Sentences with phrase «limits of human existence»

«The early explorers like Scott and Shackleton had to explore the limits of human existence, but we're now exploring the limits of life in general.

First, it requires exploring with people what theologian Paul Tillich called the «boundary situations,» those points at which modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and worthless.

God has accepted the lowly limits of human existence, especially those imposed on human beings by the exercise of oppressive political power omnipresent in history.

First it requires us to find and describe what Tillich called the «boundary situations,» that is, those points where modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense they are alienated from society and other people, or feel a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and having no worth.2.

What sets Lutherans apart is the sense of the impassable limits of human existence, a metaphysical reservation that the restless modern temper contradicts at every turn.

He saw in petty - bourgeois culture a moral realism that recognized the cost and limits of human existence, reinforcing a healthy skepticism of progress.

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I was «a person who held that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.»

Relationships are those limited aspects of human existence that are shared by two or more persons.

Hence authentic human existence could be understood as culminating in faith, the movement of faith could be limited to the negation of «objectivity,» and no occasion need arise for the necessity of a dialectical coincidence of the opposites.

God is evolution in His process of will implementation, humanity change in this process but not necesarily aware because our existence is very limited in time.and we are not as individual the ultimate objective, but God himself, Our existence is just part of the process for Him to become Himself in the future.We exist only in our time of existence.From pure Energy which is Him 13.7 billion years ago, to us humans 200,000 years ago, to what we are now today, to super humans in the future, to what He will be in the far Future.THE ULTIMATE HIMSELF Is the objetive, you are just part of the process you IDIOT.

Rollo May has put us particularly in his debt by his insistence that an «ontology of human existence» is required even with the strict limits of psychological theory.16 But now we go beyond the general doctrine of man to the Christian answer to the religious question.

The religious objections have mostly aimed to protect God's sovereign freedom to do what He pleases with his creation, a freedom which, the dissenters argue, would be limited by the existence of universal and unbreakable laws of nature, or indeed of inevitable laws of history or human behaviour.

after clarifying the validity of this evolving faith based on the material process, the big challenge now is for us humans a coresponding development in the spiritual aspect of our existence, though we are confident of His guidance through evolution, we with our limited insights and intellegence will be able to develop and come up with guide lines in our moral lives.

a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

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.

Miller remains limited to the web of human relationships, and does not acknowledge the theological dimension of human existence.

Some would add also that sin roots in anxiety and the frustration of human finitude as the ego attempts to rebel against the limits set by our existence.2 Redemption is granted when one becomes aware of his presumption and self - righteousness, repents in humility and turns to Christ in faith.

But God's own self - sacrifice is itself the criterion of human existence as well, ans in our imitation of God's own self - emptying, we would discover our own proper limits.

So the whole existence of the human race is rounded off completely like a sphere, and the ethical is at once its limit and its content.

We should learn something of the underlying purpose beneath the shifting human scene, and how we could cooperate with it; we should learn how we could make the best of this limited imperfect world and how men could best prepare themselves for the next stage of their existence.

There is a patterning or ordering of the world and of human existence that prescribes such limits.

Our subconscious understanding of the laws of physics and the natural laws He has set forth to allow our existence to come about can not be observed, and to say that He is flawed because we see disease is viewing things from a very limited point of view, that being a living human being with an aversion to disease and loss of health.

They understand logical limits as arising out of the limitations of human understanding rather than being based upon the nature of existence (Griffin, «Response» 257).

They demonstrate human capacity to transcend the limits of life on the one hand and, on the other, remind us of the transitoriness of human existence within the confinement of space and time.

In the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary context.

She argues that it has been a serious mistake for interpreters of Whitehead «to limit the application of his basic ontological category of existence — his actual entity — to just two kinds of existents: subatomic entities, such as electrons, protons, photons and the like, and human percipient experience.»

This is, ultimately, the main objective of our human existence: to heal our wounds by rising above and beyond our limited programs, patterns and beliefs.

At a moment when human life is still defined by biological limits and life spans, these artists remind us that we are on the cusp of technologically augmented existence, in which consciousness itself will be altered.

Sometimes it looks to me as if some of my brothers and sisters in the current generation of elders are so singlemindedly focused on the accumulation of wealth and power, in feathering their own gigantic nests, exchanging secret handshakes in exclusive clubs, flying private jets, sailing yachts and visiting exotic hideaways, that they have forgotten how human life depends upon Earth's limited resources and frangible ecosystem services for its very existence.

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

We forthrightly deny the existence of human limits and Earth's limitations and dare anyone to question these views.