Sentences with phrase «from human nature»

This exhibition of large scale solar photograms from her Human Nature series explores the delicate balance between life and death, nature and culture, between turning within and turning attention to the outer world.

It grows from human nature and is about how people do their jobs and live their lives.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — At last here is real humor, welling up from the heart and from human nature, instead of the crude physical comedy of Hollywood's summer specials.

They try so hard, but fail to ask the simple million dollar question: Am I implicitly assuming that female nature is substantially different from human nature in general?

It not only severs the moral life from human nature (which, for a nominalist, doesn't exist).

If, to return to that obvious and critical example, there is no «human nature,» then there are no universal moral principles that can be «read» from human nature.

He seems to presume there is an inbuilt and self - evident set of values that derive from human nature.

But most of all God treated humanity with mercy because»... it was from human nature that He had decided to take a most blessed portion for union with His divinity.»

What eclecticism and cultural levelling have in common is the separation of culture from human nature.

The identity of human nature and of every human being flows from the human nature of Christ, for we were «chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world» (Ephesians) and He is «the first - born of creation» (Colossians).

This dependence is inseparable from human nature, and he needs only to understand it in order to recover his self - mastery and organize his life on a rational basis.

Given a violently divided Christendom, the only sensible solution appeared to be to excise from political life the cause of these horrors - namely, particular theological claims - and to replace them with universally acceptable principles derived from human nature and natural law.

Natural law theorists derive from human nature and human goods conclusions about what we ought to do.

Not exact matches

By simply allowing yourself to accept reality for what it is, instead of fantasizing about human nature in such a way that you could be «rescued» from your daily circumstances, you're making a tremendous step forward.

Recent findings from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggest it's human nature — even from a young age — to favor an engaging conversation over a one - sided one.

It's human nature for people to present a good idea and then try to make sure that from that point forward, they're the sole owner and controller of that idea.

If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili... We're designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language.

The impending failure of a business is something that you will instinctively recognize deep down, but human nature may prevent you from acknowledging it.

One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

Some would say, of course, that O'Leary's religion is money; that he appeals to the worst aspect of human nature, greed, and that this in itself disqualifies him from participating in Canadian political life.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

Understanding that by nature, humans will often walk away from a system that is overly complex, modern brokers do an excellent job of supplying interfaces that are straightforward and user - friendly.

Therefore, despite being contrary to human nature, it is prudent to rebalance periodically moving money from those managers whose strategies are outperforming to those who are out of favor and underperforming.

Until that is expelled from our culture there will be a root, a tap root, for all racism, all discrimination, all cruelty, because of the nature of the human being in our culture.

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

Humans have separated themselves from nature: pollution, global warming, cities, genetically engineered food that gives us diabetes, etc..

In «My Own Life,» a short autobiography composed shortly before he died, he wrote: «I had always entertained a notion, that my want of success in publishing the Treatise of Human Nature, had proceeded more from the manner than the matter, and that I had been guilty of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early.»

Knowing right from wrong is not biblical, it is human nature.

But the great boon of Catholicism to the world is that it can also stand outside the ebbs and flows of history to see that human nature — the truth in which love appears — remains unchanged from age to age.

His psychologism reorients the search for guidance away from reason toward human nature itself and therefore favors widely distributed and long - established practices over novel schemes of improvement.

The view that we must «cook» the world to achieve God's purposes may stem from a confusion of the nature of human nature.

Fairy tales without consequence also lose the potential for metaphor — in interpretation, werewolves» involuntary transformations could symbolize countless human realities, from mental and physical illness to fear of our own sinful natures.

Nature is where life comes from, and religions make people believe that we, as humans, are special, but nature says we are not, so honestly, ALL life would have some «afterlife» if Nature is where life comes from, and religions make people believe that we, as humans, are special, but nature says we are not, so honestly, ALL life would have some «afterlife» if nature says we are not, so honestly, ALL life would have some «afterlife» if we do.

Grisez - Finnis likewise begin with self - evident first principles that are not derived from any factual propositions about human nature.

I won't give you the full quote but it talked about how church as part of active discipleship can make strangers seem less threatening, but how the pull of human nature keeps trying to take us away from that (ie strangers become more threatening).

Mark (STUPID @ $ $ h0le): Of course there could have been other motives tied into these events, you can't get away from that aspect with human nature....

Far be it from me to improve upon Pascal (or Trueman), but a robust understanding of human nature finds entertainment to be more than «legitimate.»

Let's just admit we don't know the true origin of any «creator» and understand that morals, ethics and our human nature come from a deeper nature than we probably understand, but more likely from a desire to continue the human race, survival.

The Catholic Church, to take one prominent institution devoted to the defense of human life from conception until natural death, makes no «theological» argument about the nature of the life in the womb.

Far from condoning every destruction of nature that is executed in the name of human purposes, the maximal happiness principle prescribes such sacrifice only when the human possibilities are thereby greater than they would otherwise be.

All of which is to say that this fourth view of nature and human nature contends we understand ourselves most truly by imagining neither that we stand apart from, dominate, and bend nature to our will; nor that we are some unnatural plague upon nature; nor that we are simply immersed in nature and lack both the power and the duty to superintend nature and possibly even improve it.

So to summarize the salient features of the preceding views of nature and human nature: One would place man above and outside nature; the second would make man subservient to nature, and ideally (for some) remove man from nature; and the third would place man entirely within nature, insisting also that nature is all there is.

Indeed, this Enlightenment view of nature and human nature is foundational for the industrial west (and now for everything from the global economy to the sexual revolution), in which the over-riding objective is, in the words of C. S. Lewis, «to subdue reality to the wishes of [human beings].»

Senior German churchmen have made clear that they believe something different from what's in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, whether the issue is the nature of marriage, the ethics of human love, the character of the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood, the authority of revelation, or the enduring effects of baptism.

But though I will argue for this teleological view of nature and human nature from empirical premises and from reason, my purpose here is not to debate or attempt to prove this point, but rather to illustrate how some teleological understanding of nature and human nature is a necessary premise for the idea of environmental stewardship.

And like you mentioned before, it is indeed human nature to seek validation from others.

Creating the universe from nothing, forging a union of human and divine natures, and causing the defeat of evil — each of these events would involve full ontological determination by God.

It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world god).