Sentences with phrase «humans as the conclusion»

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He was certainly right to see the importance of human psychology, but just as he raced too quickly from the truth that knowledge rests on sensation to the conclusion that it is confined to it, so he assumed that we can only inhabit our psychology and not evaluate it.

And here I note several different understandings of the place of human beings in nature common in contemporary discourse, and acknowledge as well the conclusion implicit in my use of the term «intermediate being.»

If, as many seem to think, neo-Darwinism serves as a valid «design - defeating hypothesis» at the level of human reason but is rescued from any ultimately improper conclusions only by the intervention of theology, then it seems that my expansive definition is fully vindicated.

When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical relations.

Unless we are totally blind to human situations as they really exist, we can not avoid the conclusion that without a revolutionary quality of living the human race is doomed to an endless process of unproductive suffering or even of total extinction.

In the encyclical Aeterni Patris Leo XIII wrote that «a fruitful causeof the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

When we read Aeterni Patris as a whole, we see that Leo framed the revival of Christian philosophy chiefly in the context of the ongoing political problems: «False conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have now crept into all the orders of the State.»

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

The conclusion here concerns the teleological order within the world as a principle for practical deliberation and, in that sense, asserts a coincidence between maximizing creativity in the world as such and maximizing future human good.

In his conclusion Jenkins becomes as eloquent as any conservationist lamenting human damage to the natural environment.

Gonnerman, for his part, seems to assume that these categories of the human person are foregone conclusions in several of his writings, as well as in his recent discussion of reparative therapy, in which he calls himself «a chaste man who is also gay.»

Conclusion: Even we as sinful human beings punish our fellow human beings, if they extremly get out of line.

Instead, I will assume that the case for neoclassical metaphysics can otherwise be made and attempt programmatically to show that the comprehensive purpose it formulates grounds justice as compound, grounds a substantive principle of justice that consistently implies the formative human rights of communicative respect.7 Toward the conclusion of this argument, I will also seek to identify an inclusive human right that is substantive in character.

On this conclusion, the comprehensive purpose as a principle for moral decisions may be formulated: maximize creativity in the human future as such.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Cf. the manuscripts «Reality as History» (1935) and the so - called B - manuscript, the second unpublished conclusion to IN; the articles «The Historical Imagination» (1936) and «Human Nature and Human History» (1936) and different sections from IN and IH.

I find that many others, too, appear to be content to see Jesus as relevant to human affairs but hesitate to draw any conclusions about His relationship to the cosmic situation in which such affairs take place.

That, or something very like it, is certainly the conclusion that Aidan O'Neill QC - described in a Telegraph report as an expert on religious freedom and human rights - appears to have come to.

Fr Kevin Flannery SJ argues that Aristotle, saw human knowledge of the immaterial as that which completes our knowing of the physical rather than being a deduced conclusion from it.

One must not jump to the conclusion that Hawthorne thought human nature as utterly debased as Emerson thought it sublime.

I spent 35 years trapped in false traditional Orthodoxy that almost led to my demise or at least insanity, until I came to this conclusion: This theology reconciles ALL doctrinal problems; and does not create them as tradition has; it gives us the true message that God wills the ultimate reconciliation of ALL that He created; and gives nothing to Satan; hence does not leave the human universe eternally split between Himself and the Infernal Liar.

As a matter of fact, it is a foregone conclusion that no human way of thinking about God and his ways can be literally accurate.

Despite superficial thinking like that found, as I think, at the conclusion of du Noüy's Human Destiny, the temper of our time is one which is much more plainly realistic and honest.

Reflecting, even briefly, on the state of affairs which might evoke this universal love in the human heart, a love so often vainly dreamed of, but which now leaves the fields of Utopia to reveal itself as both possible and necessary, we are brought to the following conclusion: that for men upon earth, all the earth, to learn to love one another, it is not enough that they should know themselves to be members of one and the same thing; in «planetizing» themselves they must acquire the consciousness, without losing themselves, of becoming one and the same person.

The implausible conclusion is that the evolutionary past came into existence only as human beings learned about it.

Against that conclusion we can be grateful for Kant's subordination of the individual to the human species or to Mind as such, and we can be grateful for the linguistic turn that locates reality in shared language.

As with social regimentation and behavioristic concepts of human nature, so too with the denial of immortality, what seems to many people a modern conclusion was, in fact, the primitive beginning.

But the whole array of our instances leads to a conclusion something like this: It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call «something there,» more deep and more general than any of the special and particular «senses» by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

The final conclusion of the argument, then, depends upon appealing not only to the moral implications of faith in any situation, but also to the understanding of ourselves and of our fellow human beings as the agents of history that is pervasive of our situation today.

In conclusion then, we would restate our main goal in this training as assisting the student to move toward the fulfillment of himself as a human being, with the additional understanding of those disciplines and the appropriation of those skills which are necessary to the pastor in the counseling process.

But I have long ago come to the conclusion that the bible, as well as any other holy text, is an imperfect representation of God from a very imperfect human perspective.

«Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as those which threaten, us lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schoolsof philosophy, have now crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

And in the conclusion to the document, the Council is determined to reinforce a view of the human person «as a creature «in - between,» neither god nor beast, neither dumb body nor disembodiedsoul, but as a puzzling, upward - pointing unity of psyche and soma whose precise limitations are the source of its — our — loftiest aspirations, whose weaknesses are the source of its — our — keenest attachments, and whose natural gifts may be, if we do not squander or destroy them, exactly what we need to flourish and perfect ourselves — as human beings.»

In their conclusion, the authors state that it is important for conservationists to see climate change not as one of numerous independent variables acting on species survival in mountain landscapes, but as an exacerbating force over the many direct human alterations to these areas.

«People then draw conclusions that the monkeys are not doing the same thing as humans because they are monkeys and not humans.

Isn't it reasonable to begin studying humans, as Maratsos does, with the conclusion that people are «basically a disappointment»?

So finally, even if in his Einsteinian pragmatism God could only be accurately described as the Old One, surely there was a faith in that image, perhaps an agnostic's faith, that made it presumptuous for any human being to come to any conclusion about the goodness or incomprehensible amorality of God's universe or the souls it contained until we at least learned the laws that governed it.

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

What their research gives them is not so much a conclusion about humans as a particular point of view.

Some researchers are pleased with the report, saying it is consistent with previous conclusions that safely altering the DNA of human eggs, sperm, or early embryos — known as germline editing — to create a baby could be possible eventually.

It marks the world's acceptance that climate change, driven by humans» greenhouse gas emissions, is about as close to a certainty as science can ever get — and that conclusion can not be covered up or waved away.

Abstract: Models investigating the effects of climate change and human - led land - use change on biodiversity have arrived at alarming conclusions, with the worst case scenarios suggesting extinction rates at such a level as to constitute a sixth mass extinction event in the earth's history.

That's the conclusion of a new study that used measurements of an array of human pressures on the ocean — from acidification to overfishing — to make a map of where those factors combined into stressed - out hotspots, as well as how the combinations of stressors had changed over time.

All five research groups came to the conclusion that last year's heat waves could not have been as severe without the long - term climatic warming caused by human emissions.

In conclusion, VASA is considered to be a valuable marker for detecting germ cells in monkeys, as in mice and humans.

Conclusions: Here we report on variants in NBAS, as a cause of bone fragility in humans, and expand the phenotypic spectrum associated with NBAS.

At least that's the conclusion of a recent study in Psychological Science that found that folks who felt socially disconnected were more likely to view a doll's face as human.

At least that's the conclusion of a recent study in Psychological Science that found that folks who felt socially disconnected — aka lonely — were more likely to view a doll's face as human.

It's not a slam - dunk conclusion, as research is conflicting, but there's enough evidence to show we need to look more closely at how these chemicals affect us humans.

Although NCI arrived at this conclusion due to the preponderance of thyroid cancer cases in women under age 45, human estrogens should be regarded as just one piece of the hormonal picture.