Sentences with phrase «defined by human nature»

Designed to bring support to society's plight, man and robot reveal what it means to co-exist in a culture defined by human nature.

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The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

, human beings have specific features, capacities, powers, limits, and tendencies, and human nature is defined by these as expressed by human beings taken as a whole.

What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

It is generally believed that the laws, customs, and rituals by which the particular system is defined are written into the nature of things, and that the social structure is but a true reflection of the innate qualities of human nature in its several kinds.

In this notion one can see the first stirrings of the existentialist philosophy according to which humans have no given nature, but define themselves by their decisions and commitments.

Only if it can be shown that human values exemplify a basically different structure from that defined by the primordial nature of God is it true that Whitehead's God is irreconcilable with human goodness.

It shows us a radically transformed human nature, no longer defined by the twin evils of sin and death.

The community defined by these two concepts is what our human nature really craves, and what it must have if it is not to be in conflict with itself both within the individual and within society.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

Human beings are defined by things that can not be seen, things that in the nature of the case can only be hoped for.

So are the miracle wheat and rice of the Green Revolution, the technology of behavior modification proposed by B. F. Skinner, 1 and the computerized model of the global ecology produced by the authors of The Limits to Growth.2 This kind of reasoning operates within the limits of what is possible as defined by (1) the available material and human resources, (2) the laws of nature, and (3) the state of knowledge at the time.

Each particular part is defined by and dependent on the total context».42 In this ecological view of a nature which includes human beings, nothing is wholly self - subsistent.

«The only way that this uncertainty and fear can be addressed is by speedily defining all potential sources of the contamination, the nature of the contamination, the threat the contamination poses to human health and how far it has spread.»

More recently, a report by Kevin N. Laland of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his colleagues in Nature Reviews Genetics, building on an earlier proposal by Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Peter J. Richerson of U.C. Davis, argued that human culture, defined as any learned behavior, including technology, has been the dominant natural selection force on modern humans.

And even parks less besieged by visitors than Yellowstone or Yosemite are premised on ideas and laws that define human beings as outside of nature.

Adapted by Richard Condon from his own novel and directed by John Huston with a bemused cynicism and clear - eyed acknowledgment of human nature in matters of greed, love and loyalty, it stars Jack Nicholson as Charley Partanna, devoted hit man to Brooklyn's Prizzi crime family and adopted grandson of the wizened old Don Corrado Prizzi (William Hickey, in a career - defining performance).

Although uncertainties about the nature of these virtues have been raised since classical times, Gardner reveals that in an age defined by vast technological advancement and relativistic attitudes toward human nature, current trends are largely a product of postmodern...

Although uncertainties about the nature of these virtues have been raised since classical times, Gardner reveals that in an age defined by vast technological advancement and relativistic attitudes toward human nature, current trends are largely a product of postmodern thought and digital media.

When I first arrived at LACMA, Franklin Sirmans and I co-organized «Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, «which presented about 75 works in diverse mediums by artists who have made defining contributions to the art landscape from 1986 to the present.

The second and far less successful part of the show is broken into what Mr. Tuchman calls the «five underlying impulses within the spiritual - abstract nexus» - Cosmic Imagery, Dualities, Synesthesia, Spiritual Geometry and Vibrations (according to Mr. Tuchman, Kandinsky believed that «human emotions consist of vibrations of the soul, and that the soul is set into vibrations by nature»); each impulse was defined in Symbolist art and literature.

This new geological epoch is defined by the fact that the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system».

So profound has been the influence of humans, Nobelist Crutzen and his colleagues later wrote, that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch defined by a single, troubling fact: the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system.»

So profound has been the influence of humans that Earth scientists have recently declared that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch, a new epoch defined by the fact that the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system».

In the canonical statement of the Anthropocene, the proposed new division in the geological timescale is defined by the observation that the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system» (W. Steffen et al..

I emerged with my B.A. (Bugger All) in hand, but more importantly, I emerged from the process with a heightened understanding of human nature, both from a theroretical perspective as well as from an experiential perspective regarding the «indoctrination», as I describe it, of students» brains by some profs. who were hell - bent on creating new disciples of their own personal theoretically defined world views (sans any offsetting real life experience outside of the hallowed halls of academia).