Sentences with phrase «description of our human existence»

Biblical sin is a description of our human existence.

Despite his breathtakingly brilliant phenomenological descriptions of human existence in Being and Time, what he calls Dasein or «being» really turns out to have nothing at its core.

In his artist statement Skarbakka references philosopher Martin Heidegger's description of human existence as a process of perpetual falling, and the responsibility of each person to catch ourselves from our own uncertainty.

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But the description of man as a rational or intellectual animal, familiar in the Middle Ages, is dangerous unless full recognition is also given to the feeling - tones which are as much a part of human existence as is human rationality.

The Bible is viewed not only as an historical or canonical document, but as a description of the individual soul's journey of spiritual development and commentary on what happens when different states of consciousness interact with one another in the collective drama of human existence.

This fact of our experience is not always given the attention it deserves, and many times descriptions of humankind are produced that suggest a quasi-morphological portrayal, as if human existence were like counting the spots on some insect or were like a diagram of a dead cat as it is studied in a biological laboratory.

In fact, it will be uncomfortable with the tendency of the whole «values» approach, both as description and as prescription, to impose an abstracting ideology of rationalism on the dynamic, sentient character of human existence.