Sentences with phrase «observation of human nature»

The constitution has been described as encouraging a shift from deductive to inductive methodology, in other words one based upon a developing understanding and observation of human nature.

Though still celebrated for his dark observations of human nature in the «90s, Austrian director Michael Haneke has made some strong movies in his...

Though still celebrated for his dark observations of human nature in the «90s, Austrian director Michael Haneke has made some strong movies in his later years that showed maturity.

Use the essay as a canvas on which you can paint your observations of human nature while objectively assessing the relationship you have with money and riches.

I think he was a great painter whose work weds powerful formal qualities with keen observations of human nature.

Not exact matches

Here then we have a whole range of imagery drawn from loving observation of nature and human life.

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

It appears that McGrath has got too sucked into the Popperian insight that human understandings of the world are «theory laden» (p. 61)-- wherein human culture rather than human nature is made not just intrinsic to explanations of observations, but determinative.

This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence of human experience as shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words and linguistic expressions» (cited in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form of argumentation.

Their theology was rooted in human experience and observation, attentive to the ways of nature and the solace of tradition.

Dave, I didn't say that you hate and my thoughts are not religious in nature, they are observations of human behavior.

Hence the careful and comprehensive observation of nature will yield indications for human behavior, which were part of God's intention in creating in the first place and which therefore have the status of moral imperatives for humans.

The novel is full, too, of wonderful throwaway observations about human nature («Lancelot shrugged his shoulders — one of the stupidest things to do when the other party wants to have a fight»).

What we assumed to be the laws of nature, which we humans cleverly discovered, turn out to be human judgements based on observation, experiment and measurement.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs of nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine revelation.

The international team that discovered the extinct gorilla - like species C. abyssinicus (reported in the journal Nature in 2007) reports new field observations and geological techniques that the authors say revise the age - constraint of the human split from their brethren.

It's a film about human nature, personally realized with subtle observations, and how much of this you can relate to will greatly depend on you.

The reward for your close observation is an unexpected conclusion sure to stimulate after - movie discussions about the loneliness, economic class distinctions and the nature of humans to embellish facts and even tell falsehoods to alleviate grief.

As a student of human nature and the world, Gervais is superb, and his skillful observations have produced some great stage and TV performances.

«Somewhat anemic characters, a silly subplot involving the autobiography of a yeti, and a lack of trenchant observations about human nature may disappoint those expecting the high quality of Smith's No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency series.»

The very act of observation is inherent to human nature and starting from that commonplace the artist starts processing and articulating his thoughts and ideas.

He further draws from frank observations of nature and humans, intermixing the two, suggesting an emotional range of psychological expressions, from steadfast and pensive to tired and mischievous in these works.

Humans are very much part of nature and the artist's observation and understanding of this theme hopes to understand not only nature, but of the human condition within nature.

90 Kevin McKinney, material like this is what informs my personal views above all other «information» at present (when added to my own logical rational senses and my own observations of the physical and human nature.)

In the canonical statement of the Anthropocene, the proposed new division in the geological timescale is defined by the observation that the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system» (W. Steffen et al..

Early in September 2009, at a gathering of experts on global climate change, one of the world's most respected and experienced climate modelers, Mojib Latif, made some observations on climate, media and human nature.

This highlights the centrality of mind mapping in emotionally committed relationships and provides a stunning observation about human nature.

Any serious student of human nature with numerous decades of observation of the ever wavering compass needle of some of our specie's moral and ethical rectitude, or sustained lack thereof, will realize that some of us are, for the most part, fair - weather honesty sailors.