Sentences with phrase «human scheme of things»

In the human scheme of things, those animals are economic units whose death is inevitable.

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The most ambitious element of Brooks's scheme was designing Baxter to be trained the way humans learn things — by having someone show them how to do it — instead of having to be programmed by experts.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

Unless religious faith faces the possibility that the human race on this earth is not a permanent fixture in the scheme of things, its hope must be forever based on concealment.

Pascal longed to build a home for human beings in the world he inherited, he burned «with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite» — that is, to construct a poem like that of Dante which would locate human being in the new scheme of things.

The Bible, as a unified collection of God's setting the world to rights over time through a specific covenant people, primarily located in one geo - political area, records only a thin slice of human experience in the grand scheme of things.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

But there is little consideration of any point of view other than the human one even though the goal is so to change human perception that it will no longer attribute to itself a special position in the scheme of things.

seriously if all humans stopped and thought about it we are all just human, nothing more nothing less and no more important in the grand scheme of things than anything else in this universe.

Young as the human species is, it displays remarkable capacities: to think and reason and imagine; to ask questions and seek answers; to use language, metaphors and symbols; to ponder the mystery of origins; to locate oneself on maps of meaning; to project ideals and seek their realization; to ask how one fits into the most inclusive scheme of things.

In the grand scheme of things, a little back pain when you're creating a whole other human being isn't a big deal, but in the moment it sure does feel like one!

Casting Sheen, who has been a human - rights activist since before much the audience was born, and dressing Fields in a union t - shirt that recalls her Oscar ™ - winning turn as a union organizer leaves no doubt about where the filmmakers rank the working man and woman in the grand scheme of things, either.

We educate for various reasons, of course, but at the most basic level, we teach our children lore, skills, beliefs, and a sense of their place in the scheme of things in order to perpetuate the family, the tribe, the nation, and finally — though our teachings sometimes veer from the ideal or ignore the obvious — the human race itself.

While dogs first began to be domesticated approximately 27,000 — 40,000 years ago, according to a recent Smithsonian article, domesticated cats have only been hanging around humans for approximately 5,300 years — a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things.

Isolated against the sky these dark figures look out into space at large asking: Where does the human project fit in the scheme of things?

This all occurred in the Biblical times before there were enough humans to produce the CO2 to cause the supposed «warming»...... which in the grand 10,000 year scheme of things... is not showing warming at all.

It's hard not to wonder, though, whether simply the act of being amidst those grand mountains and green valleys shouldn't be enough to fill a hiker with awe and respect for human's smallness in the grand scheme of things.

«The big question that I'm asking with all of these works is, «where does the human project fit, in the scheme of things?»»