Sentences with phrase «human mode of being»

Even humanistic studies in a core curriculum fail to kindle the energies needed for a more vital human mode of being.

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Many of the women are believed to be victims of human trafficking, desperately seeking a safe mode of escape.

The vehicle was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision, with a human test driver behind the wheel.

The 200 vehicles, which consist of both the Model S sedans and the Model X SUVs from Tesla, will be tested in the «autopilot» mode, which currently requires a human driver to be present.

The Volvo was in self - driving mode with a human backup driver at the wheel when it hit 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking a bicycle outside the lines of a crosswalk, police said.

This is the first time an autonomous vehicle operating in self - driving mode has resulted in a human death, and that has huge implications for the future of AVs and their use on roads.

Meanwhile, the letter of the Arizona executive order seems to suggest that the human operator is on the hook for any traffic infractions while he or she is in the vehicle, even if it's in fully autonomous mode.

«What I am describing is the mode of the whole human experience of the world.

He criticizes textualism (a mode of judicial interpretation) by citing the author's attempt to «show how lawmakers are engaged in the creative work of ensuring that natural law... is given effect in our human living.»

This ideology is the basis for a mode of production, especially in the affluent countries, whose thirst for profit and for irrational expansion has not only promoted the pauperization of the majority of the planet's human population but has also led to the plundering and pollution of nature.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

One response to this situation is to understand Christianity as the creation in history of a new and in some sense final mode of human existence.

And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15

In Romans, Barth said that the Word of God can be uttered only when the predicate Deus revelatus has as its subject Deus absconditus31 The vast ocean of so - called reality that is the profane world of a completely autonomous mode of human existence has left the island of the sacred completely submerged.

One of the main lessons of physical anthropology is that one must look elsewhere than to inherited physical traits for personally significant modes of human classification.

We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

What is being so alarmingly lost today is that other mode of human sexual attraction or sexual power, the feminine - masculine attraction.

Vorhanden, which Heidegger uses of the peculiar mode of being characteristic of inanimate objects, as contrasted with responsible human Dasein, I have translated by «tangible», as in Bultmann the antithesis is not so much between Vorhandensein and Dasein as between the tangible realities of the visible world and eternal realities, very much like the Pauline contrast of kata sarka and kata pneuma.

Sexuality in our age is almost completely dominated by the stimulus of bodily attraction, that is, the male - female mode of sexual power or that power of attraction which humans have in common with the animals.

Similarly, functional psychology was the mode of inquiry into human behavior calculated to yield understanding of the human response to environmental demands, replacing introspective or subjective psychology whose interests were more internal and even mystical.

To focus entirely on paradigmatic modes of thought is to pull away from attending to consciousness, and therefore, to the human act of sense - making.

As with Spinoza, nature is identified with the ultimate, and a human being appropriately understands himself or herself as but one of many equally important and interrelated expressions of God: a «temporary and dependent mode of the whole of God / Nature» (SD 310).

To cite but one example, in Modes of Thought Whitehead says, in respect to occasions of human experience, that «there is a dual aspect to the relationship of an occasion of experience as one relatum and the experienced world as another relatum.

Physicists, contrasting this view with an anthropocentric worldview, express it in terms of the anthropic principle — the human is seen as a mode of being of the universe as well as a distinctive being in the universe.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

Narrative is a significant mode of human communication, a bearer of culture, and a potentially profound and far - reaching educational methodology.

The two natural modes of human thought, according to Bruner, are paradigmatic thought (logico - scientific thinking that rests on description, explanation and verification) and narrative thought that weaves together action and consciousness (NPM) 3 Consciousness is the thinking, feeling and willing of the human person.

In addition to outlining the various stages of personality development in his theory, Sullivan also speaks about three modes of «thinking» by which human beings perceive and evaluate their experiences.

«47 Both the questions of creativity and truth are modes of God's givenness to human experience, and it is through the problem of relating to our past selves, the past selves of others, and the past of the universe that this question becomes focused.

Human beings are integral to it — indeed, the human is «that being in whom the universe reflects upon and celebrates itself in a special mode of conscious self - awareness.&rHuman beings are integral to it — indeed, the human is «that being in whom the universe reflects upon and celebrates itself in a special mode of conscious self - awareness.&rhuman is «that being in whom the universe reflects upon and celebrates itself in a special mode of conscious self - awareness.»

This stress on the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations means that, in considering the morphological structure of religious experience, attention must be directed to its origin in the physical feelings which comprise the primary mode of human experience.

Socialism is inherently hostile to Christianity and capitalism is simply the essential mode of human life that corresponds to religious truth» (reported in Rodney Clapp, «Where Capitalism and Christianity Meet,» Christianity Today [February 4, 1983]-RRB-.

To be realized it must affect all modes of human association, the family, the school, industry, religion» (PIP 143).

Furthermore, since even these items that might indeed be susceptible of generalization are realized differently in different types of entities, there is always something peculiarly human about their mode of realization in human occurrences.

Dewey's point is that we can not create a truly democratic community without extending the ideas of freedom and choice and the pooling of intelligence to all modes of human association.

The latter mode, which constitutes the «given» element in human experience, occurs prior to the rise of the interpretative element, and is therefore not culturally conditioned.

As is well known, there are many significant points of divergence between the two philosophers, but we shall keep to our topic of human experience as manifested in its basic mode, primitive perception.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

One may understand the personality of God as His act — it is, indeed, even permissible for the believer to believe that God became a person for love of him, because in our human mode of existence the only reciprocal relation with us that exists is a personal one.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

One mode is that primarily employed in this book in which attention has been focused on the intrapsychic structure, and especially on the center from which the occasion of human experience is organized and unified.

Sexuality has been for him a mode of human...

As Aquinas said, all knowledge is ad modum recipientis, and the «mode» of our human receiving is the human mode, which is tautological but none the less true and never to be forgotten.

The conviction that there is a diversity of structures of existence as well as a diversity of modes of existence within each structure is partly a function of reflection on human differences and partly a function of a priori considerations.

Nevertheless, they are modes of response of persons to experienced realities, and they must be judged on the basis of their success in disclosing the qualitative possibilities of human experience.

One is that in choosing an indirect mode of self - revelation, God preserves human freedom by not coercing us into a trusting relationship.

But Sen's only hope for this essential self «transcendence is his belief in human reason» plus the «evolutionary selection of behavioral modes.»

It is because there is a legitimate thought of the unconditioned that the transcendental illusion is possible; this latter does not proceed from the projection of the human into the divine but, on the contrary, from the filling - in of the thought of the unconditioned according to the mode of the empirical object.

Perhaps this is why the family and suchlike groupings are commonly regarded as among the most rewarding of all modes of human community.

As we have hinted, theories about the mode of that presentness reflect an almost presumptuous human attempt to define and describe what can be apprehended only by faith.