Sentences with phrase «merely human forces»

35 This theme is a repetitive drumbeat in his City of God, where he asserted that, regardless of our finite sense of historical developments occurring under the sway of merely human forces:

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«Is the church a genuinely creative source of human welfare, or does it merely share in and decorate the goods created by economic and other secular forces?»

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

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.

The first essential is that the human units involved in the process shall draw closer together, not merely under the pressure of external forces, or solely by the performance of material acts, but directly, center to center, through internal attraction.

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

SOGI policies attempt to impose, by force of law, a system of orthodoxy with respect to human sexuality: the belief that marriage is merely a union of consenting adults, regardless of biology, and that one can be male, female, none, or both, again, regardless of biology.

In fact Compte (one of the founders of positivism) believed that the highest elevation of human civilazation is the point where people work together and merely through cmulative observed knowdeldge, free of any external forces, lay out the logical and proper way to live.

It won't do so though, if — as players — we're forced to spend hours desperately and frustratedly trying to figure out portions of the game while the curtain is gradually pulled back to reveal that the Great and Powerful Oz is merely human.

Educators have their own ways of teaching and technology is merely a force that amplifies the human element of education.

A horrible infection has fallen over a desolate town in this short horror story.The townsfolk are forced into action to protect themselves from further outbreaks caused by an addicting berry that grows amongst the base of large boulders.When Emmie returns home to find one of The Lost in her backyard, she suspects the strange berries have grown back, but confronting this horrible human creature unfolds a great realization — one that would challenge her beliefs of The Lost.This story is merely a glimpse of Kenneth W. Cain's work, so if you enjoy «Desolate,» be sure to pick up Kenneth's Embers: A Collection of Dark Fiction, available from Crystal Lake Publishing — Tales from the Darkest Depths...

What we will learn is that human emitted carbon is merely «a drop in the pond» and that other factors which the «enthusiasts» have conveniently dismissed and the IPCC and other models have ignored are the real drivers and forcing of climate over both the long and short terms.

What we are seeing now is probably the first large animal that has ever gone extinct merely as an indirect consequence of human activity: a victim of market forces and our collective lifestyle.

So I merely quibble with R. Gates use of the phrase «dominant long - term forcing» when discussing the human forcing.