Sentences with phrase «human conceit»

What Raine and director Roger Michell set up is an almighty clash between justice as a human conceit and empathy as a human reality.

Leave our human conceit out of the definition.

There is nothing to indicate that immortality is anything other than a human conceit.

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I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

Here you feel humans can take it upon themselves to say who should have kids and here you are, deluded, conceited and playing God to tell Mike not to, by the way, my mom raised me to be highly respectful to women and I continue to strive for that every day.

It has been clear for a long time that the doctrine Limbaugh preaches: The exaltation of money and material wealth as representative of a person's HUMAN value, contempt and hatred for the poor, bigotry, arrogant conceit, etc., has become indistinguishable from satanism.

The author reviews a book by Stanley Hauerwas: When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.

When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.

One of the conceits of our age is the idea that reason and science have banished superstition and brought a new era of light to human affairs.

No one was more influential in the definition of the modern state than Thomas Hobbes, who through the conceit of the «state of nature,» portrayed humans as naturally autonomous and individual, with a shared membership solely through one institution» the State.

I see an anthropomorphic concept of God... that God / Universe / Nature acts in human ways... as either a conceited sin of pride or a poetic metaphoric description, that is in objective reality, almost impossible to ignore in any Western culture.

Anyone making a thorough scientific study of religious and philosophical thought through out the world, including not only a culturally self centered conceited study of Judeo - Christain - Islamic Western forms alone... would find a much more rich variety of understanding, meeting the needs of the many levels of developed conciousness in the human species.

We need to stop being so conceited, as to think that only a human like being can be intelligent / logical.

Post-modernism, for all its powerful puncturing of the messianic rationalist conceit, has the same deracinated view of the human subject at its heart.

This perennial question was famously addressed in the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel, which tells of how humans developed the conceit that they could use their shared language to cooperate in the building of a tower that would take them to heaven.

The original conceit — a world in which the dinosaurs never went extinct, with a story following a dinosaur and his pet human boy — remained, but Lithgow told us that the movie was «dismantled and completely reimagined,» adding that he already completed his voice work but was due to record all - new dialogue.

As for the central conceit of the «Transformers» mythology: I can work up only so much enthusiasm for the idea of Transformers having dictated the course of human history from the Dark Ages onward.

With his innate sweetness and basic, self - destructive belief in human goodness regardless of the horrors that beset him, he's a fit Gen Y Eddie Bracken here for Gomez and Steinfeld's manic conceits.

There's an unproductive tension between the mind - blowing possibilities of Payne's sci - fi conceit and his natural inclination to give that conceit a human pulse.

Gosling's characters are shades of humans — often too hollow or meaninglessly brooding to deliver any actual impact - whereas his overarching feminist conceit seems truly lost in the woods here.

It's a fitting conceit as the Milgram experiment essentially aggrandizes the dark reaches of the human heart and our willingness to bend to authority.

She has to be both human and machine, hero and villain, and convincing enough to work within the film's plot conceit.

It's a bold and clever conceit to hang a film on, and if McDormand's character had been only slightly more human, the audacity of her actions would have rung with genuine anger and desperation, rather than the same relentless sense of bitter self - aggrandizement that she evinces all throughout the film.

Framed by the conceit that Cinderella's vermin - pals want to write a storybook about their favourite human, Cinderella II opens with a strange section aping Rebecca, continues with a strange section aping It's A Wonderful Life, and concludes with a misguided apologia of the original film's Disney - patented subtext of «beauty makes right.»

It will be this next generation of students, philosopher kings and queens, to borrow a conceit from Plato, who will solve for what is authentically human amid the conditions they did not create.

In case you don't already know, Splatoon's unique conceit is that you play as an Inkling: a human / squid hybrid armed with paint - based weaponry.

If humans have one overriding conceit and one universally shared delusion, it is that the world owes us for being so special.

The media's respectful worship of inspirational bad science best - sellers (e.g. «Mein Kampf's» eugenics pesudoscience) is based on the book's corruption to «change human affairs», which is precisely Dale Carnegie's template for inspirational speech making, and is so well suited to the conceited like climate reality denier Al Gore), deliberately «oversimplifies» and deceives to motivate the masses against an exaggerated immediate peril (requiring gas chambers for eugenics, unilateral nuclear disarmament, or CO2 taxation).

On the other hand, the conceit of the AI programmers / researchers, is that law isn't opaque at all; rather, that eventually we will have adequate AI algorithms, that will eventually conduct legal analysis at a level equal to the best human analyst, and capable of doing it faster.