Sentences with phrase «from human attitudes»

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I see Orthodox Christians living in dirt poor conditions who to their deaths from ISIS with an attitude that transcends the worst of human behaviour.

My main point has been to suggest that, apart from «work,» the activity of using the world to satisfy human wants, mankind has devised or stumbled upon other activities and attitudes towards the world, the activities I have grouped together as «play.»

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

If we are capable of extinguishing ourselves and most, if not all, other life, metaphors that support attitudes of distance from, and domination of, other human beings and nonhuman life must be recognized as dangerous.

The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.

It encourages a sense of distance from the world; it attends only to the human dimension of the world; and it supports attitudes of either domination of the world or passivity toward it.

It is the very old attitude, described at length in the Bible, of human pride, which has always tried to break away from God; it is the «will to power.»

Both believe that human existence apart from «grace» can only culminate in despair, and thus both have developed a fundamentally hostile attitude toward the modern consciousness.

Alfred North Whitehead brilliantly defines the human body as the primary field of human expression.14 So every bodily action becomes symbolically the incarnation of a human attitude in the whole gamut from ecstatic fulfilment to boredom and despair.

The author holds that the most unequivocal way in which Wesley was liberal was in his insistence on human participation in the process of salvation A second respect in which Wesley was clearly liberal in his own time was his attitude toward those with views differing from his own.

Indeed, no such abbreviated statement as we here are making, with a few quotations from the Hebrew Psalms, can begin to do justice to the Psalter as a compendium of all the moods and attitudes, conflicts, desires, and aspirations of the human soul in its relationships with God.

Similarly, human ways of responding to other human beings are not disconnected from beliefs and attitudes about the natural world.

But they reveal perhaps more clearly than the Graham preaching that, even with sophistication updated, there has been no change from the nineteenth century's revivalistic attitudes that are out to make sales and are intensely suspicious of genuine human encounter.

When, speaking informally of two human beings, we say one thinks the other is God, and worships the ground he walks on, we are summing up many thoughts and actions, and although the cases are not quite parallel, to say that Christians believe in the divinity of Christ is to sum up beliefs, attitudes and practices which may vary slightly from one Christian or group of Christians to another.

The macrocosm of human collective consciousness is regarded as inseparable from the microcosm of individual thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs.

From this point of view there developed the further attitude that this «call» to «supernatural life» was actually «unnatural,» i.e. some kind of contortion of human life which should be rejected.

He feels thoroughly satisfied with a religious attitude derived from the human imagination because he believes that all men everywhere are naturally good.

Weak human nature will not let us believe in the promises of God with a confidence that purges from the soul the anguish of fear and unbelief, the Anfechtungen... Therefore, in Luther's discovery of justification the Christian was liberated from the self - imposed requirement to present a perfect mental attitude to God, to confuse belief with knowledge, faith with the direct intuition of an observed world.

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

The well known principle extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, or the most notorious position of Boniface VIII, «Furthermore we declare, state, define, and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff,» are but further indications of this exclusive attitude - dominant but by no means universal - of the Church which separates Christians from all others.

Today we have to change our attitude from that of description to that of appreciation; we have to ask whether the fruits in question can help us to judge the absolute value of what religion adds to human life.

Katz has identified four major functions served by attitudes within the human personality: (1) the utilitarian function, by which certain attitudes enable maximization of rewards and avoidance of pain in adjusting to one's environment; (2) the ego - defensive function, by which specific attitudes protect the ego; (3) the value - expressive function, by which particular attitudes provide satisfaction from personal values and self - concept; and (4) the knowledge function, by which certain attitudes satisfy the need to structure and understand one's universe.

They may have been few in number but they offered sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any circumstances, to choose one's own way.»

The key is to appreciate the fact that the antinomies are not necessary but of man's making: «They did not come from the things themselves but from an automatic transfer to speculation of habits contracted in action, and what a careless attitude of the intellect had done, an effort on the part of the intellect could undo; this for the human mind would be a liberation» (CM 71).

Schumann is right enough when he says that it is impossible «to have a formal analysis of human existence which can be detached from every «existentialist» attitude, from every actual disposition to one's own existence», and that «no existential analysis can be achieved in complete detachment from the understanding of existence which is presupposed, accepted, and applied».

He's NOT god he's NOT infallable, fine we are all only human but to deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wages.

Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor, reminds us: «Everything can be taken from us but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.»

Each of the motifs that make up the corpus of adinkra symbolism has a name and meaning derived from a proverb, a historical event, human attitude, ethology, plant life - form, or shapes of inanimate and man - made objects.

After documenting the growing partisan gap in support for environmental legislation in the U.S. Congress, it presents data from The Gallup Organization that shows an increasing gap between self - identified Republicans» and Democrats» attitudes towards human - caused climate change.

The section, which was part of the unedited chapter on public attitudes toward science and technology, notes that 45 % of Americans in 2008 answered true to the statement, «Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.»

Levin also hopes insights gleaned from the model will help scientists grasp the origins of collective human behaviors, such as the emergence of social norms and attitudes about important issues.

Harpending theorizes that the attitudes and customs that distinguish today's humans from those of the past may be more than just cultural, as historians have widely assumed.

In words that no doubt represented the attitudes of most of the inventors of the technologies described in the following pages, one inventor of prosthetic limbs bluntly stated «the bent of human ambition is for the acquisition of money instead of a few plaudits from the world.»

This is an attitude that some sincere climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global warming describes.

This theory from social science provides general approaches, not framed mathematically, to account for several distinct aspects of human behavior including attitudes towards impacts of behaviors, perception of social norms, and perceptions about the capability for behaviors to be effective and to have impact on controlling a system.

Each of us experiences the world uniquely (meaning, your perception of reality is fundamentally different from everyone else's) because every human possesses a different combination of physical brain function, memories, beliefs, and attitudes about him - or herself, others, and the world.

And from another post: «The Paleo community attitude is certainly strange because there is evidence to show that humans in the Paleolithic period actually did eat legumes — and significant amounts at that — at least in certain locations and in the relevant season eg http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440304001694.

Her pragmatic attitude to the industry stems from her belief that fashion reflects and inherent aspect of the human psyche.

Irrespective of being committed in the UNHCR activities and human rights promotion in general, the first post-apartheid Minister of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) declared that the spirit, object and purport of the RDP will not be realised if non-citizens who are pouring into South Africa would be allowed access to the national resources.27 Again, this political attitude was, in 2011, reflected in the statement of the chairperson of the DHA Portfolio Committee, Ms Maggie Maunye, in which she stated that «foreign - nationals coming to South Africa are using up national resources and prevent citizens from enjoying their freedoms ’28 Even though she apologized, this statement reaffirms the spirit of government.

During this lesson from the Equality and Human Rights Commission students start to think about how their attitudes and opinions are influenced.

I'm pretty sure that attitude will keep companies from getting the most out of potential human capital out there.

Viktor Frankl, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, said in his wildly popular book Man's Search for Meaning, «Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.»

«The third critical period, from 49 to 84 days of age (i.e. 7 to 12 weeks),... found to be the best time to form the man - dog relationships, and an attachment by the puppy which will permanently affect the attitude of the dog to human beings and his acceptance of direction and education.»

I knew before I had the oxygen that he was special, he is almost human, it is so hard to explain his attitude, it's almost like he knows what I am thinking, he was certainly sent from heaven.

From the comfort of the window of your house or apartment, perhaps the cat will be able to observe the coming and going of the birds and wildlife that are outside, and any human who realizes this will notice the peculiar attitude that their feline companion adopts.

Drawing People rewards through its eclectic mix of artists using drawing as their base, and may inspire an expanding attitude towards the human figure from artistic readers.

1980 A Sound Selection, University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, US; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, US Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US The Norman Fisher Collection, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, US Pier and Ocean, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Kroller Moller Museum, Otterlo, NL The Human Attitudes and Functioning of Art, Galeria Remont, Warsaw, PL Contact - From Contemplation to Agitation, Palace of Art Krakow Szezepiorski, Krakow, PL Die Sammlung Panza di Biumo, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, DE Language in the Visual Arts, William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, US Inaugural Group Show, David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, CA Minimal + Conceptual Art aus der Sammlung Panza di Biumo, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH Group Show, David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, CA

This is an attitude that some sincere climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global warming describes.

Humans adopt attitudes and perspectives from each other and, often, like to hang out in groups, mentally as well as physically.

To see the relationship between extreme weather and public attitudes on human - driven climate change, check out the latest report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication — «Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind April 2013.»