Sentences with phrase «fundamental nature of human being»

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However as my exposure to your writing increased I started to think that what you were describing as «Church» related problems were in fact fundamental characteristics of human nature.

Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

The problem is that a basic tenet of classical liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world by «liberals,» as well as by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles of human nature and morality are not a threat to social and political life.

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

When, for example, at first in the 19th century down to Pius XII the Church adopted a very reserved attitude to any inclusion of the human bios in the idea of evolution, that was motivated, and rightly so, by a fundamental conception of the nature of man which for good reasons required to be defended.

The series» second major idea is that the Stone Age adaptations bequeathed to us a shared human nature that is fundamental to both our scientific understanding and our sense of moral challenge.

«Work,» the authors write, «is much more than just a need to keep busy or bring home a paycheck... [It] is a fundamental dimension of human existence, an expression of our very nature.»

It is Whitehead's merit to have described the fundamental continuity running all through the world of nature, from its most rudimentary forms to it most complicated and highest development known to us in the mental life of human beings.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.

The fundamental law of human nature can not be broken.

Such an account is inevitably conditioned by the historian's scale of values and by his fundamental convictions about human nature.

The fundamental nature of becoming, and human life, is will to power.

It was, more precisely, based on a thinking through — although, in a way, a distortion — of Locke's fundamental premises about human nature by Rousseau.

The new structure will deal with what is most fundamental in our human identity: male and female equality, their social roles, the nature of their differences and relationship.

Religion and state are only partial expressions of the one fundamental alienation of the human being from nature and are bound to disappear simultaneously with their cause.

Given His onto - logical primacy, in his uncreated Personality and his created body and soul, it would be il - logical, in the deepest sense of the term (i.e. contrary to the Logos), if the conception of the Creator's human nature were subject to that creaturely power of co-creation by which new creatures are brought into being, for this is a fundamental aspect of human procreation.

Similarly, Charles Birch of Sydney spoke on «Creation, Technology and Human Survival» and told the Assembly that our goal must be a just and sustainable society; and this demands a fundamental change of heart and mind about humankind's relation to nature.

This is the heart of what came to be known as «the social question,» which raises fundamental queries about human nature and the possibilities for pursuing life in common.

The fundamental inadequacy from which the other weaknesses are derived is his impoverished view of the nature of human beings.

The problem in contemporary culture is that a large proportion of society is increasingly blind to the fundamental structure of human nature and to the ethical character of human sexuality.

Genesis thus affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature.

Indeed, if marriage is not simply another economic institution determined by the laws of the market, but a fundamental human institution that corresponds to our nature as self - giving and procreating persons, marriage remains a vital institution for all people, whatever their income and economic interests.

Whereas the Harvard group would respond to particular extreme cases of environmental problems, the WCC group would ask for a fundamental change in the way human beings look at nature.

A key task, then, which twentieth - century Catholic theology largely ignored, is to show the fundamental compatibility of the modern natural sciences with a deeper philosophy of nature and a metaphysics of the human person, one religious in orientation.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

Unless this fundamental agnosticism about human nature is effectively challenged, the momentum of the anti-life movement would appear unstoppable.

In the case of the human person and God, the relationship is a personal and fundamental one implying that grace is given gratuitously and is somethingsupernatural: that is to say, it is not something that is constitutive of human nature but transcendent whilst at the same time being what human nature was made for.

Concentrating on current problem, Popieluszko always took note of the largest issues involved such as the nature of authority and government, justice and the fundamental human right to freedom and believed that the root cause of the problems of Poland was the exclusion of God from its socio - political life and in the governing process.

First, there is a fundamental commonality of human beings in that our nature can be understood and described in neuroscientific and neurochemical terms.

The understanding of human nature as a predisposed tabula rasa informs us that survival is the most fundamental human instinct coded in our genetics and that, when imperiled, it is likely to trump everything else.

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Exploring the nature of well - being, the research Powdthavee reports probes fundamental aspects of the human condition with endearingly crude instruments.

Opinion is closely divided when it comes to the fundamental question of whether these potential developments are «meddling with nature» and cross a line that should not be crossed, or whether they are «no different» from other ways that humans have tried to better themselves over time.

In an era of wrenching human struggle under the heels of military might and the horrors of World War I, the experimental proof of the correctness of Einstein's notion of gravity and curved space showed the world that there were fundamental truths to be learned about nature and that the human mind and spirit could rise above all.

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.

Furthermore, nanotech could change the fundamental nature of what it means to be human.

The new work in Nature Communications overcame fundamental barriers in utilizing LED technology on monolayer semiconductors, allowing for such devices to be scaled from sizes smaller than the width of a human hair up to several millimeters.

Cytogenetic analysis now extends beyond the simple description of the chromosomal status of a genome and allows the study of fundamental biological questions, such as the nature of inherited syndromes, the genomic changes that are involved in tumorigenesis and the three - dimensional organization of the human genome.

The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things; to pursue the high - risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort; and to harness these insights to create biologically inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things; to pursue the high - risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort; and to harness these insights to create biologically - inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

Get the fundamental aspects of human nature and be reminded of the simple truths that we all know but hardly acknowledge.

«It's based on a fundamental principle of human nature — and that is we all, at least initially, want to be with someone who we find attractive,» said Greg Hodge, Managing Director of BeautifulPeople.

«Beautiful People is based on a fundamental principal of human nature,» Hodge said, explaining that people only want to date someone they're attracted to.

But computer - based learning needs to grow out of years of concrete experience and a fundamental appreciation for the world apart from the machine, a world in which nature and human beings are able to speak for and through themselves to the child.

After all, greed is a fundamental part of human nature.

One of our biggest influences is Warren Buffett, who stresses that predictions about the future should be based on an understanding of economic fundamentals and human nature, not on historical returns, correlations and volatilities.

Room Armonia (Spanish for Harmony), a hotel - style room with a private bathroom, is named after one of Bodhi Surf + Yoga's fundamental beliefs: the importance of harmony with nature, peacefulness amongst human beings, and the unity of all things.

They are expressionist forms of horses, birds, forests, flowers which hint at an underlying violence and passion that Surrealists believed was fundamental to human nature.