Sentences with phrase «ideas about human nature»

For those who have the patience, the chief reward of Participant Observer is a first - hand account of the wars of ideas about human nature that have dominated much of the intellectual history of the past half century.

The Holocaust was, in largest part, the consequence of ideas about human nature, human rights, the imperatives of history and scientific progress, the character of law, the bonds and obligations of political community.

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Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

Calvin understood that doubt was a part of the faith experience, because human nature itself finds ideas about God and His goodness so outside of what we can understand: «For unbelief is so deeply rooted in our hearts, and we are so inclined to it, that not without hard struggle is each one able to persuade himself of what all confess with the mouth: namely, that God is faithful.»

In the dominant world view the inclusion of human beings in nature meant that all these ideas about God acting in the hearts and minds of believers became irrelevant.

As you say, Marx appears to talk about ideas that are good, and you don't notice the essential elements that are missing from his ideologies — such as the rightful place of humans under God and in relation to one another — the recognition of imperfect and sinful nature of humanity, the inherent dignity of created things.

Let me spell out two very clear ideas about the nature and destiny of human - ness.

Since the followers of Jesus regarded him as essentially human, statements about his divine nature or function have been added to the authentic gospel, often by use of ideas derived from «mystery religions.

The understandability of the natural world is all the more impressive when one considers the fact that fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ideas should also lead to enjoyment and satisfaction in being able to answer or find answers to the kinds of questions that people ask about themselves and the natural world, and have cultural significance reflecting achievements in the history of science, inspiration from the study of nature and the impacts of human activity on the environment.

HG: I had no idea that the book would contribute significantly to a widespread change of mind about the nature of human intelligence.

This is history on a grand scale — a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far - reaching consequences of noble ideas.

Both authors will discuss the relationship of the idea of the avant to their own work and the extent to which it is or isn't a useful way to think about ideas of time and temporality, newness and oldness, chronology and succession, beforeness and afterness, and the layered, textured, multi — species spaces in which culture (and not just human culture) happens: Morton in relation to his writings on literature, art, music, and ecology in landmark texts such as Ecology Without Nature, The Ecological Thought, Hyperobjects, and Dark Ecology; and Wolfe in relation to his work as both author (Critical Environments, Animal Rites, and What Is Posthumanism?)

Her use of traditional forms — weaving, knitting, sewing and stitching — may at first seem crafty, but there's always something more sinister, more undecided in her work which suggests other ideas about the human condition that go beyond our attraction to nature.

Synthesizing ideas about art and animals raised in the morning's sessions, futurist and science fiction writer Bruce Sterling speculates about the nature of the human - animal interface in the twenty - first century and beyond.

At a recent talk at the Garrison Institute, Garrison Institute cofounder Jonathan F.P. Rose spoke with journalist Andrew Revkin about these ideas and his new book The Well - Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban about these ideas and his new book The Well - Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban About the Future of Urban Life.

This was part of a debate I was having with a Joshua, on Judith Curry's blog about the idea that we are unable to be autonomous, rational human beings because we are, by nature, biased.

It will explore the relationship between nature and humans, discussing ideas about sustainable design both inside and outside the home.