Not exact matches
So to truly apply the mindset of Madison today means to admit what he couldn't quite see: that just as air is to the regrettable existence of fire, and as liberty is to the regrettable existence of faction, so is modern republican government to the regrettable existence of various at - bottom - suicidal democratic mindsets: progressivism, democratic socialism, militant secularism, and libertarianis
So to truly apply the mindset of Madison today means to admit what he couldn't quite see: that just as air is to the regrettable
existence of fire, and as liberty is to the regrettable
existence of faction,
so is modern republican government to the regrettable existence of various at - bottom - suicidal democratic mindsets: progressivism, democratic socialism, militant secularism, and libertarianis
so is
modern republican government to the regrettable
existence of various at - bottom - suicidal democratic mindsets: progressivism, democratic socialism, militant secularism, and libertarianism.
Many
modern people are detaching themselves, consciously or unconsciously, from their primal roots, from the origins of their
existence: the earth and its natural resources, self - renewing sources of food, raw materials, energy, and
so on.
While a definition of faith as subjectivity — i.e., authentic human
existence culminates in faith — could be real in Kierkegaard's time, it can no longer be
so at a time when the death of God has become
so fully incarnate in the
modern consciousness.
When
so many syntheses of thought have been shown to be too small a garment to fit a growing world of knowledge, when
so many preconceptions have had to be revised in every field of knowledge, the
modern man is in no sympathetic mood to listen to proofs for the
existence of a personal God unless the very knowledge he has
so recently acquired can be geared to the demonstration of such an Absolute.
We concede that not all who doubt the
existence of a personal God do
so because they accept the theory of evolution, whether the word be restricted to biology or enlarged to its cosmic significance, but we do say, and from experience know, that most
modern agnosticism is bound up with those non-theistic philosophies of evolution that stream off from Hegel as their
modern fountain - head.
There is as yet no power able to deal with the major structural changes that are required for justice in the world,
so that all persons may have what they need for decent human
existence,
existence that the
modern world has ample means to provide.
So we have to take from the traditions as well as from
modern developments certain values which do justice to the wholeness of human
existence and find a new way of going forward fighting against both the traditional and
modern injustices.
Yet from all sides today
modern knowledge of the human creature and his world is forcing us to face up to the finiteness of human
existence, to which, in
so many ways, Israel pioneered the road.
It seems logical, this being
so, to postulate the osteological
existence, at the beginning of anthropogenesis, of a prehominid fossil stage represented by crania decidedly less curved upon themselves (less «globular») than is the case with
modern man: a presumption which is borne out by the very significant fact that at this pre-hominid stage Mankind seems to have been made up of a more or less divergent sheaf of ethnic shoots («sub-phyla»?)
To teach, as some writers have, that we must accept the «insight» of
modern Evolutionists, as true beyond reasonable doubt, that humans came into
existence in various places at differing times (
so - called «Polyphyletism») is to compromise the Church's infallible teaching that there was one first man (Adam) and one first woman (Eve) from whom we all descend.
In today's intellectual climate, where
so many who invoke science in support of Christianity seem to do
so in more or less veiled forms of creationism (for example, in the «Intelligent Design» school of thought), and where the prevailing mindset is a complacent presumption that science has disproved religion, it is a matter of pressing urgency to proclaim from the housetops how the magnificent success of
modern science points unambiguously to the
existence of the supreme Mind of the Creator, and how the trajectory of thought which begins there leads convincingly to Jesus Christ as Lord of the Cosmos.
The denial of eternal life which is
so common among
modern Christians is not, as its adherents often claim, a nonegoistic, mature, realistic willingness to face the brutal limitations of finitude; rather, it amounts to a tragically unbelieving denial of God's honor — and thus of God's very
existence.
Modern philosophy also had developed more technical arguments for the
existence of God that could not be
so lightly brushed aside.
The Kanapoi elbow, dated at 4.5 million, is «fully human»,
so all these australopithecines and whatnot can not be ancestral to us because a
modern human was already in
existence; his thorough - or, let us say, thoroughly selective - combing of the literature has overlooked a paper by Marc R. Feldesman (1982, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 59:73 - 95) which finds that Kanapoi is very far from being
modern human.
But
modern life in connection with my permanent need for social media dull my (quite rare but
so precious) couch potato
existence.
The letters themselves are potentially priceless as they appear to contain contemporary references to Shakespeare (about whom
so little is known that some
modern - day scholars question whether he existed at all or was simply an elaborate pseudonym); but the ultimate prize is the play itself which, if found and proved genuine, would be worth a very large fortune; because there are virtually no examples of Shakespeare's writing in
existence - only a half dozen questionable signatures on various legal documents, not even a sonnet in his own writing, let alone a complete play.
The original Cavalier King Charles Spaniels were around and had been bred from other toy dogs and spaniels during the 16th century or
so, but
modern day breeders have been using other methods of breeding to bring a more pure version of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel back into
existence.
Modern neuropsychology emphasizes the power of the subconscious and questions the
existence of free will,
so maybe it is beyond my knowing.
So, a medical practitioner hired by a quango and an ornithological charity to justify their
existences and relevance to «
Modern Life» counts as «scientific support».
Modern times have challenged human
existence with quite many challenges when it comes to health, hazards, accidents and
so on.
In Google's documentation about Fuchsia, it noted the OS is meant for «
modern phones and
modern personal computers with fast processors,»
so the
existence of a phone makes some sense.