Sentences with phrase «essentially human self»

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The absence of literal participation would force one to assume that the human self is not essentially social, but is rather essentially alone and capable of existing without other selves.

From its instinctively cooperative origins in human nature to the self - initiated perfection of its civilized enterprises, a civilized society is, in Whitehead's metaphysical scheme, a community of social beings who belong to one another essentially.

The force of my arguments about past responsibility or future fear is not essentially one of grounding altruism or appropriate self - interest, which I would ground in the metaphysical claim that all humans have the same essence which constitutes their unity as a class called by Kant the kingdom of ends.

Since human individuals are essentially and naturally relational, the recommendation is clearly to expand and intensify relations, as above shown, and not, against Aristotle, to transcend the need for relation by means of some supposed individual and self - sufficient activity.

The man blames his wife, and the wife blames the serpent, which here represents that mysterious factor in the human situation, which is felt to be essentially different from the true self.

In the video, I explain the significance of the blazing growth in human numbers and appetites over the last eight generations or so, and note how we are essentially in a race between potency and self awareness.

The study essentially correlates specific patterns of brain connectivity — the degree to which different parts of the human brain talk to each other — with a suite of what are generally considered positive traits, such as education, income, and self - control.