Sentences with phrase «including humans and nature»

As a result, all things, including humans and nature, are out of their created order, If there is no God, then this world is all we have.

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When the catena of kaleidoscopic identities is open - ended, the meaningfulness of universal human nature and thus of everything predicated on that — including universal human rights — becomes vanishingly small.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

I am no expert in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the human person.»

Most highly educated people who understand quantum physics and it's related fields realize that humans might not ever be able to understand everything, including the origins of the Universe, but it is human nature to look for it and to try to understand as much as we can about the universe and how everything interacts.

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.

With its emphasis on nature as a vast web of interdependence that is alive through and through, it affirms with Schweitzer that individual creatures, human included, have intrinsic value.

And because of the common sense nature of the Golden Rule, most humans to include myself and my friends follow said ruAnd because of the common sense nature of the Golden Rule, most humans to include myself and my friends follow said ruand my friends follow said rule.

On the other hand, finding a unitary principle for the manifold of discreet entities, which includes human experience, is made problematic by a denial of divine relativity because the relative nature of God did at least that unify the world into an ordered and organic whole.

All religions including Christianity, all cultures and all secular ideologies are in informal and formal dialogues about what is the meaning of our common humanity and about the path of common action - responses to the situation from their respective understanding of the nature and destiny of the human selfhood.

Again, I think that it has had a lot to say, including some very important insights about the physical universe, human nature, history, and about our knowledge of all of these.

It is a merit of modern existentialist thinkers, including nontheists like Martin Heidegger and Jean - Paul Sartre, that they understand and insist upon this truth about human nature.

Any universe created by the multiverse generator would need to include both (a) the positive conditions necessary for life (i.e., the fine - tuned laws of nature) and (b) the negative conditions necessary for human existence (i.e., the absence of V - class objects).

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

Thus I am obliged to say, with H. H. Price, that theism, at least in a Christian sense, is «a metaphysics of love»; and with this, I am obliged to affirm that «the world», including nature in its farthest stretches as well as in the intimacy of human existence, is given its proper «interpretation» only when «the key» to it is found in Jesus Christ.

But, as I say, much more needs to be included about the nature of the human body and the reasons why the marital context is the morallycorrect context within which sexual intimacy is expressed.

However, I also believe that the misery of hell includes a physical dimension for the simple reason that human beings are embodied beings by nature, and the damned will be resurrected in their bodies.

Like her sister Oriental Orthodox Churches, including the Coptic and Syriac churches, the Armenian Church holds instead that Christ has one combined human - divine nature, in which the human and divine nonetheless remain distinct, a position known as miaphysitism.

He chaired the World Council Conference on Faith, Science, and the Future (at MIT in 1979) and is the author of several books, including The Human Presence: An Orthodox View of Nature, in which he addresses environmental problems from an Orthodox perspective.

Although Marx and Engels accepted Darwinism in explaining the animal world, including human physiology and anatomy, they thought that human history manifested the uniquely human freedom to transcend nature.

Not to pile on, but we'd think the joys and pains marriage and children bring would deepen a writer's insight into human nature, including his own, and make him a better writer.

The demands of «the human spirit for the time include authentic understandings, many of them rooted in the Gospels and in the deepest Christian intellectual traditions, about the nature of human existents.

From every possible source (including art, literature, theological thought, drama, the behavioral sciences, and his experiences with human relationships), he needs to widen and deepen his understanding of human nature and the human situation.

In September, Time magazine organized a debate between Collins and Dawkins which touched on all the crucial issues: the false idea that science and faith should be held as not overlapping; the place of Darwinian evolution in the plan of God; the fine - tuning of the physical constants of nature; the literal interpretation of Genesis; the place of miracles including the incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus; and the origin of the moral law within the human heart.

That includes an appreciation of the continuity between humanity and the rest of nature while at the same time emphasizing the distinctiveness of the human.

McGrath suggests a new reformulation of natural theology, seeing its task as offering an interpretation of nature based on Trinitarian faith, including an account of human engagement with nature in the moral and aesthetic dimensions as well.

Our proposal also entails a distinction between the Christ, that Word or creative possibility specifically addressed to the human situation and actualizable by a man, and the Logos, which is the totality of creative possibilities inherent in the primordial or nontemporal nature of God, actualizable by the diverse creatures appropriate to them, including intelligent living beings on other worlds.

This will be given in a way that fits in with man's nature and through the Incarnation God shows us how: His Son becomes man and He relates to us through His human nature, and this includes the flesh, since this is an intrinsic part of our ability to relate to others and also to God.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

Each particular part is defined by and dependent on the total context».42 In this ecological view of a nature which includes human beings, nothing is wholly self - subsistent.

For process thought, «nature» includes the total experienced and experienceable world; it comprises the whole natural order with its power of creating, recreating, and redeeming the human person.

There is thus a cosmic, divine hierarchy in which human values, including equality, make sense and there is a clear notion that God is above and superior to men just as the laws of nature transcend and take priority over the laws of political society.

Affinities, Brown notes, include «the social or communal stress as a safeguard against individualistic Christianity, the stress on praxis, a methodology arising out of the human situation rather than being imposed on it, a passionate commitment to the dispossessed, and a recognition of the systemic nature of evil» (p. 141).

And a genuine appetite for spiritual love also disposes the human person to receive the fullness of the truth, including the truth about the nature of the human person and the normative content of the moral liAnd a genuine appetite for spiritual love also disposes the human person to receive the fullness of the truth, including the truth about the nature of the human person and the normative content of the moral liand the normative content of the moral life.

The creationist position not only vilifies the legitimate work of dedicated scientists; what is more, it suppresses the essential insight of religion that we may trust the universe, including the human mind and its capacity to grasp rationally the nature of things.

Other celebrity cocktails include Holly Madison's Holly Mad - ICE - on, Carrot Top's Heat Miser, Human Nature's Inhumane Nature, Laura Croft's Hypnoti - School Girl, and FANTASY's Fant - ICE - see.

We started with a focus on the SOPA protests and Chris Dodd's new education on the power of internet politics, but we went much farther afield, including ruminations on the nature of a post-manufacturing America... yep, we did some good, old - fashioned nerding out (in which the eternal subject of a genocidal war of robots vs. humans did of course come up).

If «directs» includes a case where a US President «asks» (or directs someone else to «ask») a member of the Supreme Court to rule in a certain way while making it clear that it is in the best interest (financial, safety, privacy, etc) of the Supreme Court member to rule that way, then I'm sure it has at various times already happened... just part of politics and human nature.

Quite rightly, the novel suggests that the nature of things is ultimately unknowable, but that our capacity for love, including the narrator's love for her ward, Gerald's love for feral street children and the bond between the humans and the strange beast, Hugo, is all that make sense, all that matters.

The same domineering institutions, ideologies, and sensibilities that rationalize the domination of human by human also rationalize the domination of nature, including non-human animals.

A new, slightly morbid study based on the calorie counts of average humans suggests that human - eating was mostly ritualistic, not dietary, in nature among hominins including Homo erectus, H. antecessor, Neandertals, and early modern humans.

Both papers, published online November 2 in Nature and already attracting controversy, support the proposal that modern humans established a European culture dating to 45,000 years ago that included sophisticated stone tools and personal ornaments.

The detailed plans include giant monitors in public squares showing images from the Hubble telescope, to remind us of our place in the universe, billboards to remind us of the importance of forgiveness, university departments dedicated to human relationships offering classes in facing illness, being alone and reconnecting with nature.

Fuentes» recent books include «Evolution of Human Behavior,» «Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature,» «Conversations on Human Nature (s)» and the forthcoming «The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional.»

His current research includes cooperation and community in human evolution, ethnoprimatology and multispecies anthropology, evolutionary theory, and interdisciplinary approaches to human nature (s).

More recently, a report by Kevin N. Laland of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his colleagues in Nature Reviews Genetics, building on an earlier proposal by Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Peter J. Richerson of U.C. Davis, argued that human culture, defined as any learned behavior, including technology, has been the dominant natural selection force on modern humans.

However, Lungarella also cautions that the nature of curiosity in biological entities, including humans, remains extremely complex and poorly understood: «I am not sure if it's possible to map curiosity onto an algorithm.

Wright is careful to include both genes and environment in his account of human nature.

Her research is both translational and clinical in nature and centers on the human genetics of healthy skin aging and diseases related to aging skin, including new treatments for advanced basal cell skin cancers.

The three studies, published in tomorrow's issue of Nature, push the limits of structural biology and set an important precedent for understanding how molecular pumps work, including those in humans, notes Werner Kühlbrandt of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.