Sentences with phrase «man qua»

Here, in Vienna, man qua man is able to stand by his own power, and without shame, on hind legs.

Redemption applies to a man qua man, not qua priest, and it implies that God, who wills all men to be saved, offers the grace of repentance to all men, no matter how grievous their sins.

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Thus man - the - knower apprehends man - qua - lower - than - himself and in doing so achieves knowledge of man - qua - lower - than - man, since all scientific theory is of things lower than man - the - knower.

The fact that our life is so gravely threatened in the brightest day of technical achievement is not a criticism of the engineers qua engineers, but it is a criticism of all of us as men.

But one thing is certain, and it appears to me that its recognition in theory, and acceptance in practice, must be the sine qua non of any valid discussion and effective action affecting the political, economic and moral ordering of the present world: this is that nothing, absolutely nothing — we may as well make up our minds to it — can arrest the progress of social Man towards ever greater interdependence and cohesion.

Together they constitute the sine qua non of any political and economic system worthy of man.

Doubtless most men live with far too little consciousness of themselves to have a conception of what consistency is; that is to say, they do not exist qua spirit.