Chief among these are the capacity for self «organization, the teleological «directionality» that nature exhibits, and the emergence
within nature of human beings who «transcend the natural level.»
Derived as it is from the
cooperative nature of human beings then, a human society comes into existence, is maintained, and continues to develop, insofar as individuals are able to interrelate with one another in ways which are reciprocally sustaining.
Ideally it should go beyond the classical capitalist - socialist models, to develop a society appropriate for the
multifaceted nature of human beings and their social and transcendent dimensions.
There is an assumption in the American Constitution that rises out of a biblical insight into the nature of human life: given the self - centered,
sinful nature of all human beings that causes us to operate from the vantage point of self - interest, no one person or one branch of government should ever be allowed to achieve total power.
What Marx in Capital is describing is how this
fundamental nature of human being — to be the initiator and controller of historical process — has been transferred or alienated and how it belongs to the inhuman power of capital.
The epistemology of control has its roots not only in our Western philosophical tradition, but also in the
very nature of human beings.
As the pair makes their way through the jungle, stalked by a jaguar and seeking the treasure of a lifetime, they peel away the layers of civility to reveal the raw and
vulnerable nature of human beings, and how we fall in love.
I am equally interested in the historical references of art, as well as the registered documentation, where we assist to that continuous return to the
basic nature of the human being.»
Its founder, Rudolf Steiner, looked into the future and saw that, in order to combat an age of growing materialism and self centeredness, a new approach to education was needed — one that took into consideration the
spiritual nature of the human being and the cosmos — one that considered the interdependence of the natural world and the spirit.
TJ's Gym mixes the science of strength and conditioning and the
social nature of human beings to create a community of of athletes who strive for a better life.
It assumes all the while that the
true nature of human beings and of society, on whatever culturally adjacent conservative version now current, will re-emerge after a massive, one - off, government intervention.»
Overall, the truce was a heartening case study in
the nature of human beings and their capacity to wage war on one another.
The nature of the human being is that when you turn the page, you automatically glance at the right - facing page first.
Until that is expelled from our culture there will be a root, a tap root, for all racism, all discrimination, all cruelty, because of
the nature of the human being in our culture.
It is
the nature of human beings to reject what is true but unpleasant and embrace what is obviously false but comforting.
We, and our students, have written not only about God but also about the problem of evil, Christ, the church, Christian education, pastoral counseling, preaching,
the nature of human beings, history, liberation and salvation, spirituality, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, science and religion, and other standard theological topics.
We found some interesting comments on
the nature of human beings and history in Whitehead, and there were obvious anthropological implications of his theology and his cosmology.
These practices were accompanied by theories about
the nature of the human beings and the universe quite different from either biblical or secular ones in the West.
For some, it is ordained by God; for others, it arises from
the nature of human beings, even if we are evolutionary accidents; or it may simply express the requirements for anything recognizable as a society.
everything is wrong... thats
the nature of human beings... WE ARE ANIMALS....
Although he initially rejects physicalism because he thinks that a human person is not just an organism and mental changes are not simply physical changes, he concludes «physicalism is the most reasonable theory about
the nature of human beings».
And there needs to be a clearer integration of the Catholic understanding about
the nature of the human being, about our sexual nature, about what a human being is for.
Indeed all these ideas do become without meaning if the human person, the «I,» who is first of all concerned, is looked at from without, if the «I» is described as one can describe in general propositions
the nature of a human being; if, as usually results, the individual man is regarded as a specimen of the genus homo.
The fundamental inadequacy from which the other weaknesses are derived is his impoverished view of
the nature of human beings.
It is natural for us as human beings to breathe, sleep, eat, walk, talk — it is part of
the nature of the human being to do that kind of thing.