Sentences with phrase «human attitudes toward»

But we have to set against this the fascination of the small, so that in itself, the size of insects doesn't explain much about human attitudes toward them.

He calls for a revolution of human attitudes toward nature and even more toward other human beings.

Not exact matches

Notably, there are no significant differences in attitudes toward an FTA with China between those who believe human rights issues should be the number one priority for Canada government, and those who do not.

Rather, Defund Planned Parenthood protesters abhor abortion as a profound violation of human rights, and they believe that the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress prove that Planned Parenthood harbors a crass and denigrating attitude toward the unborn — hard to dispute.

It is as a creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.

That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.

This unique contact with the new human being developing within her gives rise to an attitude toward human beings: not only toward her own child, but every human being, which profoundly marks the personality of the woman.

After exploring current attitudes toward and descriptions of play, we will turn to three representative theological positions in hope of clarifying our understanding of the human player.

It encourages a sense of distance from the world; it attends only to the human dimension of the world; and it supports attitudes of either domination of the world or passivity toward it.

Johnston explores current attitudes toward and descriptions of play, then looks at three representative theological positions in hope of clarifying the reader's understanding of the human player — life - style, mission and opportunity.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

Both believe that human existence apart from «grace» can only culminate in despair, and thus both have developed a fundamentally hostile attitude toward the modern consciousness.

The author holds that the most unequivocal way in which Wesley was liberal was in his insistence on human participation in the process of salvation A second respect in which Wesley was clearly liberal in his own time was his attitude toward those with views differing from his own.

They cover the full range of human action and human emotions, and they reveal the Hebrew theological attitude toward life.

To preserve our humanity in the face of our attitude toward people who in warfare we call our enemies, we try to act as if they are not really human.

Sin is disobedience to the will of God; but God's will is disobeyed not only by rebellious attitudes toward him but by unloving acts and attitudes toward his human children.

While the human realm, «the moderate Aristotelian city / Of darning and the Eight - Fifteen» still remains filled with the same old drudgery, and we still remain weak, ignorant and often silly, our attitude toward the world and ourselves must remain open to wonder and possibility.

But only a weak, sentimental, shallow, Pelagian attitude toward human nature would conceive of the ideal as within the reach of men.

Even in the recent address it is the dominating attitude toward other human beings that is the primary problem.

(Even Sweden, the poster country for women's equality and liberal attitudes toward human sexuality, strictly regulates abortion after the eighteenth week of pregnancy.)

As well as creating a spirit of love, the church can create an attitude of trust and faith toward other human beings, thus stressing the potentialities of man rather than the immediate realities.

Beneath these attitudes is often a belief that the practice of Christianity somehow squelches our human nature and freedom which usually tend toward something more «human» or «realistic.»

This blunt and provocative book, now a best seller, is meant to shake up what Manji calls mainstream Islam, to which she puts her honest questions about fundamentalist attitudes toward women, human rights, Jews, the U.S. and even the Qur» an.

The awesome fact is that in every human attitude and choice we make, we are taking an attitude toward EVERYMAN.

Cardinal Dulles paraphrases the standard argument this way: «By giving the impression that human beings sometimes have the right to kill, [capital punishment] fosters a casual attitude toward evils such as abortion, suicide, and euthanasia.»

The current concept of «social engineering» reflects this mechanistic attitude toward human beings.

He notes that cosmology is developed by a «human subjectivity [which] affirms itself through its non-egocentric attitude toward the external world» (p. 113).

It is wise, in fact, to go beyond this by frankly stating that most human problems are complicated, that some require professional therapy, that many can not be solved fully, and that often the best we can do is change our attitudes toward them.

St. Augustine's attitude toward the pleasures of the body and toward human desire generally is profoundly affected by this doctrine.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

Enns argues that many modern - day evangelicals have assumed an attitude toward Scripture that is analogous to the Docetism heresy, which held that Christ only appeared to be human.

To our ears such words sound very like the most blatant human imperialism toward the rest of nature, as does the divine commission to man in Genesis 1:28; and in modern times they may have fostered such an attitude and been used as a divine «exploiters» charter» to justify it.

Examine your own attitude toward equality as a basic human right and an ethical issue for the church.

My early polemical attitude toward the Catholic Church had been modified when, in the days of the New Deal social revolution, the Catholic Church revealed that it was much more aware of the social substance of human nature, and of the discriminate standards of justice needed in the collective relations of a technical culture, than was our individualistic Protestantism.

In lyrical prose, Fox ruminates on how these perceptions might influence our attitude toward the planet once human travel is possible.

The section, which was part of the unedited chapter on public attitudes toward science and technology, notes that 45 % of Americans in 2008 answered true to the statement, «Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.»

Scientists have a wide range of attitudes toward human spaceflight.

The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs,» is to be published this May in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.

Well, Superdrug had some of the same questions, which is why they surveyed more than 2,000 people in Europe and the United States to get more insight into the human experience of sexuality and our attitudes toward it.

Human sexual behavior has been shifting for decades if not centuries, and with the advent of internet dating and changes in social mores, notably more open attitudes toward sex, hooking up has become a «thing.»

Cynical, tone - deaf junk that has nothing to contribute to the world but smirks and a general dismissive attitude toward human connection and interaction.

Although uncertainties about the nature of these virtues have been raised since classical times, Gardner reveals that in an age defined by vast technological advancement and relativistic attitudes toward human nature, current trends are largely a product of postmodern...

Although uncertainties about the nature of these virtues have been raised since classical times, Gardner reveals that in an age defined by vast technological advancement and relativistic attitudes toward human nature, current trends are largely a product of postmodern thought and digital media.

Note that a Yorkshire Terrier does not have excessive strength and is not capable of doing much harm to humans, but an aggressive attitude toward us is very harmful and worrying, especially if there are children involved.

Academic studies are providing new insights into the human - animal bond, while opinion surveys reveal trends in public attitudes toward spay / neuter and other pet - related issues.

Studies show that humane values, taught in the regular classroom for one year, permanently change students» attitudes toward animals and those attitudes are later transferred to humans when children become adults.

Cecily Brown's work confronts a variety of content with deep insight into the surrounding reality and through an intimate meditation, a psychological and introspective attitude toward the human soul.

In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized.

The manner in which a civilization integrates bathing within its life, as well as the type of bathing it prefers, yields searching insight into the inner nature of the period... The role that bathing plays within a culture reveals the culture's attitude toward human relaxation.