Now if, as I have suggested, Jesus Christ came to inaugurate a new way of constructive living, it is obvious from what
we know of human nature and of the human situation generally that there will be a very considerable pull back to easier, safer, and more comfortable ways of living.
We have to ask ourselves which of these is more probable, putting aside our preconceptions and keeping in mind what
we know of human nature.
Not only is there a lack of evidence for any of these things, they are contrary to what
we know of human nature.
Most of what is
known of human nature from mathematics and the physical sciences is based on reflection on those disciplines and hence is not normally thought to be part of their proper subject matter, but to belong more to the philosophy of science and mathematics.
Not exact matches
He
knew that there was a place for breakthrough technologies, and that the
nature of the tech business — indeed,
human nature itself — guaranteed that such milestones would arise.
The machine learning
nature of RankBrain presumably means that the system gets smarter and more sophisticated by building on what it already
knows and making connections without
human assistance.
Once you make these qualities into a cornerstone
of your hiring, you can smile at the fads and fancy scoring systems,
knowing that your business is being built on the one foundation that never changes —
human nature.
Commenting on the 2015
Human Spaces report when it was released, organisational psychology professor Sir Cary Cooper said: «The benefit
of design inspired by
nature,
known as biophilic design, is accumulating evidence at a rapid pace.
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.»
Let's just admit we don't
know the true origin
of any «creator» and understand that morals, ethics and our
human nature come from a deeper
nature than we probably understand, but more likely from a desire to continue the
human race, survival.
in some ways memory is a better key to the
nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum
of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to
know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past
human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure
of memory is more obvious.
In this sense we say things like, «it is in the
nature of human beings» or «it is natural for
human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to
know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etc..
Our brains
no doubt work on the same patterns as other brains in
nature, but the
human quest for knowledge is not just bounded by the needs
of survival.
«To
know human nature most deeply, one must become a student
of the sacred.»
People often can not understand the question
of human nature because their way
of understanding it is framed (whether they
know it or not) by the ideas
of positivist empiricism.
Yet for us this epistemological dimension
of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic
nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories
of human knowing which over the millennia
of their influence have whittled away wonder.
Later the idea gained ground that we can not «speak
of nature apart from
human perception in the historical development
of knowledge», that all knowledge is «a creative interaction between the
known and the knower» and that therefore there is no System
of scientific knowledge or
of technology which does not have the subjective purposes and faith - presuppositions
of humans built into it.
But the Virgin Birth, like the Cross itself, confounds what we think we
know; it confounds our belief that power, whether
human power or the brute force
of nature, prevails in the world.
Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures
no longer serve the deepest needs
of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons
of people, people don't
know who they are and feel depressed.
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.
With the philosophy
of Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), the
nature of reality was
no longer seen as writ large over the universe only to be discovered by the exercise
of reason but rather was what the
human mind perceived, interpreted, made it to be («Cogito, ergo sum.
We now
know that
nature can not take care
of itself, that
human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by
human expansion into their habitats, destruction
of their food supplies, pollution
of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.
no this drought is caused by your god for an entirely different reason; because your god taught
humans nature belongs to them, they has abused it to the point
of natures first man made drought.
Calvin asked whether
human beings have a natural knowledge
of God (his answer was yes); whether they can arrange what they
know from
nature into an intelligible pattern
known as natural theology (his answer was no); and whether redeemed — and only redeemed —
human beings can construct a legitimate theology
of nature by reclaiming
nature as a useful source
of the true knowledge
of God (his answer was yes).
I don't
know when we will realize that we
humans are too comically puny to be trying to fathom the infinite
nature of the forces that brought us about.
After all, how could it be that something so vanishingly small and insignificant as a
human could «
know» the true
nature of god, especially the god you believe in.
Though much
of today's science is applied science — the: discovery
of new processes and the making
of new products to satisfy
human wants — it all rests on the desire to find out with certainty what can be
known about the world
of nature.
I
know there are going to be a bunch
of people out there that scream that God can do anything and could create a sinless Child, but you can not ignore the
HUMAN nature of Jesus, so unless God created something other than human, and then placed it in Mary's womb, he inherited his human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original
HUMAN nature of Jesus, so unless God created something other than
human, and then placed it in Mary's womb, he inherited his human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original
human, and then placed it in Mary's womb, he inherited his
human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original
human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original Sin.
True pastoral care for souls begins with
knowing the Creator
of every soul, and
knowing his
nature, and
knowing his desire for
human hearts and
human lives.
Both offer large scale systematic accounts
of the
nature of reality in general, largely dismissing the suggestion that the only world we can
know is one whose main structure is determined by the
human cognitive system and which, therefore, only exists for us.
And, if we
know anything about
human nature, we
know we have a desire for certainty, a fear
of being wrong, a tendency to difine ourselves by our beliefs and to identify those like - minded, the «us»
of the them / us divide.
Only now that I
know that it is not a sin, but is a perfectly natural physiological aspect
of male
human nature.
To recognize this «given - ness» does not mean to accept the political or economic status quo, as if it reflected presumed orders
of nature; it is rather to acknowledge that limits in
knowing, as elsewhere, accompany our (common) existence as
human beings.
It is Whitehead's merit to have described the fundamental continuity running all through the world
of nature, from its most rudimentary forms to it most complicated and highest development
known to us in the mental life
of human beings.
There is
no longer serious doubt in my mind that
human life exists within the womb from the very onset
of pregnancy, despite the fact that the
nature of the intrauterine life has been the subject
of considerable dispute in the past.
It is not the ignorance
of not
knowing enough facts, but the ignorance
of being unaware
of or insensitive to
human nature.
It's just common,
human nature to look, as well as, normal
human reflexes to look out
of first curiosity, and then feel very uncomfortable and try not to look
knowing consciously in your mind what is taking place.
Through Israel's failures — stiff - neckedness --- we can come to
know the reality
of human history and the
nature of the universal God.
But we shall not really «see» the Kingdom
of God in these everyday miracles
of nature and
human life unless we look and look again, and not only look, but mark the spot at which the vision came to us, that we may
know where it will repay us to make further explorations.164
In either case, the
human is
no longer an ecstatic subject who receives the gift
of being and the grace that fructifies our
nature, but is himself the primary source
of transcendence.
But neither does she shy from addressing hard truths, for she
knows that democracy, far from being a machine that runs
of itself, is contingent upon truth and truths - about
human nature, the dynamics
of power, and what we can reasonably expect from history.
No doubt the church has been right in acknowledging the deity
of Christ and the Incarnation as the fullest measure
of the divine revelation
of which
human nature is capable; though it should be pointed out that the church as a rule undertook to stand fast and to hold the ground
of the traditional, historical faith, enshrined in the New Testament, and — as the histories
of dogma make clear - only took over metaphysical definitions which had already been hammered out on the anvils
of logical and exegetical disputation.
It shows us a radically transformed
human nature,
no longer defined by the twin evils
of sin and death.
Back in the early seventeenth century Francis Bacon, the first modern philosopher
of science, recognised that the developmental
nature of modern scientific methodology provided a truer vision
of how
human knowing arrives at formality than the scholastic theory
of abstraction.
The Armenian Church declines to accept the Council
of Chalcedon (451), which declares that Christ has two separate, but conjoined,
natures,
human and divine, a position
known as diophysitism.
If you wonder why storms and destruction happen in
nature, much
of it is because the forces
of nature are
no longer under
human control.
As believers,
of course, we
know that love is what fulfills our
human nature.
She is certainly right that our
human notions
of justice do not seem to be backed by the laws
of nature as we
know them and the way things happen on this planet.
It is not because he is in some seldom - visited realm beyond
nature and
human relations, but because we have experiences
of him as supreme in value and being in the world we
know.
His doctrine
of two separate substances, extended matter and thinking mind, each sort
of substance requiring, with God bracketed out
of the picture, nothing other than itself in order to exist, rather unceremoniously threw mind, that is, distinctively
human being, out
of nature and left philosophy with the hopeless task
of trying to figure out how a mind outside
of nature, a mind not
of nature, could ever really come to
know nature.