idea that the pressures of human desire, experience and history culminate occasionally in one individual whose socio - historical importance is inevitably (as humans) defined through the base circumstances of their physical and temporal existence (i.e. the thing we think first about Einstein is the hair and the tongue, right?).
His text, which offers a poetic meditation on the nature of human existence and artistic expression, suggests that a person — defined in political and aesthetic terms — is always «less than one.»
At a moment when human life is still defined by biological limits and life spans, these artists remind us that we are on the cusp of technologically augmented existence, in which consciousness itself will be altered.
They defined what they called depletion zones — drylands, thawing permafrost and degraded land — that would be unlikely to support human existence.
A drawback of using 1981 — 2010 to define variability is the existence of rapid global warming during that period, a trend that is presumably a human - made effect (4).