Sentences with phrase «limits of human experience»

To create games that broaden the limits of the human experience that raise current questions of our time.

Not exact matches

In the case of microbes which feed on humans, a society with limited potential for intensity of experience may achieve a measure of endurance by destroying societies of occasions which form the necessary environment for dominant human occasions of greater potential intensity of experience.

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.»

None of this is easy, because my speculation of how to raise children is limited to my puny life experiences and human emotions.

Berger wishes to speak of «a God who is not made by man, who is outside and not within ourselves,» but he limits his act of faith in such a God to projections outward from common human experience, i.e., to signals of transcendence70 The result is that Berger is left finally with his own experience alone, a consequence that weakens his understanding not only of Christian theology but ultimately of play as well.

This, of course, is not to say he is not rightly esteemed truly human, a man of flesh and blood with the peculiar Biblical force of that phrase; indeed it might be claimed that the very stress laid on the limited character of his experience makes us more vividly aware of the reality of his human nature.

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.

Mechanism, for instance, began as a limited theory about the structure of matter, and was subsequently extrapolated throughout the range of human experience.

He called them evidence of God's «alien work,» which brought Luther the human being to his limits; he believed that only there, in experiencing those limits, could he be convinced to throw himself into the arms of the One he otherwise refused to trust.

When they experience limits and ambiguities — and which of us as human persons does not, from time to time?

Being human being we have a limited knowledge, we experiences impossibilities due to of our limited vision, thinking and approach but there is nothing limited or impossible for the CREATOR.

In Whitehead's view (and mine), occasions of experience are not limited to the human ones.

If Christ is our redeemer through sharing fully in the human lot, surely he needed to have experienced the deeply limited nature of human knowledge: the ambiguity, confusion, misunderstandings, and perplexing situations which constantly arise and assail our lives.

Process theologians argue for a «public» theology, not limiting truth claims to a confessional stance with its own internal criteria, but open to the public criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry.

Because, it is claimed, evaluation presupposes valuation as a condition of its possibility, any merely «disinterested» or «value - free» understanding of human reflection is of necessity excluded.20 Any consideration of the evidence of experience could only in the nature of the case ever illustrate, but logically could not falsify what must always necessarily be the case, even if such a consideration could well force a limited reconstrual of the hermeneutical analysis always itself presupposed in the strictly conceptual presuppositional analysis which uncovers the necessity of such elemental valuing.21

Indeed, it is awareness of limits that allows us to share human experiences across widely diverse cultures.

However, the experience of limits is universal in human experience, so it seems reasonable to suppose that all religions bear some relationship to this experience.

The numerous, more limited, brain events occur in portions of the same region in which the unified human experience is taking place.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

It is letting go of these ego / human / limiting thoughts that we can experience God and commune with the Angels and Masters.

Although each occasion is obligated to constitute itself within the limits of its initial data and the tolerance of the environment, it exercises spontaneity in doing so, and when the occasions are parts of complex human experience, that spontaneity might be significant.

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

Scientific, philosophical, and religious thoughts, are all flawed with our limited human perceptions based on our own human experiences and the evolution of those thoughts over time.

In spite of the common understanding that process theists limit God to persuasive action and evangelicals affirm that God acts coercively both sides agree that God ordinarily works in human experience through mutual interaction, or persuasion (Hasker, «Response» 41).

We may accept the writings of Augustine, Aquinas, Luther and Barth — and indeed, the Bible itself — as the expressions of limited human beings attempting to articulate for their own time and in their own terms their experience of ultimate truth.

But at the same time, rightly enough, it would be insisted that Whitehead's immediate experience can not be conflated with Bradley's; for in Whitehead, immediate experience operates as foundational only within the limited area of animal or human cognition and can not, as in Bradley's idealist metaphysic, be identified with the substratum itself.

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.»

I will have to remember that little gem, «There will be other people out there who haven't been brought up with such limited expectations for a book full of human experience and wisdom and varied ideas about God, alienation and redemption through love.»

Most important, a time limit poses the crucial question for experiencing the people dynamic in our kind of society: «Can I learn to relate quickly and in mutually - satisfying depth with these fellow human beings?»

Process theologians have argued for a «public» theology not limiting truth claims to a confessional stance with its own internal criteria but open to the public criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

This is the so - called hard problem of neuroscience, and it lies at the outer limit of what material explanations will say about the experience of being human.

Poor socialisation can cause a lot of issues in a lot of Border Collies These tend to be those that have been puppy farm bred or born on a farm with limited access to human contact and domestic experience.

Although there are limited amounts of research into the effects of passive smoking on dogs specifically, I think it is safe to assume that they will also be subject to the myriad of problems experienced by humans who are subjected to second and third hand smoke.

In fact, outside of a limited run with Battlefield 4, I didn't have a chance to experience any of the other PS4 launch titles because I was too busy trying to save all of the humans in Resogun!

His lifelong pursuit of research centered around activating one's imagination and elevating human consciousness through media has resulted in crafting highly unique, one - of - a-kind experiences not limited to video games, but also a wide range of creative endeavors in music, music videos and live performances.

Unlike the single player campaign where the tension and suspense is so thick you could choke on it, Dead Space 2's online multiplayer offers a much more frantic experience as the human team attempts to complete various objectives within a preset time limit while a never - ending spawn of Necromorphs do everything to stop them.

What is true of Rothko and Sugimoto becomes true of all of us when we attend to their experience — if we encounter the limits of human feeling and perception that Rothko's paintings and Sugimoto's photographs represent.

For Burke or Kant, it meant the experience of human limits, notably the limits of rationality.

Fields such as astronomy, cosmology, and theoretical physics have advanced an understanding of the universe that is incongruous with everyday human observation — our terrestrial experiences limit our perception of the universe we inhabit.

Working with scientific and technical experts she makes immersive, multi-media installations that explore the limits of the human and how we experience non-human, natural and technological forms.

I've wondered about the limits of virtual experience in altering actual human priorities and behaviors.

Bees experience forces 30 times greater than gravity as they buzz for pollen — near the limit of human endurance, notes the New York Times in an article about buzz pollination.

As future climate change is dependent upon emissions of greenhouse gases, efforts to mitigate those emissions can reduce the likelihood that human or natural systems will experience a limit to adaptation.

Our perceptions of a vast difference between the emotion experience of human and animals has afforded us the opportunity to presume dominion over them, limiting to what extent we will offer our sympathies and protection.

As humans, we fail at the limits of our experience.

Entertainment based on space - travel can perhaps give us a glimpse of the experiences future generations might encounter when testing the limits of human discovery.

Human Resources students usually need to gain hands - on experience through a limited period employment in the HR department of any organization.

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