Sentences with phrase «limits of human possibilities»

What kind of blindness or perversity prompts this vapid idealism to choose, of all symbols, the Sermon on the Mount, with its exacting moral demands, all of them straining at the limits of human possibilities?

But they make of «God» still the farthest limit of our human possibilities, caught up with us just as surely within this body of death.

Not exact matches

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

He was reluctant to identify transcendence with God because he understood the absoluteness of God to function as a limit, a restraint upon the otherwise unlimited field of human possibilities.

God will not only absorb the effects of the human misuse of power, but will «look bad» in the eyes of those who think that God's possibilities should not be so limited (see 1 Cor 1:26 - 31)(See Fretheim, The Suffering of God, 76).

Are those with such a limited view of the possibilities of human society really likely to be motivated to sustain a constant vigilance against injustice?

The realist acknowledges that there is no inherent limit on the creative possibilities of human society.

Since I left print journalism to study theology two decades ago, I've thought a great deal about the limits and possibilities of words - especially when we try to navigate the spiritual territory of human life.

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

But in his eyes human speech does not exclude the possibility of extending its philosophical use beyond its initially limited range of employment and of becoming capable of describing actualities it was not originally cut out for «Every science must devise its own instruments.

They interpret the principle of indeterminism as indicating limits on the possibility of human knowledge of this world but not as indicating that the cosmology is incorrect.

Just as each individual must arrive at his nadir of exhausted possibilities, at which point of death he is united to God, so also that portion of the human race which has achieved its historical limit must now find death and life in an ecstatic moment of self - forgetfulness.

Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of life on other planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human species, and limits of science.

The possibility of transmission between humans is hugely limited by the fact that we are an outbred species and any cells that do get transmitted should be rejected immunologically, as foreign.

Her work is particularly concerned with the viewer - object relationship as a reflection of the human condition, positing apparently infinite yet ultimately limited possibilities of subjectivity.

Through human exchange, Ramírez Jonas aims to enunciate the possibilities of self - determined constructions of identity within the limits of datafication imposed by state, corporate, and social systems.

Creed has designed the base of his sculpture as a social space, a stepped platform on which visitors may gather to enjoy the view — and perhaps debate the limits and possibilities of human understanding.

Also, while I think that science and technological progress and capitalism have done a pretty good job of avoiding permanent resource scarcity so far (eg, the Simon / Ehrlich bet), I don't think we should assume that they can do so forever, or that economic growth will continue at the current several percent rate forever - they might, betting against human ingenuity is always dangerous, but a good, robust strategy would take into account the possibility that there might be limits to growth even if it is difficult to pinpoint any one given constraint.