Sentences with phrase «human tendencies toward»

Positive feedback loops and natural human tendencies toward herd behavior keep the process going until a point of excess is reached and the debt becomes a major problem.

The third and most important cause of confusion and conflict in the moral enterprise is the human tendency toward self - centeredness.

Now we must consider sin as a condition, the human tendency toward sinning that is traditionally called «original sin».

Not exact matches

Then they tested their «impulsive approach tendencies» toward men (that is, their latent attraction to them) in a task that involved tapping keyboard keys rapidly, to move an on - screen manikin - a basic drawing of a human figure - as quickly as possible in a specified direction.

Finally, the human need to make what Charles Taylor calls «strong evaluations» works as another tendency toward religion.

In short, the human condition entails genuinely natural capacities for religion, which these four tendencies often direct toward the actualized practice of religion.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

The second natural tendency toward religion springs from the human capacity to recognize problems and our desire to solve them.

But what exactly are the natural tendencies toward religion grounded in human personhood?

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

If it is the interaction between man and man which makes possible authentic human existence, it follows that the precondition of such authentic existence is that each overcomes the tendency toward appearance, that each means the other in his personal existence and makes him present as such, and that neither attempts to impose his own truth or view on the other.

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

Human beings have a spontaneous tendency toward grouping resulting from the fact that man is essentially a social being whose deepest personality needs can be satisfied only in relationships.

One of the most disturbing features about the human heart, its tendency toward jealousy, leaped out at me once in a line by novelist Gore Vidal: «Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.»

Niebuhr's inordinate emphasis on the doctrine of sin derives from the anxiety inherent in the paradox created by the conflict between man's freedom and his tendency toward the prideful self - dependency which is a universal human tendency.

For Schleiermacher, the solidarity of the race and its mutual struggle toward spiritual existence from a starting place of sensuous existence accounts for the universal tendency of humans to act against one another's good, and so against their own good as well.

There is, to use a phrase of C. H. Dodd, a «fundamental wrongness» in human life, in which every living man is inescapably involved; a «reprobate character,» a tendency toward evil, which no man can successfully resist.

In a word, a dynamic tendency toward communion with God, and with other creatures in relation to God, lies in the inmost depths of every human being and not only Christians.

The natural tendency of the human being is toward domination and slavery, even though the heart might think it desires freedom.

[2] This condition has been characterized in many ways, ranging from something as insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without collective guilt, referred to as a «sin nature», to something as drastic as total depravity or automatic guilt of all humans through collective guilt.

The prophetic disposition sees all reality in terms of historical eventfulness — it weighs every event by its tendency to conspire with or against God's drive to shape history toward his kingdom of love and justice, and it understands that the human vocation is to participate in this struggle.

Assuming that social behavior has a genetic component, it is likely that humans have inherited similar tendencies toward both aggression and mutual aid.

Behavior matching that leads to prosocial behaviors toward others may have been one of the mechanisms at the basis of altruistic behavioral tendencies in capuchins and in other primates, including humans.

We humans have a well - documented tendency toward hubris, arrogantly imagining ourselves at center stage, with everything revolving around us.

«Past research has indicated that humans might have a distinctive neurological tendency toward being spiritually oriented,» said Brick Johnstone, a neuropsychologist and professor of health psychology.

«The behavioral attributes of ASD — such as a tendency toward socially isolated behavior — are part of a continuum that we see in every human being,» he says.

Gibson has made a big, bold, nightmarishly beautiful film not just about the dawn of the Christian faith, but about the awful tendency of human communities (wherever and whenever in the world they may exist) toward self - preservation, intolerance and mob rule.

Tati cloaks these concerns in charm, optimism, and hilarity, developing his comedic material out of our collective tendency toward clumsiness and error, despite our wishes to the contrary, and ultimately celebrating this imperfection as the foundation of spontaneity, creativity, and human compassion.

If the dog has bitten before or shown aggressive tendencies toward a human and the owner has knowledge of the incident, the owner is generally held strictly liable for the dogs subsequent actions.»

Neutering reduces the tendency to be aggressive toward humans and other animals, and it lowers your pet's risk of developing an enlarged prostate and prostatitis.

Sterilization also reduces the tendency to be aggressive toward humans and other animals.

As the human species heads toward 9 billion in the next few decades, with a tendency to eat up the food chain as prosperity rises, is there any prospect of sustaining yields of seafood, whether wild - caught or farmed?

Perhaps we're in a slow transition toward a new definition of security including security from natural hazards, along with the human species» darker tendencies.

Combine all these elements with the tendency toward drying that he links to human - driven warming of Indian Ocean waters and you have what's in the headlines — with more to come.