The relationship between
humans and nature form the source of Gregorio Esposito's artistic work.
Not exact matches
Then there's the deluge of emails you feel guilty for not reading
and responding to quickly, various
forms of entertainment available
and human nature itself, which tempts us to make irresponsible decisions
and skews our priorities.
This only conditions a child's mind to notice these things
and view them as forbidden, rather than training them for self - control through the simple acknowledgement that
humans are by
nature sexual beings,
and that the female
form is beautiful, something to be appreciated
and not objectified.
Hume was a prodigy
and published his system of philosophy while in his mid-twenties in the
form of A Treatise of
Human Nature.
In truth, the factors that motivated the successes of these horror - subgenre entries into the marketplace could be applied to another dominant
form of visual entertainment focused on suspense, moodiness, thinly veiled sexual references,
and the darkest side of
human nature; I'm speaking, of course, of the soap opera.
The categories suited to the interpretation of
nature are treated in Sein und Zeit as restrictive
and devolved
forms of the existentials of Dasein,
and in general it is denied that
nature has any Being outside of the ecstatic - horizonal disclosure space of
human historicality.
In turn, in the technological West, it all undermines the important traditional emphasis upon the holistic
form,
human nature, natural law
and the very existence of the divine designer.
In fact any
form of «dualism» with regard to the constitution of
human nature has frequently been sneered at as philosophically dated
and theologically distasteful.
Studies of expanding non-market sectors, productive techniques that respect the well - being of those who use them,
and the organization
and nature of work will help create more
human forms of organization.
Human beings are a part of
nature,
and evolved from lower
forms of life, whose origins sprung from a lifeless planet some 3.6 billion or so years ago.
But as «spirit» the
human soul simultaneously belongs to another realm of being, the realm of immaterial
forms,
and as such is contrasted with other formal principles of
nature, so that its ontological status is altogether different.24
At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered into ontological unity with directly created spirit to
form human nature, which exists in direct
and personal relationship to God who is the Living Environment of grace
and providence for every
human being
and for mankind as a whole.
Self - sufficient
human beings, reasonable
and capable of acting in their own interests, living in a «state of
nature,» band together to
form a government to protect their property
and interests.
Nature for him (be understands too late) is mere chaos, without
form and void, until given meaning by
human culture: «This used to be real estate / now it's only fields
and trees.»
According to Bercier, «the highest act of man is not his exercise of reason in discerning the
forms of
nature» but rather his «responsibility for his own being
and identity as it is authoritatively addressed to him by the Logos»; in other words, man's special dispensation of reason is for the sake of directing
human nature towards «its most perfect end in man's own right self - governance» versus a liberation from the yoke of that
nature.
On the contrary, there are standards of right
and wrong within Christian tradition concerning
human sexuality, based in
human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual
and heterosexual alike,
and which can
form the moral basis of public policy.
It is Whitehead's merit to have described the fundamental continuity running all through the world of
nature, from its most rudimentary
forms to it most complicated
and highest development known to us in the mental life of
human beings.
It implies that,
nature and humans in its varied
forms of land, water, forest
and labour need to be kept under private control in order to facilitate exchange in the market.
Granted that religious
forms and institutions, like other fields of
human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the
nature, atmosphere,
and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group
and to the dynamics of its development
and history?
Predation is part of the way
nature functions
and humans are indeed part of
nature, but there is something wrong with the
form of predation that is inherent in unbridled economic or social competition among
humans.
In The Spirit
and the
Forms of Love Williams analyzes the meaning of love
and indicates what this implies about the
nature of God.104 The classical conviction that the immutable is the superior is shown to devalue
human love
and to conflict with the biblical conception of God's love.
Niebuhr's antipathy toward any
form of inherited sin reflected his fear that it would mitigate responsibility; hence he writes: «the theory of an inherited second
nature is as clearly destructive of the idea of responsibility for sin as rationalistic
and dualistic theories which attribute
human evil to the inertia of
nature» (NDM 262).
I present urban
form to my students in the long
and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that
human animals by our
nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological
and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).
Itself a potent example of the ambiguity of
human association, the congregation nevertheless dares to accept its designation as the body of Christ
and the household of God, proclaiming in its acceptance the incarnate
nature of its God who took on servant
form.
The classic definition by the Christian philosopher Boethius, who
formed a bridge between Greek philosophy
and medieval Christian philosophy, is that the
human being is «anindividual substance of a rational
nature,» which became a standard definition.
Thomistic
and Augustinian traditions at their best have maintained the balance between transcendence
and immanence, Infinite
and finite,
nature and grace, essence
and existence,
form and matter, universal
and particular,
human freedom
and divine omnipotence.1
Abolishing all the inhuman conditions of life in society,
and thus humanizing the relation to the material world
and nature, the
human person will transcend all
forms of alienation.
A middle position sees the biblical record as neither completely divine nor completely
human, but as Involving both God
and man; its authors conveyed profound insights into the
nature Of God, but expressed this religious message in poetic
form and in terms of the understanding of the world then current.
And it must be a power which can be added to the conceiving power which receives such determination and forms the human nature of new bein
And it must be a power which can be added to the conceiving power which receives such determination
and forms the human nature of new bein
and forms the
human nature of new beings.
The search for a concrete
form of society
and the church which would be better for
humans and for
nature, being inspired by the triune God, is a legitimate
and, indeed, an important contribution by Boff to the ecumenical debate.
Politics is short - sighted,
and any lasting victory for an ethical
form of society requires that we nurture
and develop theoretical insight into the foundations of
human nature and ethics.
Both the left
and the right want to find a
form of discourse free from much theoretical reasoning about
human nature.
This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary in
nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence of
human experience as shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words
and linguistic expressions» (cited in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical
form of argumentation.
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 feminine power to
form human nature is, through the distinction of the sexes, separated out from the
human power to determine the creation of a new
human person because Christ is an uncreated person,
and the foundation of all humanity.
Conversely, one who feels a strong bond with all other
human beings usually has a sense of connection with
nature and with all of life, whether or not it is expressed in conventional religious
forms.
So the division of the sexes in evolution leads to the development of the womb as the environment in which
human nature is
formed and fostered.
In our present state of
human nature, lust accompanies our sexuality
and, if not countered, prevents sexuality from being a school
and a means of love,
and turns it into an obsessive
form of self - centeredness that tends to make others into objects of gratification or exploitation,
and not persons to be respected or loved.
Sin, alienating persons from God, neighbor
and nature, is found both in individual
and corporate
forms, both in slavery of the
human will
and in social, political
and economic structures of domination
and dependence.
But in the story of
human religiousness, especially in its post-axial
forms, we find perhaps the most stirring manifestation of discontent with mere appearances,
and nature's grasping for the seemingly unreachable.
Human nature was
formed by God so that it might hope for this life
and be brought towards it.
I am asking also,
and more particularly, Where in
nature is there feeling, perceiving, remembering, desiring, liking
and disliking, not necessarily in the higher
forms of these functions that we
human beings are capable of, but in some
form, however primitive
and simple, however odd or strange, when compared to our
human forms?
In Philippians 2:5 - 8; he «emptied himself» of his hevaenly glory
and spirit
nature and «took a slave's
form» in submitting to the transferal of his life to the earthly, material,
human plane.
Political correctness has many
forms, but they are united in a shared repudiation of anything solid
and substantial in public life, whether in the
form of nationalism or strong affirmations of constraints that
human nature places on any healthy society, constraints that get articulated by all
forms of traditional morality.
John tells us that this same creative Word which was with God from the beginning,
and was indeed basic to God's
nature, has now become a creature, a specific
human being, so that we are able to see the Creator in a
form of his creation.
Though he was divine by
nature he did not snatch at equality with God but emptied himself by taking the
nature of a servant; born in
human guise
and appearing in
human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die,
and to die upon the cross.
WORLD:
Humans have tried to understand the true
Nature of things forever
and how they control us
and how we should act to be properly in communion with them...
and those concepts have been updated continually by those in tune or desiring to better understand such concepts, that were once explained by God in
human form.
For the eternal, uncreated second person of the Trinity truly to become man he will take on
human nature by being conceived
and formed in the womb of a woman, like all
human beings.
Marx agreed with Feuerbach's claim that both religion
and speculative philosophy are
forms of the «alienations of man's essence», but he disagreed with Feuerbach's claim that the
human nature underlying this alienation is fully developed, untainted
and divine.
They took pleasure in
nature and in the beauty of the
human form.