Sentences with phrase «kind of human understanding»

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For a start, it's the slogan for the kind of protectionism that is generally understood to reduce economic efficiency (and hence to reduce human well - being).

But as a human being he understands all kinds of situations, and he is open to all kinds of people, including those with different sexual characteristics.»

And he made human fathers and he gives us the example of good fathers so we can understand the kind of secure relationship of love and protection he offers to us.»

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

But we must go farther and see that propriety of scale is invariably associated with propriety of another kind: an understanding and acceptance of the human place in the order of Creation — a proper humility....

In other words, the sacrifice that saves the world is first of all a kind of commerce between the human and the divine, something the Hindu understands as well as the Christian.

I am enlightened and I know it and I choose to take responsibility for my actions and understand that the actions of human kind will have global repercussions that won't be solved by faith.

It was the age of Confucius in China, of the Buddha in India, and of Mahavira, founder of Jainism, the period also when the principal Hindu Upanishads were written, of Lao - tzu and the flourishing of Taoism in China, of the prophet Zoroaster in the Middle East, of the great transformative prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and second - Isaiah in Israel, and finally this was the period of the birth of philosophy and science and what we call Western culture in Greece, all these developments at the same time arising independently in different cultures for reasons not yet fully understood — a kind of quickening of human consciousness all over the globe.

Is this kind of comparison with other species which are closest to mankind helpful for understanding human behaviour and commitments?

That kind of critical thinking has yielded the most rapid advance in human understanding of the world in history.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

The constitution of a society prescribes the forms of justice only when it provides for that kind of interaction among individuals, and between individuals and the physical environment, which creates the human mind, and which sustains that scope of understanding, power of action and richness of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower animals.

According to the Christian witness, faith is the kind of basic human attitude or disposition that can be formally characterized as an existential self - understanding, or understanding of our own existence, in relation to others and to the encompassing whole of ultimate reality.

Judgments of these kinds, and the catechetical activities that go with them, are normative: They imply an understanding of what human flourishing and human corruption are like.

If we are to understand human freedom in Whitehead's terms, we must begin by considering the kind of freedom that human experience shares with all the other occasions of experience.

Even in the understanding of human ethical behavior this kind of view has proved unsatisfactory.

And I still like it even though I understand and agree with your dislike of church «vision,» because this hymn isn't about a vision for the future of an organization, or a vision for any kind of institutionalized growth, but a vision of the constant presence of God in our lives, and in our very being, denying our need for material wealth and human approbation for the true spiritual fulfillment that comes from God.

Other writers have attempted to explain the capacity of narrative to summarize the complexities of self - understanding: «Narrative history of a certain kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of human actions.

A number of recent news stories have had a similar kind of message: animals viscerally understand certain mathematical operations better than humans do.

Secondly, any human female must have some kind of programming to be able to understand the wants, the needs of a small creature that can't speak.

But programming Tell Me Dave to understand even one kind of order is tricky: humans have an annoying tendency to ask for the same thing in a variety of different ways, or to combine several discrete steps into one short command.

«This kind of research is needed to fully understand the bidirectional nature of the human - dog relationship.»

The new study's method of projecting images into the womb and watching the fetus's reaction also «opens up all kinds of new doors to understand human development,» Johnson says.

That kind of monitoring helped scientists understand the factors that trigger flu viruses to jump from animals to humans — and it may one day lead to a similar understanding for Ebola.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

«Because we see these kinds of changes happening in jumping spiders when fed poor diets we might discover things that help us better understand macular degeneration and other human - centric problems,» says Morehouse and Buschbeck.

At first, White was convinced that humans would understand the obvious implications of his ice - core data: The consequences of human - caused climate change «would basically cripple any kind of modern society.»

And that kind of understanding could be a model to help the broader understanding of addiction in humans as well, Flagel says.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

Marshall cautions that, «to get a complete picture, we need to combine this kind of network analysis approach with an understanding of what's happening on the ground — What are the human actions?»

Sometimes, this takes the form of understanding recent adaptations that have evolved within human populations, which gives us an insight into the challenges that our ancestors faced and the kind of traits that helped them survive and prosper.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

After all rats and mice are obviously very different from humans, so how can their simpler brains help us understand the same kind of complex symptoms as humans?

The hunt for any kind of extraterrestrial life is one of the most profound searches in human history and could, ultimately, help us understand our place in the galaxy.

First of all I stumbled across this site and think it is absolutely amazing with what your write and is already giving me a great understanding and made everything so clear and the fact you reply to everyone says a lot for yourself and the kind of human being you are.

«And you can work people really hard and still understand there are limits, that sometimes you just got ta say, «Nope, that's enough and any more is just kind of stupid human tricks.»»

While I understand that is kind of the whole point to Movie 43 — I sensed a mocking, if not altogether disdainful view towards not just Hollywood (hence Dennis Quaid's role in this film) but the entire human race given the level of gruesomeness — there simply must have been at least a baker's dozen different and far better ways to shape this rebellious beast.

I do it all the time with people I know because it allows me to show to them that I'm human, that I understand my flaws, and that I'm comfortable with my shortcomings... kind of.

Etre Et Avoir is above all a tribute to a forgotten kind of education, one that champions human values, feeds the intellect and strenghtens the character, with respect and understanding of the essential needs of children.

People often tell children to use their imagination when approaching a task, which comes from the understanding that imagination is a kind of hotbed of potential for learning and creativity in humans.

The need of the hour is to understand that, nature is always peaceful naturally, if human kind fails to understand his / her true nature and implement the warlike situation by himself, who can take responsibility?

It's a theory that was developed to document the fact that human beings have very different kinds of intellectual strengths and that these strengths are very, very important in how kids learn and how people represent things in their minds, and then how people use them in order to show what it is that they've understood.

Q: In Darwin's Radio, you wrote about the evolution of a new human species that is triggered by an HERV, or Human Endogenous Retrovirus — which, if I understand correctly, is a kind of ancient virus that has entered into human DNA and persisted there in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of yhuman species that is triggered by an HERV, or Human Endogenous Retrovirus — which, if I understand correctly, is a kind of ancient virus that has entered into human DNA and persisted there in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of yHuman Endogenous Retrovirus — which, if I understand correctly, is a kind of ancient virus that has entered into human DNA and persisted there in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of yhuman DNA and persisted there in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years.

By showing your dog how to have a new kind of relationship with their human, and by showing you what your dog is capable of, we cut through the uncertainty and confusion to enhance understanding and confidence in the human / canine relationship.

Yes, this was a landmark understanding and launched human kind into a new world of control of our destiny and the shape of the dogs we partnered with.

Which I found kind of hard to understand, since as far as I knew, canine influenza was just one of many bacteria and viruses that cause the dog version of the human cold, what we mostly call «kennel cough.»

These are the things that keep me awake at night: Can dogs really understand human speak or do they just sort of - kind of following intonations and hand signals?

One of the most accomplished curators anywhere, Hans Ulrich Obrist has devoted his life to the pursuit of a categorical understanding of the artistic tendencies of his time, both in his role as what he calls an «exhibition - maker» and as a kind of human archive of art - historical knowledge.

What's important, to my mind, is not to confuse this kind of normal, healthy scientific debate with more basic understanding of human contributions to, and responses to, climate change.