Sentences with phrase «facts about human nature»

Objectivism begins with Ayn Rand's personal values, and works backwards from there to establish what sort of reality — in particular what sort of facts about human nature — would be required to prove that her values are the «right» ones because they are in accord with those facts.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

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Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

Here's the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at....

In fact, working with Barbie has taught me a lot about human nature.

As Catholics, we are allowed to know the truth about human nature - and to rejoice in the fact that medical science is revealing more and more to us about it all the time.

In fact, theologians who write about ecological concerns are united in their opinion that a holistic view of reality is basic to a responsible relation between humans and nature.

When talking about the identity of Jesus as God (before sin and the Cross) it is important to have a much bigger emphasis on the fact of the true human nature of Christ.

Even talk about a possible survival can not deny that patent fact, once we have understood the total organic, psycho - somatic, nature of our human existence.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

The understandability of the natural world is all the more impressive when one considers the fact that fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

On Aug. 3, the scientific article in Nature finally gave us some facts about the much - hyped experiments that involved editing the genomes of human embryos at the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy at Oregon Health and Science University.

In fact, the best thing about the film is when it captures what it's like to be on the side of a mountain, a sheer cliff face that really wasn't designed by Mother Nature to be inhabited by humans.

The reward for your close observation is an unexpected conclusion sure to stimulate after - movie discussions about the loneliness, economic class distinctions and the nature of humans to embellish facts and even tell falsehoods to alleviate grief.

In fact, careful records of human time budgets show that not only New Yorkers and Indians but also Californians, reputed nature enthusiasts, average only about one - and - a-half hours per day outside.

All the variables are largely unknown but it's more useful to the agenda to guess with confidence than talk about the fact that humans emit less than 5 % of co2 compared to nature (we actually have a good estimate on that).

Odd how so many here go on about energy and CO2 when in fact our problem, as Tom «Do the Math» really points out, is the unsustainable nature of human impact on the planets resources....