Our era has rightly
exalted the human person, but it has done so by way of a one - sided view of freedom that makes moral and religious authority alien and even antithetical to our humanistic ideals.
This magisterial text faced what amounts to the direct contrast of Pelagianism which
exalted human endeavour and Lutheranism which considered humanity purely passive and grace «like some brilliant cloak of gold thrown over the human corpse by God» (Karl Adam: The Spirit of Catholicism ch.11).
The idea was affirmed by Benjamin Rush who called for a university dedicated to «those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population,
exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic, social and political happiness.»
earthquakes, and that the rise of modern science (inspired, of course, by Enlightenment values
exalting human reason over divine revelation) has rendered religion obsolete.
Exalting human rights as the epitome of social responsibility short - circuits collective judgment and stymies action for the sake of the common good.
The two schools of philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter,
exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.
Not exact matches
But when it comes to fast - growth entrepreneurship of the
exalted and peculiar variety that produces breakthrough entrepreneurs, the U.S. has done a great job of unlocking only about half of our
human capital.
Joseph Smith in the King Follet Discourse taught unequivocally that God is not eternally God but rather is an evolved
human being: «God himself was once as we are now, and is an
exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens.?.?..
«Everything - in - God» tells us that God is not so
exalted that he becomes meaningless to
human life, but rather is operative in the whole creation at every level, moving through it, working upon it, accomplishing the divine goodwill in it.
At best it has been regarded as a reluctant concession to
human sin and frailty, a painful reminder of our failure to fulfill the
exalted standards which God holds for marriage.
Both the ascetic saint and the detached sage,
exalted in various hagiographies as the true beacons for humanity, may in the final analysis in themselves prove to be poor
human models, because they are, in spite of their perfection, incomplete
human beings, static and unchanging.
The one person in a thousand who now plays a significant role in deciding
human destiny is likely to enjoy her, or, more often, his status, power, and wealth and the exercise of the skills that have led to this
exalted position.
As man
exalts God in transcendent quality, at the same time he pushes him steadily farther off from
human need.
In proportion as God is
exalted in transcendent holiness and power, he is removed from
human approach.
Juan's wickedness, by its sheer garish or stylish flamboyance, still reflected an
exalted — and not merely sentimental — sense of
human dignity.
Like Plato, and in contrast to philosophers who
exalt pure intellect, the Bishop of Hippo understood the eros of the mind» the role that love, desire, and «yearning» play in the process of
human knowing.
Both thinkers award an
exalted status to
human autonomy relative to history; humanity is regarded as a co-determining power — at least up to the eschaton.
Strong from 1885 «that the brutish ancestry of
human beings is not incompatible with their
exalted status in the image of God» (p. 75) which is true, but falls far short of an explanation.
It wants a veritable transvaluation of values, a reorientation of
human loves that
exalts above all the things of this world.
For as the author notes early on, «natural law... is less
exalted than direct divine revelation and more
exalted than merely local
human arrangements.»
Questions arise only when a method that seemingly
exalts impersonality, disinterest, and detachment is made into a cultural ideal governing all
human knowledge and life.
The least exclusive member of the
human race is also its most
exalted.
Though
humans had rejected him, God
exalted him, giving him «a name above every name.»
But to the minds of the majority our
human condition seemed finally to be
exalted by the fact that we were rooted in the fauna and soil of the planet — evolving Man in the forefront of the animals.
But if we can no longer accept the reality of a disembodied
human soul, then what does it mean to attribute consciousness, thinking powers, will and emotions to a non-physical bodiless being, however greatly
exalted?
Such a community — or communion — is a
human institution; but it is more than that, for it was established by the will and purpose of God, is sustained by the Holy Spirit, and seeks to
exalt Christ «as the incarnate Word of God to the lordship of all
human life.»
The Church has a very
exalted view of
human life at all stages, and
human secksuality.
However,
exalting the heart at the expense of the intellect, or intuition at the expense of wisdom, may spell either
human genius or
human ruin.
«Mormonism teaches that God the Father is an
exalted Man, that Jesus, angels, and
human beings were all the literal spirit offspring of our «heavenly Father and Mother,» and that the ultimate goal of the Christian life is to become
exalted to Godhood ourselves.
Therefore the more they
exalt the «absolute», the more they degrade the
human being.
And the question remains: who, among
human beings, are
exalted and who, indeed, are brought low when the socioeconomic locatedness and praxis of the historical Jesus are located, circulated and accented?
and that it ends up
exalting the role of suffering and abuse, both with God and among
humans.
If you can appreciate and accept this relationship for exactly what it is — glorious, dynamic, challenging, beautiful,
exalted, wounded, and oh - so -
human — then swept away by the majesty of a sacred relationship is exactly where you'll be.
Yogi Bhajan taught that happiness, fulfillment and self - realization is every
human's birthright, and that such an
exalted state can be attained fairly quickly and without unnecessary drama.
The globe - spanning presence of wheat and its
exalted status among secular and sacred institutions alike differentiates this food from all others presently enjoyed by
humans.
New alien adversaries also make an appearance alongside several fresh locales and a radical new opponent in
EXALT, a rebel
human faction.
Choksi's investigation of materials and temporality for accessing existential insight is augmented by meditations on hands and feet — the first tools used by
humans to move toward these more
exalted realms.
Machines will either take over many tasks or they will babysit
humans through tasks to minimize the oscillations of the
exalted but oh - so - expensive free will.