Sentences with phrase «fundamental nature of man»

They are deep observations into the fundamental nature of man.

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He often turns to the church, especially if encouraged to do so, to explore fundamental questions related to the nature and destiny of man and his ever - present existential anxiety and guilt.

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.

Human nature, in the sense of man's basic physical, emotional, impulsive and intellectual constitution, somehow moral at the core, seemed plainly more fundamental than any particular sort of human behavior, even economic; and human nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental still.

[25] It is only right and fitting that in this process greater time and attention be paid to fundamental principles of the nature of God and the meaning of creation and man, particularly with the advent of sin.

My approach is to present a Whiteheadian view of three fundamental parts of any philosophy of religion: the nature of the world, the nature of God and the nature of man.

Since the instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature, this is one more example of the ascetic paradox.

We today stand in need of a new conception of nature, for this is indispensable to the conception by man of himself and his place in the universe, a conception of fundamental importance to every sphere of man's life and activity.

It seems, moreover, that the most satisfactory philosophy for the masses of humanity will be the one that affords the most adequate, comprehensive, and convincing answers to these four fundamental questions concerning the ultimate characteristics of being, nature, man, and God.

... 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.

A first point seems to me to be this: to overcome [the] false idea of man's autonomy as an «I» complete in himself, whereas the «I» is fulfilled in the encounter with the «you» and «we»... It is fundamental to recover a true concept of Nature as the Creation of God that speaks to us... and also of Revelation: recognising that the book of Creation, in which God gives us our fundamental orientation, is deciphered in Revelation, which is endorsed in cultural and religious history, not without mistakes, but in a substantially valid manner, to be further developed and purified anew -LSB-... fostering] openness of the «I» to the «you», to the «we» and to the «You» of God.

It is true that at the outset it presupposes a certain fundamental concept of the place of Man in Nature.

He talked about his busy year, what he remembers about making Children of Men, how much he learned working with cinematographer Darius Khondji, the reason he agreed to star in Papillon after originally being apprehensive about the project, how the film explores the fundamental nature of love, and more.

But I think religion is both scientifically and philosophically an unimportant and silly distraction from what is relevant to man's fundamental nature quo man and to nature quo nature; it does not have essential significance at all to objectively demonstrable pursuit of understanding.

Based on your summary she appears to support a myopically biased religious view of man's fundamental nature.

A man whose inevitable demeanor and presence on the witness stand, whose fundamental and unalterable and obvious nature, was completely inconsistent with the main theme of his defense lawyers — that theme being that he has a poor memory, and that he was so preoccupied with other matters that he simply forgot who told him what and when, or who he told what and when — would not take the stand.