Sentences with phrase «modern humans are simply»

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The inadequacy of the modern, secularist alternative to medieval disputationism (whether of the rejectionist or accommodationist type) is that it assumes that humans can transcend their traditions and simply reconstitute themselves in an ahistorical realm, one whose simplicity and transparent rationality will overcome the complexities of the past.

One understanding of human nature common to the modern era sees man as standing both above and outside nature (after Descartes, as a sort disembodied rational being), and nature itself as raw material — sometimes more pliable, sometimes less — for furthering human ambition (an instrumentalist post — Francis Bacon view of nature as a reality not simply to be understood but to be «conquered» and used to satisfy human desires).

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

When modern theorists envisage man as a being who knows what he wants, or who at least possesses an «unconscious» that knows for him, they may simply have failed to perceive the domain in which human uncertainty is most extreme.

Never, as modern human beings, can we experience the one - possibility consciousness of a primitive or archaic culture in which myth quite simply is the received construction of the world.

A modern behaviorist, holding that a human being is simply a physical organism with its various functions, draws the inevitable inference that no continued life after death is possible.

Whereas America was founded on an ideology — a set of Enlightenment propositions about human nature and public order — California was founded simply on the allure of its physical geography, its natural abundance, its reputation as a modern - day Arcady.

Now I am well aware that one of our modern humanists might interrupt at this stage and say, «Now your religion, your belief in God and immortality are put up by your mind, simply because it will not face the true facts — the utter loneliness and futility of human living.»

The missional approach is different than modern evangelicalism, particularly in this region, because «the work of salvation, in its full sense, is 1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; 2) about the present, not simply the future; and 3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.»

«That modern secular individuals are prone to cling on to beliefs about science, in the same way that their ancestors turned to the gods,» they write in their paper, «carries no judgment on the value of science as a method but simply highlights the human motivation to believe.»

As for what happened to the Neanderthals, some researchers believe that they were simply absorbed into the modern human population.

The human body was simply not made to digest the amount of carbs the modern diet consists of, most of them coming from over-processed foods.

During the last half - century, our human DNA has not experienced major changes commensurate with this radical transformation of wheat, and many people's bodies simply may not be capable of processing modern wheat effectively.

But where Sightseers was merely incompetent, We're The Millers seems to take delight in human misery as an end or source of humour in itself; it doesn't use pain or suffering to deepen the characters, it simply offers it as a benchmark of modern comedy.

But there is much more on the films plate than simply laughing - to - prevent - from - crying at the current state of America, the film delves into life philosophy, behavior etiquette in the modern world and simple human dignity in ways that only a good comedy can.

It is human nature in our modern day capitalistic society to assume that making a lot of money from relatively little work is simply not possible, which is generally true out side of the world of financial speculation.