Sentences with phrase «human reason even»

In the philosophic tradition of Thomas Aquinas, «natural law» is distinguished from divine law because its commands are accessible to human reason even in the absence of divine revelation.

Finally, the third stage reduces the scope of human reason even further.

Not exact matches

If autonomous cars are safer than human - driven ones, the reasoning goes, we'll save more lives by bringing the technology to market as quickly as we can, even if there are a few fatal crashes along the way.

If even just a fraction of those can infect humans, those are thousands of reasons to further the research working toward developing effective broad - spectrum antivirals.

We human beings crave social interaction; this is one of the reasons why coworking spaces continue to be popular even when working from home is an option.

And yet, if human happiness is even half as complicated as the stock market, there is little reason to assume that intuition provides a sufficient guide.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

But an even more crucial premise is Swinburne's version of the principle of sufficient reason: «The human quest for explanation inevitably and rightly seeks for the ultimate explanation of everything observable.»

All of you are capable human beings, full of reason and logic... you've even posted your own parameters by which one should operate.

The overarching interpretive rubric within which to understand the spheres of human life — and, for us here, in particular the family — is Augustine's statement, in Book I of The City of God, that the servants of God «have no reason to regret even this life of time, for in it they are schooled for eternity.»

So then perhaps it is no poem, or at any rate not one for which any human being is responsible, nor yet mankind; ah, now I understand you, it was for this reason you called my procedure the most wretched act of plagiarism, because I did not steal from any individual, nor from the race, but from the God or, as it were, stole the God away, and though I am only an individual man, aye, even a wretched thief, blasphemously pretended to be the God.

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

Sexual intercourse is the way of procreation, and even where for reasons of natural circumstances or human intervention new life is not begotten, the act is never wholly separated from this meaning.

However vigorously the Catholic Church defends human reason, a necessary presupposition of freedom for love, even defining that reason can know with certitude God's existence, the reason envisaged can not be a deterministic reason that would banish all ambiguity and freedom.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

His jeremiad is no mere denunciation of a corrupt political class but of the Spaniards» failure to live up to even the basic dictates of human reason.

Cal, there is zero reason to even suggest the existence of any god you can imagine that interacts with humans.

Interestingly, even secular non-believing historians have debunked the «never existed» myth... Jesus is still under attack today as He was two thousand years ago... Efforts to rid human history of His existence, and reason for coming here have failed, and continue to fail.

The FBI, who investigate most hate crimes, would not rule out any possibility, even the relatively mild and all - too - human possible scenarios I touched upon in my posts, without good reason to do so.

In the forthcoming Victories of Reason he will go even further, contending that the most significant advances in knowledge, liberty, human rights and material well - being — what we like to call progress — stem not from Greece or the Enlightenment or modernity but from Christianity itself.

The second reason why women must get more engaged in this discourse is because they have something radically new to offer — a new way of understanding society, of human relationships and even of being church.

And the reason that we can not predict the forthcoming events of human history is that the human future is quite unknowable (even by any presumed God!)

If death is the ultimate loss of control, and if that is the ultimate human indignity inconsistent with life as autonomous self - possession, then there is no reason to ban or even disapprove of suicide for any mortal, rational, human being.

; so why can't the philosophical realist state the obvious even in his despair: Jesus was an uncommon human being, filled with dignity and virtue, who is worth emulating and honoring (Is not this example of dignity and virtue enough reason to live?).

To begin with, because human beings possess highly developed faculties of reason, language, and memory, a man's sense of what is «his» is not limited to himself, his family, or even those with whom he regularly interacts.

In addition to his sense of the sacred, Camus's sense of the limits of human reason and justice is worthy of serious attention for its incipient natural law approach combined with a sober prudence about how far even the best human intentions can be trusted.

And if the spiritual folk eventually choose «a commitment to the Enlightenment ideal of human - based knowledge, reason and action,» even better.

Another result weighs even more heavily on those who believe — in accord with all scientific evidence and sound reasoning — that the life terminated by abortion is a human being.

In the theology of Karl Barth, for example even though scientific discoveries are affirmed within the realm proper to science, the only way to know God is through God's free decision to reveal herself / himself in Jesus Christ; any other way of attempting to know God, such as through the exercise of human reason, of which science is an example, is pretentious idolatry on the part of humans trying to play God.

And human reasoning can even trump divine intention.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

Even though the image of God's humility is paradoxical to human reason, we may be enabled by it to make much more sense of our world than we could without it.

Sin evokes, one mighteven say provokes, within the human heart of Christ an even greater outpouring of undeserved love, but it is never the author of that love nor the reason for the existence of that most Sacred Heart.

Given such reasons for concern, why might one support, or even advocate, human cloning?

By reason of this prior decision Whitehead is forced to interpret all those beings of higher order that manifest themselves as unities, such as living beings and humans, to be a multiplicity of entities, that is, to be a «society,» [253] or even more as a whole gradation of inter-compartmentalized «societies» and «subordinate societies.»

I see no reason to insist upon this absolute difference, and could even suggest that at the highest levels of their intellectual functioning human occasions may be able to conceive possibilities directly.

Another reason is that our experience does not indicate that even on the human level process has resulted in progress.

Its not Gods reasoning its human reasoning and even the Bible says Gods ways are higher than our ways.

But even if religion were to fade away, humans would just come up with another reason to kill each other.

The reason for this is that it is usual, even natural (to use here the question - begging adjective), for human sexual expression to be with others precisely because (as I have argued) human existence is a social existence, where sociality is the correlative of personality.

you can find examples of this pathetic god and its very human traits... its all thru out the bible, and it even makes excuses for why god seems so human — two possible reasons for this — either those who wrote the bible screwed up and forgot to make god seem godlike because its all a lie... a fabrication of man... or god isn't a god but rather a petty, hateful alien with a napoleon complex (not sure they have a napoleon in the alien form... godzilla — lol, but godzilla at least is a true possibility... god and those who believe are living in a fantasy world!!

Even while not being able to offer certitude, he can suggest reasons why the faith of the believer is plausible, whether that faith be in the literal continuance of subjective experiencing in a heaven or hell, or in some kind of objective permanence in human history.

some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others - those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence fo the lord our God the reason we are here...

some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others — those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence of the lord our God the reason we are here...

If that power has seemed to be on the wane in recent history, it is due in large part to the widespread assumption that reason and faith belong to different realms, or represent different, even conflicting, dimensions of human experience.

As is clear even in outline, Camus's plan was to face the existential abyss and pursue what might still be won for human life even where reason (which is to say, productions like the large continental philosophical constructs of French and German rationalism) and God were no longer available.

A few reasons why are religious people so stupid: — do not understand Sunday is a day off for many people — they feel it's honorable to post on hobby / interest blogs while at work — do not understand time zones and / or that web sites may be accessed 24/7 by international visitors — do not understand that even within a single time zone humans may have different sleep habits

It is for this reason doubtless that the book lives, for even the great name of the Sage could hardly have kept it alive for so many centuries, had it not made a genuine appeal to human interest and expressed much of what humanity longs to express but can not do unaided.

Readers of this book can no doubt propose cogent reasons for the breakdown, not least the remnants of racism and classism even in Trinity, a church splendidly accomplished in its quest for human solidarity.