Sentences with phrase «of his human nature as»

He defends, against the Neoplatonists, the Christian understanding of human nature as intrinsically open to sociability such that the life of virtue should be a social life.

However, when it comes to Man, the principle of intelligibility that integrates, actualises, orientates and is the driving force of human nature as a going concern in the universe has to be of a different order from matter.

Rabbi Kaplan would write in 1970: «Emancipation from the authority of that text makes possible the substitution of a more constructive view of human nature as capable of improvement.»

It has provided grounds for the recognition of racial equality — a recognition of the dignity of human nature as such — but it has done much more, and indeed, much less.

As I indicated in my essay, Darwinism denies the fundamental assumption of Marxism» the radical malleability of human nature as a contingent product of social and economic conditions.

Ever since the quarrel over artificial birth control in the 1960s, wayward Catholic theologians have led the way in dismissing Catholic sexual morality as mere «physicalism», this [dismissal] being an attitude which ignores the dual character of human nature as a union of body and soul.

Tanner begins with an extended discussion, stretching over three chapters, of human nature as oriented from the beginning by grace to the image of God, the second person of the Trinity.

The only relevant question for the theologian is the basic assumption on which the adoption of a biological as of every other Weltanschauung rests, and that assumption is the view of the world which has been molded by modern science and the modern conception of human nature as a self - subsistent unity immune from the interference of supernatural powers.

John Paul IPs own writings did much to develop a new «personalist» vision of Catholic moral, spiritual and social teaching, although not perhaps a clear anthropology or philosophy of human nature as body and soul.

For the modern problem really lies in the fact that so many Enlightenment thinkers relied on a concept of «natural» that was anything but a reflection of human nature as it actually exists.

Only if our Scripture, doctrine, and worship are both the work and the enlightenment of human nature as a whole will women have a share in that heritage as well.

By his definition of human nature as a naturalistic generic entity, Feuerbach «pushed Hegel aside» without «overcoming him critically».

They knew Him as alive from the dead, in the full integrity of His human nature as also in the full reality of His divine nature.

The sustainability of any political order depends on governance mechanisms that successfully balance the ever - present tension between these nine human dignity needs and the three attributes of human nature as I define them: emotionality, amorality and egoism.

It also contains, however, an intellectual history of moral philosophy, a theory of virtue, and an account of human nature as being part of a larger framework created by a benevolent deity.

The understanding of human nature as a predisposed tabula rasa informs us that survival is the most fundamental human instinct coded in our genetics and that, when imperiled, it is likely to trump everything else.

Thus the view of human nature as irredeemably cruel, warlike, and selfish — or as inherently peace loving — is a mistake, argues de Waal.

Wong Kar - Wai's films have consistently explored the quirks and fragility of human nature as few filmmakers have ever been able to.

We identify these aspects of human nature as three fundamental personal needs: safety, connection, and power.

With exquisite prose, Sepetys plumbs the depths of her quartet of characters, bringing each to the breaking point and back, shaping a narrative that is as much about the intricacies of human nature as it is about a historical catastrophe.

In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce - Benjamin's brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that binds them forever.

In the Bakery, the final video image suggesting an outcome strongly indicates the existence of a human nature as the ambition to control, instrumentalise, manipulate and commodify any surrounding.

Judging from the debate as it is floating these days, it sure seems to me as if a gentlemen's agreement has been reached: one that places international, globalized capitalism and concumerism on the shelf, as among the main characteristics of human nature as human nature is played out in our times.

At least, that has been the result of my assessment of human nature as it applies to individual behaviour vs. group behaviour whilst watching the practices of profit - driven enterprises during my lifetime.

Not exact matches

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

«Part of it is the nature of working with creative people that are looking for an outlet to express it not just in their work, but as a way of showing affection for their co-workers and having fun,» explains Bluebeam's Chief Human Capital Officer, Tracy Heverly, about the tradition.

Considering the sprawling, federated nature of U.S. medicine, experts warn that a combination of government policies and health IT upgrades — as well as prophylactic human measures like changing passwords — will be necessary to keep patients» data safe and health systems functioning.

It also didn't help that I brought in a new team to heavily focus on human elements such as the health and well - being of communities that depend upon nature.

As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

Cloud promoters are underestimating financial and logistical barriers, he says, as well as the intransigence of human nature.

Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.»

What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

The biopharma world went into a bit of a frenzy on Tuesday as Nature reported that a team of Chinese scientists had become the first in the world to launch human trials of the groundbreaking CRISPR gene - editing technology.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

In «The Better Angels of Our Nature,» Pinker categorized «five inner demons» as psychological systems that can be triggered to release aggression, along with «four better angels» as motives that can bring humans toward cooperation and altruism.

Commenting on the 2015 Human Spaces report when it was released, organisational psychology professor Sir Cary Cooper said: «The benefit of design inspired by nature, known as biophilic design, is accumulating evidence at a rapid pace.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

By showcasing the most witty, joyful, bullet - pointed versions of people's lives, and inviting constant comparisons in which we tend to see ourselves as the losers, Facebook appears to exploit an Achilles» heel of human nature.

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

The ignorance bred by religion regarding what human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists regarding human beings as blank slates, since both religion and communists envisioned human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components of the brain and the innate nature we are born with due to our genetic make up.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

I think it \'s just human nature and it should be OK with everybody else as well that we feel that way.There is no explaining away feelings, emotions or faith they are to each of us whatever they ARE.

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It is far more challenging when trying to replicate processes of nature, because nature is wildy more complex than any human engineering, but as we get smarter and learn more we come closer adn closer to being able to simulate natural conditions and create the expected results.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

The notion of the human individual as a rational, self - legislating being has been challenged as an affront to the human connection both with history and with nature.

Their accounts of human nature see persons as aggressive, competitive, and self - interested.

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

Luke tells us that as a boy he «grew in his wisdom» (Lk 2:52), but the Church has taught that this means «his human nature was instructed by his own divinity» (Jerome) or that while remaining divine «he made his own the progress of humans in wisdom and grace» (John of Damascus).