Sentences with phrase «in human intellect»

So, if you believe in human intellect, you are believing we can win this battle through developing new clean technologies: and we're doing that in my State.»

This same movement leads to distinct concepts in the human intellect and to material objects relatively exclusive of one another.

Not exact matches

In its broadest sense, design may be defined as the rigorous application of human intellect and creativity in the search for beautiful, efficient and sustainable solutionIn its broadest sense, design may be defined as the rigorous application of human intellect and creativity in the search for beautiful, efficient and sustainable solutionin the search for beautiful, efficient and sustainable solutions.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

The discipline and penances of the body and soul are born out of an awareness of the evil which exists in the person's attachment to the fallen world through the senses, the intellect, and the spirit.They are meant to assist in the purification of these fallen attachments within the human person.

In this paradigm the new truths discovered and grasped by the human intellect necessarily stand in a non-contradictory relationship to the one who said «I am the way, the truth and the light.&raquIn this paradigm the new truths discovered and grasped by the human intellect necessarily stand in a non-contradictory relationship to the one who said «I am the way, the truth and the light.&raquin a non-contradictory relationship to the one who said «I am the way, the truth and the light.»

I fear, however, that Barr has misunderstood my argument and possibly misconceived the issue of whether the human intellect can discern the reality of design in the world of living things.

In the case of matter below man this is through relationship to the Mind of God that frames the whole of creation, and in the case of human nature through direct integration with the individual and personal centre of control and direction (intellect and will) that we call the «soul»In the case of matter below man this is through relationship to the Mind of God that frames the whole of creation, and in the case of human nature through direct integration with the individual and personal centre of control and direction (intellect and will) that we call the «soul»in the case of human nature through direct integration with the individual and personal centre of control and direction (intellect and will) that we call the «soul».

What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine with our unaided human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by faith.

Richardson is very skillful, however, in the use of selectionand evocative quotation, ensuring Newman is allowed to speak for himself in clarifying the process by which the human mind makes it possible to subscribe to an act of religious faith which is seen to be an act of the intellect.

Did you ever think when you are typing words, gathering your thoughts, deciding / choosing what to say, and using the best intellect you can find in your brain; that you are conscious in these thoughts / decisions, and that your eyes / hands / brain synapses, are all part of the lense (of the human body) that you are able to see and control to the limitations inherent in its essence?

It has deeply enriched my appreciation of the universal reach of the human spirit to encounter giant intellects and cosmic spirits in Asia and Africa.

Furthermore, regarding «everything that we as humans see and interact with», in that world every «superior intellect» has a physical body and a brain, is mortal, and was born and will die.

If metaphysics is defined as the human intellect's self - understanding, then metaphysics comprises contingent as well as necessary truths — although even the contingent truths it comprises are such that in one sense they can not be coherently denied and, therefore, must be believed, if only implicitly or nonreflectively..

But that is not to say that God does not have qualities commonly associated with human personality, such as awareness, intellect and most importantly in my opinion, love, which is connected to peace, and which I see as the heart of my own spirituality.

Believe in God is not solely found in intellect (although if at least little intellect isn't used it turns kinda silly) at it's core it is a spirit thing that surpasses human communication and imposable to believe or understand unless experienced.

A fifth dimension of the theological task is to present theological insights in ways that captivate the human imagination and emotions, not simply the intellect.

In a world ruled by education and intellect, we feel like we lose credibility without our human knowledge or wisdom.

«9 Hence, while Whitehead and Bergson share a suspicion about the over-intellectualization of reality Whitehead thinks Bergson is committed to some sort of necessity about this «built - in» to the nature of the human intellect.

If Charles Hartshorne is correct that «the intellect's self - understanding... is the innate, a priori, or metaphysical» (CSPM 31), then, provided «intellect» is taken as it evidently is in the dictum nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu, namely, as the human intellect, I do not see how all metaphysical...

To act and know that we are acting, to come into touch with reality and even to live it,... such is the function of human intelligence... From the ocean of life, in which we are immersed, we are continually drawing something, and we feel that our being, or at least the intellect that guides it, has been formed therein by a kind of local concentration.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

«The massive desolation of the intellect and spirits and the human futures of these millions of young people in their neighborhoods of poverty» is a «national horror hidden in plain view,» Kozol writes, quoting Roger Wilkins.

The reason of Jefferson and Paine and of what Henry May calls the Moderate Enlightenment that informed the Constitution did not rebel against the providential order, but at most rejected the received ways of understanding that order» tradition, authority, revelation, scripture» in favor of trusting in fresh human intellect.

The native genius and character of the several peoples of the Western world; the profound significance of the Greek intellect still potent in the analytic mood of the present; the constructive, organizing genius of Rome: all these and much more have gone into the making of the modern dwelling of the human spirit.

«In the Bible, the heart is the core of the human person, where all his or her different dimensions intersect: body and spirit, interiority and openness to the world and to others, intellect, will and affectivity... Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.»

Like Plato, and in contrast to philosophers who exalt pure intellect, the Bishop of Hippo understood the eros of the mind» the role that love, desire, and «yearning» play in the process of human knowing.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

The relation of love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance of human life; and third, that both seek the same object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.

I reply at once that where the character, as something distinguished from the intellect, is concerned, the causes of human diversity lie chiefly in our differing susceptibilities of emotional excitement, and in the different impulses and inhibitions which these bring in their train.

We are and always have been one world family, joined in the spiriling genetics of all human beings, joined through the emotions and intellect that define our species — for better or worse.

These glosses called into question the creation of the world in time, the role of the senses and the imagination in human knowing, the individuality (and personal responsibility) of the human intellect and will, the immortality of the human composite of body and soul, the role of divine Providence, the simple standard of one truth governing both theology and philosophy, and other foundations of both Catholic faith and empirical (as distinct from gnostic) reason.

Take, for instance, St Augustine's use of a human being's mental capacities as an analogy of the processions of the Divine Persons in the Trinity: just as the Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, a concept in the human mind is conceived (or born) in the intellect and from this breaks forth a movement of love in the will.

In gentle characters, where devoutness is intense and the intellect feeble, we have an imaginative absorption in the love of God to the exclusion of all practical human interests, which, though innocent enough, is too one - sided to be admirablIn gentle characters, where devoutness is intense and the intellect feeble, we have an imaginative absorption in the love of God to the exclusion of all practical human interests, which, though innocent enough, is too one - sided to be admirablin the love of God to the exclusion of all practical human interests, which, though innocent enough, is too one - sided to be admirable.

Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of hiscreation» (299).

The key is to appreciate the fact that the antinomies are not necessary but of man's making: «They did not come from the things themselves but from an automatic transfer to speculation of habits contracted in action, and what a careless attitude of the intellect had done, an effort on the part of the intellect could undo; this for the human mind would be a liberation» (CM 71).

«There is real and genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced of a truth, or of what he holds to be a truth, and when he at the same time recognizes the right of those who deny this truth to exist, and to contradict him, and to speak their own mind, not because they are free from truth but because they seek truth in their own way, and because he respects in them human nature and human dignity and those very resources and living springs of the intellect and of conscience which make them potentially capable of attaining the truth he loves, if someday they happen to see it.

First, we are given an in - depth discussion of the process of practical reasoning; the moral evaluation of human action; a philosophical psychology that draws together the roles of intellect, will, and emotion in human acts and in the development of virtuous or vicious moral character; the nature of sin and the foundational role of conversion to Christ; and the place of law in the Christian life.

But the latter abound so that we can afford to overlook the innumerable failures and self - deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything human failure is a matter of course), and we can also overlook the verbiage of a good deal of the mind - cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.

As Kenneth Shine and I emphasized 15 years ago in this journal, if science is to flourish and attain its appropriate role in aiding human progress, «It is incumbent upon all of us in the scientific community to help provide a research environment that, through its adherence to high ethical standards and creative productivity, will attract and retain individuals of outstanding intellect and character to one of society's most important professions.»

Rather than asking you diagnostic questions, and relying on your conscious mind and intellect for answers, kinesiologists look to your muscles and movement for answers about what's going on in your body (human kinetics, is the scientific study of human movement).

With a larger than life persona outshining even the calculated theatricality of the royal costumes, she effortlessly conflates the dual nature of Elizabeth's personal and private lives, the keen intellect, the touchy egotism, and the achingly human vulnerability that manifests in the acute jealously and peculiar pride she feels in having forsaken husband and children.

Featuring very little virtual reality effects in the first two acts, we are witness to Jobe embarking on this journey from a developmentally challenged man who advances beyond the range of human intellect in such a short amount of time.

And Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) finds himself in the middle of them as he gets much more than he bargained for when he is selected to evaluate how well a newly developed artificial intelligence represents human intellect and behavior.

In the Harvard Business Review, Seidman writes about the shift to a human economy, focused on «hired hearts» and away from the knowledge economy, which held «sheer intellect» in highest regarIn the Harvard Business Review, Seidman writes about the shift to a human economy, focused on «hired hearts» and away from the knowledge economy, which held «sheer intellect» in highest regarin highest regard.

Society plainly has an interest in upgrading its human talent across the board, as well as in narrowing harmful and unjust learning gaps and ensuring that everybody has a fighting chance to develop their intellect and skills to the maximum.

If humans without genius level intellects can figure it out, why can't fictional characters (who could really figure out anything the writer wants them to, in theory) who are off - the - charts smart do so?»

«As in all the Commissario Brunetti novels, Venice, brooding over the human comedy, Venice watchful of the sea is always a main character... Leon's mysteries are always welcome companions because they offer the intellect, as well as the heart, the food they crave.»

We humans appear to be programmed to use our emotions rather more facilely than our cold intellect in the investment decision - making process, while at the same time ignoring, or even denying it.