Sentences with phrase «human reason over»

earthquakes, and that the rise of modern science (inspired, of course, by Enlightenment values exalting human reason over divine revelation) has rendered religion obsolete.

Not exact matches

He has written over 150 scholarly papers on human reasoning, decision making, and motivation.

The top reasons: 1) Personal control over one's own environment is a «fundamental» human desire; 2) Privacy is important to employees; 3) Noise and other distractions can contribute to absenteeism.

Might the reason be that belief in human perfectibility has taken so many hard knocks over the last several thousand years?

His psychologism reorients the search for guidance away from reason toward human nature itself and therefore favors widely distributed and long - established practices over novel schemes of improvement.

in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.

With the philosophy of Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), the nature of reality was no longer seen as writ large over the universe only to be discovered by the exercise of reason but rather was what the human mind perceived, interpreted, made it to be («Cogito, ergo sum.

The Christian people suspect, and not always without reason, that because the Church's human law must be established by the authorities it is actually subject to the arbitrariness of the ministry and hence not really a law that would give the people a well - established position over against the decisions of the Pope or the entire episcopate.

But if you sway to the reason of natural evolution of human mind over God explanation for the existence of religion then you are an Atheist.

b) the natural rights theories that based rights on reason and natural law, linked to the concept of the supreme dignity of the human person as a creature of God, who alone had sovereign right over all,

It was the age of Confucius in China, of the Buddha in India, and of Mahavira, founder of Jainism, the period also when the principal Hindu Upanishads were written, of Lao - tzu and the flourishing of Taoism in China, of the prophet Zoroaster in the Middle East, of the great transformative prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and second - Isaiah in Israel, and finally this was the period of the birth of philosophy and science and what we call Western culture in Greece, all these developments at the same time arising independently in different cultures for reasons not yet fully understood — a kind of quickening of human consciousness all over the globe.

Finally, while we agree wholeheartedly that Revelation takes precedence over human reasoning, we can not agree with the assertion that metaphysics can never be modified in the light of advances in physics.

And, by very reason of the elements involved, the process can not achieve stability until, over the entire globe, the human quantum has not merely closed the circle upon itself (as it is doing at this moment, in a penultimate phase) but has become organically totalized.

For Holloway human reason is that natural and immediate power of spiritual mind over physical matter which recognises unities of matter - energy and sees the potential to develop them into new unities.

It remains an often brilliant exploration of the ways in which Western humanity has succeeded in creating a world in which all values have become subordinate to the demands of the human will, and in which knowledge and human creativity have become almost entirely confused, conceptually and practically, with the exercise of instrumental reason's mastery over all of reality.

I do have faith but I do put human smarts and logic / reasoning over most christian sheep these days!

If human beings form their ultimate desires freely from among many options, and then through devotion and practice are able to see those desires actually realized, there is no reason to complain about the process but ample room to differ over which end we should seek.

Perhaps this is one reason why over the centuries gymnastics has been a sport in which the human body is just as much admired for the way it looks as for the way it performs.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources (e.g. organ donation, health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

For preparation reasons of the receptors, the group chose to study the medaka fish T1r2 - T1r3 heterodimer over the human version.

Arguably, the weak correlation between testosterone and violence gives us reason to be optimistic about the human race: Whereas other animals battle over mates as a direct result of their seasonal fluctuations in testosterone and other hormones, humans have discovered other ways to establish pecking orders.

Over the course of a year, a committee led by Green and Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has been weighing how to handle «incidental findings» that turn up when a genome or exome is sequenced for some other medical reason.

Siamese cats, and members of many species (including humans) with albinism, can have eye - to - hemisphere pathways that cross over almost completely, but for some reason tend to suffer visual problems as a result.

Scientists theorize that the reason gluten is causing these digestive system problems is due to the excessive hybridization of wheat over the last 50 years, which has created newly modified gluten molecules that are foreign to the human digestive system compared to the ancient wheat that humans ate for several thousand years historically, and even compared to the wheat that your grandparents ate 50 + years ago.

Aloe has been cultivated for human use for over 3,500 years, and for good reason: its medicinal benefits for the skin continue to remain unparalleled to this day.

Combine this extra endurance with the extra strength that you get from the addition of new muscle cells, and you are looking at the core reasons why profession athletes and bodybuilders around the world are choosing human growth hormone over any other form of anabolic supplement.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardas Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason.

Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason.

This button, built into the new Kindle Fire HDX's software, summons a real, live human being (support technician) to your tablet over video chat, day or night, any day of the year, for whatever reason you want.

Humans are the reason the cats are there, it is our duty to treat them with kindness and do what we can to help them while bringing down the population over time.

With an increase in the number and intensity of these fires over the past few years, the need for better understanding the compounds found in wildfire smoke continues to be urgent for several reasons, Pinkerton says, especially as it connects to human and animal health.

Our pet companions require oral health care for the same reasons as humans: without proper dental care their teeth can begin to deteriorate, and over time bacteria left in the mouth can cause damage to the liver, kidney and heart.

You're sent to a station on Mars to deal with a bunch of robotic foes who have decided, for unexplained reasons, to slaughter their fleshy human masters and take over the entire facility, where they now just stand around in corridors doing absolutely nothing, waiting for some silly soldier to come along and try to fight them.

«It means we need more and more plausible reasons you can get up and over things, like a human can, as opposed to taking a shortcut with a six foot jump.

Feats include what are effectively over 200 challenges such as saving a total of 1,000 humans as they are being harvested; saving a total of 31,337 humans in arcade mode; killing each of the six enemy bosses on each of the five difficulty levels; killing each of the six enemy bosses a total of 100 times in any mode; killing a total of 5,000 crawlers in any mode; and much more besides which makes for a positive design choice as it provides a further reason to replay every world.

The world where man brutally murders man for food, where tyrannical leaders invade and annihilate tribes for land, and human instinct rules over reason is about to see the release of a new Far Cry title on Tuesday.

For this reason, the Myriad Gods that watched over the land of Mizuho began to wreak havoc on the humans, and to quell this instability, the queen sacrifices her second daughter, Sakuya, in hopes of appeasing the gods.

Talk about a jumping off point for further exploration... One reason small businesses have an advantage over big box stores and chains is that they are human - scaled, or in your term, humanified.

Other honours over the past five years include a Chinese Contemporary Art Award for Lifetime Achievement; an International Architecture Award for Tsai Residence; Das Glas der Vernunft (The Prism of Reason), Kassel Citizen Award; The Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation Award for Courage; the Skowhegan Medal for Multidisciplinary Art; Wallpaper Design Award Best New Private House for Tsai Residence; and a Wall Street Journal Innovators Award (Art).

There are a variety of reasons that the media tend to pay outsize attention to research developments that support a «hot» conclusion (like the theory that hurricanes have already been intensified by human - caused global warming) and glaze over on research of equivalent quality that does not.

We are acting like microbes that would stands inside a human body with its temperature under variation and immediately reasoning we are the guilty, forgetting that this human body has a whole world surrounding it and acting over it.

Making fire undoubtedly was a major reason we as humans are still here, but since we now are burning up all organic matter sequestered over millions of years, shouldn't we change directions and find other ways to satisfy our need for energy and isn't it time we start using all our knowledge we as humans have acquired over all these years?

and, finally, one who thinks that CO2 is a greenhouse gas whose concentration has changed over the past 200 years and the main reason is human activity (one of five)?

You can, perhaps, gain some measure of control over the influence of motivated reasoning, but that won't happen if you elevate yourself above the basic underlying, human principles, that create motivated reasoning.

And I don't think we get a 3 C increase over much longer time periods [centuries] in the future - unless human deliberately want this [such as will pay money for some effort that will get more warming - for whatever reason].

OR, mosh, we could humbly recognize that human emissions (for whatever reason) don't effect the carbon growth rate anyway... The CO2 growth rate has indeed been tracking with temperature since the inception of the MLO data set well over have a century ago.

As the warming of oceans is the dominating reason for the increased content of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and as nowadays the human yearly portion (about 8 GtC CO2) of the all yearly CO2 emissions (little over 200 GtC CO2) to the atmosphere is about 4 %, the human role on the recent yearly increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is also about 4 %.

But humans will always reign over the realms of normative values, judgment, pluralistic and analogous reasoning, intuition and creative intelligence.

That loss of independence over time goes hand in hand with loss of ownership is dead obvious (following the money is what humans do; indeed, it is one of the chief reasons that quite a number of ABS supporters support it).