Sentences with phrase «nature of human affairs»

Neither the «violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind» nor «the mean rapacity... of merchants and manufacturers» can be «corrected» (though the latter «may very easily be prevented from disturbing» the tranquillity of others) because they are evils for which «the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy».

In this passage, especially in the phrase «the nature of human affairs», Smith comes close to the traditional doctrine of original sin.

Not exact matches

So does the Accord, which I believe has been a substantial contributor to the low rate of inflation we now see in Australia: the Accord processes are not perfect but that is the nature of compromise and human affairs generally.

With a certain simplification of the state of affairs, which however brings out more clearly the decisive factor without falsifying it, we might say that formerly the object and situation of a man's action were simply data supplied by nature with which he was in contact and by simple human realities which recurred from generation to generation again and again.

a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

Leon R. Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor in the College and the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago, and author of Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs and The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature.

In one of his last writings, Niebuhr describes «the guiding principle» of his mature life in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25).

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Both their discernment of human affairs and their insight into the moral nature of God make their messages of incalculable and permanent worth.

But what has not yet been sufficiently taken into account, although it explains everything, is the extent to which this process of mechanization is a collective affair, and the way in which it finally creates, on the periphery of the human race, an organism that is collective in its nature and amplitude.

Niebuhr goes on to add that the fact that the will to power inevitably justifies itself in terms of the morally more acceptable will to realize our true nature means that the egoistic corruption of universal ideals is a much more persistent fact in human affairs than any moralistic creed is inclined to admit.

In this phase Whitehead proceeds from the fact that, opposed to the «concrete universe,» or to the world which embraces — howsoever — both nature and the «whole round world of human affairs,» there stands a multiplicity of theories of the world, which reciprocally influence each other and the world or are coined in these relations.

Religion — «a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.»

This state of affairs not only fails to engage with the core issue at the heart of the culture of death, it also tacitly encourages agnosticism about life after death, human freedom, the ultimate nature of evil and the human need for prayer and religious practice.

There has been, nonetheless, little revisionist literature on the Realist conceptualization of human nature and its reflection on inter-state and transnational affairs.

Embracing a new critical understanding of human affairs that includes nature as a key actor will be essential to solving both our social and political problems, as well as our environmental crisis.

But, within the media coverage of greenhouse gases and climate that has accumulated over the last half century, there's also a broad body of work that has clearly described the science and its significance for human affairs and the wider nature world.

That the separation of the environment or «nature» from human affairs is artificial is not new and, hence, one wonders why Kareiva's emphasis on the point and Andy's cheerleading of it.

«All political lives,» said the British politician Enoch Powell many years ago, «unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.»