Sentences with phrase «human nature as»

At least, that has been the result of my assessment of human nature as it applies to individual behaviour vs. group behaviour whilst watching the practices of profit - driven enterprises during my lifetime.

Searching for information (or services) is as much human nature as connecting.

(Sorry, Human Nature as found in any Macro / Micro Economics course really does drive the decision sets....)

Judging from the debate as it is floating these days, it sure seems to me as if a gentlemen's agreement has been reached: one that places international, globalized capitalism and concumerism on the shelf, as among the main characteristics of human nature as human nature is played out in our times.

This group exhibition will explore human nature as it exists through the relationship of man and animal: in what ways do we see our own image in the creatures surrounding us, in what ways do we try to control the creatures surrounding us, or in what ways are these creatures that surround us completely overshadowed and taken for granted?

In the Bakery, the final video image suggesting an outcome strongly indicates the existence of a human nature as the ambition to control, instrumentalise, manipulate and commodify any surrounding.

In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce - Benjamin's brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that binds them forever.

With exquisite prose, Sepetys plumbs the depths of her quartet of characters, bringing each to the breaking point and back, shaping a narrative that is as much about the intricacies of human nature as it is about a historical catastrophe.

Your story will move from the particular to something more universal — a story that reveals as much about human nature as about unique individuals.

people using human nature as an excuse to do nothing or make light of a real problem that holds you back.

Jarvis sees human nature as «mean, nasty, brutish, selfish, and capable of great cruelty and meanness.

Harold Bloom helpfully suggests that our continued interest in Shakespeare has something to do with Shakespeare's particular insight into what it means to be a human being: «Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.»

We identify these aspects of human nature as three fundamental personal needs: safety, connection, and power.

As Florence, an all - purpose «assistant» who helps the hapless Greenberg housesit while his brother's family is out of the country, Gerwig functions as an opposing force, as open and optimistic about human nature as he is sour and misanthropic.

Wong Kar - Wai's films have consistently explored the quirks and fragility of human nature as few filmmakers have ever been able to.

The film becomes about how you go about understanding someone when they're giving nothing away, and of course, it's as much about decoding human nature as extra-terrestrial.

That is human nature as all human pine for freedom.

You would realize the true human nature as well and then you would start acting accordingly.

Thus the view of human nature as irredeemably cruel, warlike, and selfish — or as inherently peace loving — is a mistake, argues de Waal.

Earlier today George Osborne joked (in remarks that did not appear in the text issued to the press) that anyone would be as cynical about human nature as Gordon Brown if they had spent so long working with Ed Balls.

The understanding of human nature as a predisposed tabula rasa informs us that survival is the most fundamental human instinct coded in our genetics and that, when imperiled, it is likely to trump everything else.

It also contains, however, an intellectual history of moral philosophy, a theory of virtue, and an account of human nature as being part of a larger framework created by a benevolent deity.

The discussions have also often oscillated between polar contrasts, presenting human nature as either fundamentally good or bad.

The sustainability of any political order depends on governance mechanisms that successfully balance the ever - present tension between these nine human dignity needs and the three attributes of human nature as I define them: emotionality, amorality and egoism.

They knew Him as alive from the dead, in the full integrity of His human nature as also in the full reality of His divine nature.

Committed to this alternative interpretation, Gregory Baum fittingly writes, «In other words, human nature as it is at present is not normative for theologians....

By his definition of human nature as a naturalistic generic entity, Feuerbach «pushed Hegel aside» without «overcoming him critically».

It was helpful to take that long route, however, since walking it will have demonstrated that church worship is no incidental matter for the Christian, but rather is grounded in his very human nature itself as well as in his distinctively Christian faith.

What difference might it make in the way you see and treat both yourself and others if you view human nature as inherently evil or inherently good or somewhere in between?

This notion requires much more elaboration, but the main point is that the «image of God» is not an uncorrupted one in human nature as it actually exists, and this fact prevents us from taking too sanguine a view of our divinely given, unique powers.

Only if our Scripture, doctrine, and worship are both the work and the enlightenment of human nature as a whole will women have a share in that heritage as well.

For the modern problem really lies in the fact that so many Enlightenment thinkers relied on a concept of «natural» that was anything but a reflection of human nature as it actually exists.

[14] Human nature as flesh and spirit was created not only «in Wisdom», but specifically «in Jesus Christ» the Incarnate Wisdom of God who recapitulates all things in himself.

John Paul IPs own writings did much to develop a new «personalist» vision of Catholic moral, spiritual and social teaching, although not perhaps a clear anthropology or philosophy of human nature as body and soul.

We need to make public arguments that touch directly upon the truth about human nature as available to human reason.

His sees human nature as essentially good and well - meaning, as something that can be improved through the efforts of institutions like the post - Vatican II church, which have the resources to educate and form their members.

The only relevant question for the theologian is the basic assumption on which the adoption of a biological as of every other Weltanschauung rests, and that assumption is the view of the world which has been molded by modern science and the modern conception of human nature as a self - subsistent unity immune from the interference of supernatural powers.

When we understand human nature as the pinnacle and goal of material development it all appears to come to nothing, or at least to frustration, without an end in God - and that quandary can not be answered from within the categories and potential of created being.

Tanner begins with an extended discussion, stretching over three chapters, of human nature as oriented from the beginning by grace to the image of God, the second person of the Trinity.

Ever since the quarrel over artificial birth control in the 1960s, wayward Catholic theologians have led the way in dismissing Catholic sexual morality as mere «physicalism», this [dismissal] being an attitude which ignores the dual character of human nature as a union of body and soul.

If he didn't truly have the same human nature as us, he didn't become human.

As I indicated in my essay, Darwinism denies the fundamental assumption of Marxism» the radical malleability of human nature as a contingent product of social and economic conditions.

One must not jump to the conclusion that Hawthorne thought human nature as utterly debased as Emerson thought it sublime.

Nonetheless, he argues intuitively that we recognize human nature as most dignified in the denial of oneself in service to another, rather than in the projection of oneself onto the world.

Always central to his writing is a fully orthodox defence of the literal divinity of the Person of Jesus Christ and also of his true human nature as Son of Man.

The tradition encourages us to accept human nature as God has created it.

«65» In the paragraphs which follow, it becomes clear that behind Wallis's question is his belief that traditional evangelical thought has failed to deal with our fundamental human nature as social beings, choosing instead to center on the solitary individual vis - à - vis God.

In some such fashion we can come to understand the Christian conviction that through Jesus Christ God is decisively present and at work, «representing» (in Schubert Ogden's admirable word) the possibility present in human nature as such, establishing a reconciliation of human existence with God's intention for it, and revealing the divine nature in human terms and with a singular intensity.

It has provided grounds for the recognition of racial equality — a recognition of the dignity of human nature as such — but it has done much more, and indeed, much less.

For example, Genesis» «7 days» of creation isn't 7 days, or 7 ages, but an allegory about human nature as rational (Days 1 & 4 symbolized by the sun, moon, & stars), sensate (Days 2 & 5, symbolized by birds & fish), and physical (symbolized by plants and land).