Sentences with phrase «mean human senses»

I think you are using observation to mean human senses and I use observation to mean any of our five senses or measuring tools created as an extension of those senses.

Not exact matches

And I believe understanding this element of human nature — which I'll discuss in the next section — is key to building a life that: a) involves ambitious striving toward goals and having impact in the world, which contributes to a sense of meaning, and b) gives you a shot at realizing true happiness by avoiding a soul - sucking competitive rat race.

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

By this he meant that the human brain, along with its senses, and with is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds of the REAL world (the territory).

In some cases this appeal to inner intuition might take the form of the claim that each of us has a «non-sensuous experience of the self» which is «both prior to our interpretation of our sense - knowledge and more important as source for the more fundamental questions of the meaning of our human experience as human selves» (BRO 75).

In any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happiness.

The discipline and penances of the body and soul are born out of an awareness of the evil which exists in the person's attachment to the fallen world through the senses, the intellect, and the spirit.They are meant to assist in the purification of these fallen attachments within the human person.

That concept is not easy to teach or warm one's hands over without considerable effort, but it is not impossible to convey even to young children the sense that the real meaning of Christmas lies precisely in the combination of magical ceremonies and the grown - up message that in the very midst of our human selfishness, the waylaying love of God has broken through to us unconditionally.

Of course, this does not mean that quanta have sense experience or consciousness, but even in human beings, these are not fundamental.

It means making sense out of the relations that human beings and other living things have toward the overall patterns of nature in ways that give us some sense of their proper relations to one another, to ourselves, and to the whole» (Toulmin, 272).

Balthasar doesn't necessarily mean form in a strictly scholastic sense here; rather he means that reality which we, with our human minds, are able to grasp.

Just as the primary meaning of human action does not refer to a public, historical act, the primary meaning of God's action does not refer to any act in history.23 However, since the relation of the world to God is analogous to that of the body to the self, then in the secondary sense of God's action, every event is to an extent an act of God.

The Latin word religio meant devotion or commitment, «a conscientious concern for what really matters»; the English word «religion», while often implying a sense of the sacred, originally referred to the human attitude of devotion.

He quotes physicist Brian Swimme: «The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human,» and points out that this sense of an emergent universe identical with ourselves gives new meaning to the Chinese sense of forming one body with all things.

Recent papers on process thought and feminism have used the term «androgynous to depict the range of maleness / femaleness expressed in both humans and God.1 In a similar sense, «gynandrous» has been proposed.2 To be sure, the aim is to capture, by means of an appropriate term, the rich texture of human differences, that one is neither strictly «female» or «male» but a creative combination of the qualities historically assigned to both.

Grace alone seems to have the power to free us from nature's deterministic instincts; but that doesn't mean that the wisdom and freedom to become fully human in the sense of being able to discern and choose more god - like behavior is easily achieved or sustained.

Dr. Hendley contrasts Richard Rorty and John Dewey in their views of the meaning of human life — in their attempts to makes sense of the multidimensional aspects of human experience.

So, it was not just the small group of Jesus» followers who were confused about the future; many in Roman society were searching for a system of meaning that would make sense out of their experience of human life.

The pledge is banal nationalism which is meant to build an imagined sense of national solidarity and belonging amongst humans.

They were perfect examples of what it meant not to be aware of the realities of life, ignorant in the sense of being insensitive or of taking a partial experience and believing itto be the total experience of all human beings.

In this chapter I have attempted to present an understanding of our human existence which is true to the facts, so far as we know them, which makes sense of and gives sense to our experience, and which indicates what is meant when we speak, as we do, of the worth and value in our lives.

«43 The time, care, and enormous intelligence expended on the process of producing the Constitution expressed not only the traditional culture of a covenant - and compact - making people, perhaps unique in that respect in human history, but also a sense of the meaning of their act on the world stage.

g) In this sense, it is right to speak of a struggle against an economic system, if the latter is understood as a method of upholding the absolute predominance of capital, the possession of the means of production and of the land, in contrast to the free and personal nature of human work.

Our response to God's acceptance of our lives into his / her life provides a powerful sense of the meaning of life and a profound sense of the intimacy of the human and the divine.

Recent papers on process thought and feminism have used the term «androgynous to depict the range of maleness / femaleness expressed in both humans and God.1 In a similar sense, «gynandrous» has been proposed.2 To be sure, the aim is to capture, by means of an appropriate term, the rich texture of human differences, that one is...

Existence alongside others who share our sense of life's meaning is not accidental but essential to our being human.

Christian's third conclusion means that Whitehead's philosophical theology is in a sense a confessional theology, i.e., a rational «explanation of an interpretation» of human experience.

It is the sheer excess — the disproportion of our human bondages and the absurdity resulting from this excess, the grotesque pointlessness of so much of it — that undermines my sense of ultimate meaning as transcendent willing purpose.

the truth of biblical religion is pure and not the problem»... I envy yr faith... human artifacts, especially religious narratives are rarely as pure as you might suggest... at best, I think the scriptures shld be a means and not an end, so in that sense need not be pure... they are merely signposts along the way... ultimately, we are the judges of what is pure or impure, higher or lower, right or wrong

But for its members it will fulfill the demands of being human: giving a sense of ultimate meaning, offering release from personal failure, creating a noble identity of integrity, fostering the richness of a caring community, and upholding a standard of perfection which will both judge and inspire.

If we still continue to speak of a historical revelation we do not mean that it is special in the sense that the people to whom it is communicated are thereby superior to other human beings.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

What does «revelation» mean in relation to our pervasive human sense of mystery?

John Hall Wheelock, a minor twentieth - century poet — dubbed «the last romantic» in the title of his oral autobiography — captured movingly some of the reasons we desire more life, our sense (nevertheless) that a complete human life can not mean an indefinitely extended one, and the....

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

In short, theology embraces wisdom from any historical or contemporary source that assists in making sense out of the meaning of human life.

By that I mean that the common habit of treating robots as people — however much it seems like a joke or a shorthand or a metaphor — could erode our already diminished sense of the human person as uniquely special.

If, as we have shown, the social phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life in our hearts, and in such a way as to counteract those elements in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.

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.

Occasionally, Hartshorne even speaks of a «besouled body,» but by such language he means only the probability of certain modes of action and experience that embody a given personality's characteristic traits.11 Consequently, he suggests that, when a person's body goes into a deep, dreamless sleep, the soul loses its actuality, only to regain it when the person awakens.12 Understandably, therefore, he disregards as inapplicable to his own view Gilbert Ryle's well - known caricature of Cartesian anthropological dualism as «the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine» — especially since Hartshorne denies that the human body is a «machine» in any materialistic, mechanical sense.13

Expressive form means a lively sense of the basis of art itself, namely, that human beings create, make, devise, and celebrate through common and earthly forms the expressive power of religious sensibility.

In a broad sense, at least, the major religions and philosophies anticipated special revelatory experiences or moments of enlightenment that would transform human existence and bestow on it a final meaning.

I meant «imaginary» in the sense of something created by humans who then think it's real, not in the sense of not existing.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

For in one sense God is «intervening» constantly — if by that we mean that God is perpetually sustaining us, loving us into existence, pouring God» s self into every secret crack and joint of the created process, and inviting the human will, in the lure of the Spirit, into an ever - deepening engagement with the implications of the Incarnation, its «groanings» (Romans 8), for the sake of redemption.

Indeed, to be an object has normally meant to be an object of human sense experience, especially visual and tactile experience.

``... Unconsciously, we narrow our focus... What gets lost from sight are other things that motivate human beings: their search for meaning, for a sense that their world is not out of control, for a conviction of their own worth, and beyond this, for a sense of their own moral goodness.

He has, to be sure, answered this question, not only in his Scripture but in the very constitution of our natures: to choose life, to be fruitful and multiply, and to walk in his ways, which means among other things to understand that life makes sense and that human fulfillment resides in resisting the ever - present temptation to return to tohu vavohu — the primordial chaos and void.

The meaning may be obscure, but some sense of the significance of things is an integral element in human life.

But by repenting, though not of sin, for he is righteous, but by repenting for his supposition that existence does not make sense, Job presupposes an unsuspected meaning which can not be transcribed by speech or logos a human being may have at his disposal.