Sentences with phrase «human acts»

Sexual, acts and behavior are distinctly human acts in that we can choose to engage in them or not.

This is not that different from how humans act when we meet a new friend.

So what's the best way to predict the effects of future human acts on the environment?

That is, how humans act when bonding with each other can be compared to how atoms bond too.

Perhaps, though, the most human beat in the movie belongs to one of the giant robot characters — betrayal being a very human act.

For me it was always more that I found I can't think of a more fundamental human act than the act of learning or the act of teaching.

In surviving — a natural human act, I feel I have betrayed my own children.

This said, the crucial point at this stage of the argument is to recognise the connection between the purposes of the bodily organs and the meanings of the related human acts.

Don't you perform human acts like all humans.

Yes, and we wouldn't have to spend as much money saving pets if the majority of humans acted responsibly toward them.

In this, dreaming joins those other simple, fundamental human acts that have no clear evident purpose: sleeping, crying, and laughing.

The miracles of the synoptics are often presented as human acts of compassion, done in response to faith, and to be concealed from the authorities.

As for strong subsurface ocean storage giving more time for humans their act together, that really depends how much longer this (cool surface) phase of the circulation lasts.

Things like education, scientific knowledge, and scientific examination of the way humans act and react are needed to forestall any future «nightmare» of «biblical» proportions as regards survival of the human species.

Only human acts exist, and it is the mind that creates and invents.

They are the fully human acts of the fully Divine Saviour in the midst of his community.

But more than that, Scripture reveals that when humans act upon the evil that is in our hearts, we like to blame God for our actions.

May we not suppose that when this time comes Mankind will for the first time be confronted with the necessity for a truly and wholly human act, a final exercise of choice — the yes or no in face of God, individually affirmed by beings in each of whom will be fully developed the sense of human liberty and responsibility?

The Dominican psychologist Albert Plé advanced the proposition that since the moral theology of St. Thomas has for its object human acts in their singularity, he must affirm that homosexuality does not exist.

In such language, baptism is clearly an appendage — a secondary, even unnecessary human act.

The form of the I - Thou relation remains as a means of re-entering relation, of executing anew the essential human act; but this form may block the return to the I - Thou relation through its false appearance of being itself the real thing.

Grasping the purpose of the whole order of nature is not different in character from grasping the purpose of a single intelligent human act, but it is more of an adventure.

True, this is actualized in the individual temporal, localized and motivated human act, but it can not be identified with this in objective reflection, nor is it merely the moral sum of these acts.

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Thus, for example, the Bible legitimates human parenthood by speaking of God in parental terms: the point here is not primarily that human symbolizations are employed to make God understandable (although that, of course, is the case), but that specific human acts or gestures come to be seen as adumbrations of a divine, metahuman reality.

But orginally and fundamentally, religious beliefs are systematic human acts of struggle against the power elites which dominate the people.

René Girard has attracted a great deal of attention by arguing that to avert one's eyes from the sight of the real victims is a characteristic human act.

Classical theism, despite its insistence upon the divinity of Christ, wishes to make the crucifixion into a purely human act.

Alison Thewliss: As I was saying before the Division, celebrating breastfeeding is the theme of this National Breastfeeding Week, and there is much to celebrate about that remarkable human act.

Humans act habitually more than reflectively.

To gain insight in how prosocial humans act in an everyday situation where competition may also play a role, Massen and his team chose to test the willingness to share within a highly competitive field of work, namely that in which they work themselves: science.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Again, not that there's anything wrong with telling this type of story, where, supposed, civilized humans act like anything but once they're faced with something they're unfamiliar with, but you don't do it the way this movie did it.

What they are, in essence, is a space in the ocean that strictly regulates human act...

There is a rich parallel between the surfaces we pass over on a daily basis (roads, paths, sidewalks, etc) and the surface of a painting: All share antecedent human acts of incessant mark making.

However we use the term in a more open - ended and questioning spirit, borne of an interest in the fundamental and universally human acts of sorting, arranging, and then presenting collections of objects and ideas, through which we may gain new insights and understandings of our world and each other.

(Wegman dresses dogs up as humans acting out domestic rituals, like baking a cake; Oursler renders the human body mystical and otherworldly by projecting blinking eyeballs and moving mouths onto orbs).

The difference, of course, is that the actual seeing is about an experience — an indelibly human act — while the digital image is about information, which is neutral, immaterial, and implies no commitment in the stretch between idea and painting — a point on which Greenberg and the infamous Duchamp would seem to converge.