Sentences with phrase «human analogies as»

I will use human analogies as well as dog to dog examples in order to teach you how to understand your dog.

Not exact matches

for arguments sake... the blogger supposed a God of the Bible... and likened that to a human being genetically creating humans... it is no way a good analogy as again... the bIble shows a peson having a spirit..
The universe is a body, to use a poor analogy from our own experience, but it is not a human body; rather, it is matter bodied forth seemingly infinitely, diversely, endlessly, yet internally as one.
The human analogy of the father and the prodigal son is taken as the key to understanding the atonement.
«The institutions of men are, by analogy, the sacramentalisation of society in the natural relations of men one to another, and thus even the civic institutions of men, to be totally focused, must embody something of this underlying relationship to God as the source of human truth and the dynamism of natural human happiness.»
Gregory of Nyssa, (c.330 - c395), who was bishop of Nyssa, but exiled for a time by the Arian party» used this analogy: «We may be confronted by many who individually share in human nature, such as Peter, James and John, yet the «man» in them is one.»
Although the Song of Songs praises human love, and nowhere mentions deity, some, especially medieval mystics, have not hesitated to use it as an analogy for the relationship between the soul and God.
In the years since, as the means of human destruction have grown ever greater, and the extent of humanity's willingness to deny the world has become ever more apparent, the profound truth of the analogy has also become increasingly evident, and its connection with democratic aspirations even stronger.
If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.
Nominalists share with Scotus the voluntarist understanding of divine and human will, the unboundedness of possibility, the view of creation as an order imposed by God's arbitrary will, and the rejection of the doctrine of analogy.
In only a few short paragraphs, Alison provides a compelling account of analogy as God's way of subverting the human story of violence from within» analogy depends on God's refusal to be rejected by his creation.
In his view faith understands itself as the pure gift of God, a God who is imaged as acting from above and may be thought of by analogy with human persons.
I used this analogy earlier in my attempt to get at the significance of Jesus as what has traditionally been called the incarnation of God in human existence.
[5] In particular, our understanding of creation should not be based on the analogy with a human craftsman in as much as he always works with what already exists.
Stated precisely, the analogy is that God is to the world as the human mind is to the human body.
From this viewpoint it makes good sense that Whitehead describes the actual entity in categories of subjectivity and thus makes methodic use of the analogy of human subjectivity.34 For actual entities are not to be treated simply from the outside, as objects to which other objects stand as past, simultaneous, or future.
When we speak of Christ's suffering as a disclosure of the spirit of God, we go beyond what any human experience can prove, but we find analogies in experience which become luminous in the life of faith.
Another apt analogy is that of the human mind as an empty bucket about to be filled with the water of knowledge.
In the relational vision, the human mind is not merely the passive recipient of knowledge and information, as in our analogy of the empty bucket waiting to be filled with water.
If all is to be conceived by analogy with our human nature, then either Spinoza is right and the eternal, immutable essence of the cosmic soul necessitates everything in the cosmic body, and there is no chance, randomness, or genuinely open alternatives either within the world or as between this and other possible worlds; or there is freedom both in our decisions and in God's.
What Nygren has shown is that the Reformers» doctrine of the gracious love of God as utterly beyond all calculation and analogy with human love establishes an aspect of New Testament faith which helps to shape every Christian perspective on love.
«22 He acknowledges that the term is somewhat misleading, because the ultimate unit - experiences are not the same as the traditional concept of the human soul; but he is content to employ it because of some analogy of feeling - experience between human souls and the actual entities.
The invocation of Hobbes and Aquinas as thinkers who employed an analogy of the body politic to the human body (or the human person) doesn't help matters, either.
His descriptions evoke the complex relationship between their respective processional paths, the architecture encountered along the way, the recollection of Rome's Imperial and Christian history, the reality of Rome itself as a Christian reliquary and pilgrimage destination, and the analogy between the human body and the city.
The relation of a human agent to his acts would be taken as an analogy for the relation of God to cosmic history.
My personal preference (though again, it is a bad analogy) is how we as humans consist of body, soul, and spirit.
Take, for instance, St Augustine's use of a human being's mental capacities as an analogy of the processions of the Divine Persons in the Trinity: just as the Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, a concept in the human mind is conceived (or born) in the intellect and from this breaks forth a movement of love in the will.
Here Enns introduces a controversial and intriguing analogy to help us understand the nature of Scripture: As Christ is both God and human, so is the Bible.
As for Jesus himself, his human power of imagination was fully alive and in harmony with what we may by analogy call his divine imagination or creativity.
They may be regarded as precursors of human creativity, and point to the existence of unsuspected potentials in the organism which are dormant in the normal routines of existence but emerge in response to new challenges offered by the environment — a zoological analogy to Toynbee's paradigm of Challenge and Response.
In keeping with Whitehead's premise to start from human experience in the world, I propose as a model for revelation an analogy with the physical phenomenon of resonance.
While, to be sure, the technical use of the word society has certain analogies to the functioning of human societies, these analogies are not complete and, as we shall see later, break down.
For it denies that there is any analogy between divine and human goodness themselves; it asserts only that divine goodness is to God's nature as human goodness is to man's nature — in other words, that each is good in away appropriate to its own nature.
I preordered through Amazon but am too tech dense to figure out how to photo the receipt, so here is a cut & paste: Items Ordered Price 1 of: Gluten - Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread: (Biscuits, Bagels, Buns, and More), Hunn, Nicole Condition: New Sold by: Amazon.com LLC $ 14.78 So many bread memories, no wonder bread has been used as an analogy for human love and nurturing for centuries.
As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.
Berlyne, author of an interesting but very mechanistic theory of experimental aesthetics, finds himself the keynote speaker in a chapter which, after some elementary physiology of the human eye, is almost entirely metaphysical, discussing at length the absolute truths expressed in mathematics and, by analogy, in music, and posing the question as to whether God did or did not put them there for mathematicians and musicians to find.
To drive home his point about humans, Nunez uses what he describes as the «absurd» analogy of snowboarding.
As in the human language analogy, the critical feature is the merge operation.
Mighty Aphrodite's affectionate Greek chorus is the obvious point of analogy, and so we expect another heavy, forgiving sigh about human foibles, this time in the eternal city, as per Allen's European funding.
In one canine research conference, a comparison of electro - convulsive therapy (ECT) used to treat depression in humans and shocking a dog to decrease an undesirable behavior was put forth as a viable analogy.
She has created her own crew to explore the deep sea, where, as an analogy of the human condition it is a true place of the unknown.
As you all recall, the books talked about man as an infectious disease, or cancer, and, that nature will eventually select against a species that destroys the climate stability that enables it to survive.As I recall, the analogy was similar to the human body getting a fever to destroy an infectious agenAs you all recall, the books talked about man as an infectious disease, or cancer, and, that nature will eventually select against a species that destroys the climate stability that enables it to survive.As I recall, the analogy was similar to the human body getting a fever to destroy an infectious agenas an infectious disease, or cancer, and, that nature will eventually select against a species that destroys the climate stability that enables it to survive.As I recall, the analogy was similar to the human body getting a fever to destroy an infectious agenAs I recall, the analogy was similar to the human body getting a fever to destroy an infectious agent.
And even if someone chooses to apply the analogy to the Holocaust, it would be an expression of the alarming danger of the situation we are leaving for the next generations, involving threats to human survival, as well as animals and plants.
I prefer the analogy of humans with immature teenagers rather than humans as cancers.
George Mobus touched upon «the analogy of humans with immature teenagers rather than humans as cancers.»
George Mobus (# 11): «I prefer the analogy of humans with immature teenagers rather than humans as cancers.»
It's no surprise, therefore, that when scientists began to wrestle with the potential impact of human - generated greenhouse gases, they often used Goldberg's machines as an analogy.
Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).
These reasoning by analogy of the earth as a complex machine that is tampered by human activity with betrays some unproven and untrue assumptions:
I think it's pretty clear that the Hyena in Ross K's analogy wouldn't qualify as a «value broker» but in the human world it can be just as unclear who might.
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