Sentences with phrase «if human nature»

Earlier that month, Paul Kingsnorth and George Monbiot did battle in the Guardian over whether the eco-apocalypse was inevitable or could just about be prevented if human nature could be contained by state institutions.

If human nature is a «blank slate,» then by definition we're all the same.

Only if human nature were radically malleable could a socialist revolution transform human beings to conform to a socialist utopia.

If human nature has the two aspects of «being» and «consciousness» (being and being aware), political romanticism corresponds more to the former element, socialism to the latter.

Not exact matches

We believed that the relationship between natural capital, or what nature provides for free, and production could be understood only if the corporations and foundations that focused on development embraced the idea that nature and human well - being are inseparable.

Because he thinks «human nature is basically positive,» if more people express their ideas or vote or volunteer, the results will ipso facto be basically positive.

When you do that, you know people are putting what they've learned into practice — and that's valuable because we all know that human nature is such that, if you don't practice what you learn, within 90 days you'll revert back to what you used to do.

If Roberts's experiment confirmed the scientific consensus about why the internet is so compelling, it also confirmed another evolving line of research — spending time in nature is really, really good medicine for the human brain.

It's a part of human nature to wonder if there is something better out there.

The results paint a familiar if less than hugely flattering portrait of human nature.

If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili... We're designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language.

It is simple human nature that if you have done this mental exercise and convinced yourself of a foregone conclusion, you will have difficulty rationalizing a down round investment.

Human nature being what it is, even if you're dedicated to taking emotion out of your investing, you're likely still subject to inherent biases.

But if you think beyond the internet, what actually brings the world together is built - in human nature — ...

Thus, if we recognize this part of human nature, we can avoid falling victim to the negative consequences of embracing false beliefs by actively researching topics that may seem preposterous to us if we have no direct experience with such topics.

It's a carpe diem mindset, which I believe is human nature regardless of whether one has emergency fund or not, especially if someone is in their late 30s and has some life experience.

Man has always perverted the truth, ever since the first time he fell for a lie... it's in human nature, or better said it's a human disease we're born with, till God does His work in our lives, if we allow Him....

The deep ecologists, pantheists, and so forth say that nature would cheer if man — the human person — were to disappear.

2) If you believe that 2 random particles, «uncreated» by the way, hit each other and created this universe, this world, which started as molten rock, which led to animals, nature, intelligent, conscience humans, etc., then, wow...

Basically, humans are humans and if we don't have a set of rules to go by we'll by nature corrupt & ruin things.

And even if a person has no faith (which I would think impossible given human nature.

Nature is where life comes from, and religions make people believe that we, as humans, are special, but nature says we are not, so honestly, ALL life would have some «afterlife» if Nature is where life comes from, and religions make people believe that we, as humans, are special, but nature says we are not, so honestly, ALL life would have some «afterlife» if nature says we are not, so honestly, ALL life would have some «afterlife» if we do.

Isn't human nature to be loving and charitable, and if one is not, is that a lack or religion or a human defect?

If a person thinks that nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.

it seems that many of us want to create a God in our image, we seem to say, «if I was god, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attributes.

But if, as the doctrine of the Catholic Church has it, human nature is wounded but not totally corrupt, then these human realities of reason, affection and sexuality, while they are affected by the wound in our nature and so must be redeemed, remain essentially good.

But it is not enough to win the war, if that means keeping alive the memory of God, nature, and the human person in an increasingly inhuman and antihuman age.

'' If any one asserts, that this sin of Adam, which in its origin is one, and being transfused into all by propagation, not by imitation, is in each one as his own, is taken away either by the powers of human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ... let him be anathema.»

The dominant theory and practice of development treat nature as if it were an inexhaustible resource for human beings.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

If the Church speaks of the nature of the human being as man and woman, and demands that this order of creation be respected, this is not some antiquated metaphysics.

If you begin there, «you see human life, dynamic, twofold, the giver and the receiver, he who does and he who endures, the attacking force and the defending force, the nature which investigates and the nature which supplies information, the request begged and granted — and always both together, completing one another in mutual contribution, together showing forth man.»

With all due respect if these are the things you learned by observing Osteen you aren't a very astute observer of human nature.

If nature is indifferent and moves blindly through time, its purposelessness could hardly provide an «example» for human purpose.

In magic anything might turn into anything else in the twinkling of an eye before one's face; but such nature - oriented, visual, spatial, magical imagery has little if anything to do with human transformation.

If these sciences are to afford valuable insights into human nature, they must be broadened to include philosophical considerations growing out of the critical scrutiny of science and technology as human undertakings.

In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.

Thus, if humans reproduced asexually rather than sexually then the «enfleshing» of God in a human nature would involve him being subject to a human's decision, rather than him being the initiator seeking thecooperation of the Virgin.

If man was to be redeemed, human nature must be changed from within, by the total offering of aninnocent mind and will for the sake of goodness and for the good of others.

It may sound harsh to say so, but a certain proportion of human life could be saved if areas known to be dangerous for human habitation were avoided, or the proper steps to control the forces of nature were taken where this is possible.

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically liberal, or that classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws of nature and of nature's God are the foundation of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle with the truth of God and the human being — returning to the first principles of the eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles of the thirteenth.

When we enter the tomb of suffering, we have about as much control over the logistics as when we hit the car brakes on black - ice — and if there's anything human nature craves, it's control.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

We ask now if this divine self - emptying and involvement in our human lot does not reveal the nature of love itself?

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

Second, if our knowledge of God is based exclusively on the history of Jesus Christ and not on pre-Christian philosophies, then the human attributes of Christ in time also tell us what God is in his very nature and being as God.

If redemption is about Grace alone, with no place for human nature, than how can there be a relationship between the human and the divine?

The Christian God would be more real and also more human if it were shown that he is absent, not because he wants to, but because of the nature of the situation.

But there is an inherent danger in this approach which derives from the fact that human nature makes it difficult for a group of people to share money and meals and chores and living space equitably and harmoniously, particularly if they try to do this in a democratic way.