Sentences with phrase «of human desires»

Benedict Evans, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, told me that bots face a big challenge as they grow: the number and volume of human desires might always outpace our ability to write software that can address them.

Technological innovations that make the exploitation of nature unnecessary for the satisfaction of human desires may be the best way to prevent the exploitation of nature.

How can a truly progressive and forward thinking game developer be discovered in this increasing sea of capitalist opportunists who pander to the lowest common denominator of human desires?

But if Frances Ha is a love letter from Baumbach, a filmmaker who has always been most fascinating when plumbing the darkest recesses of human desires and failures, imagine what his break - up letter would look like.

Sadly, I have not (yet) read the work, but imagine that it contains the same vibrant characters as her other books, with an equally powerful understanding of human desires (but without the violence).

October 1st remains a special date for all Nigerians as this marks the day when we attained one of the most precious of human desires — freedom.

So pervasive is this individualistic thrust in our culture that the burden of proof rests on those who would set limits on the fulfillment of human desires.

Nor did they succeed in banishing all assumptions about the proper ordering of human desires.

«3 Ludwig Feuerbach described the essence of religion as a reflection of human desires into a transcendent realm, and proposed therefore to change men «from friends of God to friends of men, from believers to thinkers, from worshipers to workers, from candidates for the «Yonder» «to students of the «Here,» from Christians, who, according to their own confession, arc partly animals and partly angels, to men, whole men.»

Long ago Plato suggested that we consider it as divided into three parts — the appetitive, spirited, and rational — that correspond to the three basic kinds of human desires: the desire to satisfy physical appetites, the desire for recognition, and the desire for truth.

If consumption is by definition the satisfaction of human desires, then satisfying more desires surely contributes to human well being.

The Galatians are also encouraged to identify with Titus, who, with Paul's help, responded to the circumcision - free gospel of Christ instead of the human desires of the false brothers.

Wouldn't it be more glorious, if when you left this world, your reward in heaven was an elevation of your existance to something like pure energy... free of human desires like for gold freakin streets or virgins?

The crisis of the 1990s is one that touches upon the core of human desires, expectations and dreams.

That sense of humor, that sort of sensibility — the seductress who grasps the absurd subtexts of human desire, lust, neediness — might just be the most important hallmark of the Stormy Daniels persona and brand.

«Fear and greed, most notable among counterproductive emotions where money is the object of human desire, can and often do compromise the capacity for rational and orderly thought» Frank Martin

«No vocation is the fulfilment of all human desire.

Smith posits an inspired rebirth of faith, Morressy the providential arrangements of human desire and action, and Lafferty the power of sacrificial miracle.

What did the new life mean for the first Christians in the realms of human desire, passion, creativity, knowledge, and love?

If God is conceived as cosmic dictator, this notion is a reflection of the human desire to control and manage.

Eberstadt presents a problem of human desire in both its male and female modes — perhaps even in a desire for the infinite.

Dr. May gives this as the definition of addiction: «Addiction is any compulsive, habitual behavior that limits freedom of human desire.

We must say, then, that there is nothing in the idea of agape which excludes the element of human desire for the good.

But wise is the author who can master the rage of jealousy, And the mastery thereof is peace; So I calm the spirit within me and ask, What desert of human desire is watered by Gibran's oases, The Prophet above all, but also The Garden of the Prophet And Jesus the Son of Man and Spirits Rebellious And poems and sketches numerous and miscellaneous?

Viladesau adapts to aesthetics an argument from Kant and concludes that «God is... self - subsistent joy in God's own being and in all that participates in it, and the supreme goal and mover of human desire.»

This is still the case whether the shaping of human desire involves programs like the Affordable Care Act that seeks to orient humans toward care for the other or advocacy of programs that support a pro-life agenda.

What is important here for my purposes is the great agreement between the two that Christian tradition has something to say about the shaping of human desire and thus about public life.

Prayer is the intentional opening of human lives to, the alignment of human wills with, and the direction of human desiring toward, the cosmic Love that is deepest and highest in the world because it is the main thrust or drive through the world toward sharing and participation in genuine good — and hence toward the truest possible fulfillment of human personality as God wishes it to become.

It was a comprehensive effort to shape the interests of human desire through an alignment of the interests of church and state around common aims and cultural capital.

The derangement of human desire in the Garden opened human desire to an infinite range of possibility by making that desire inchoate.

The nature of human desire, then, is that no particular desire is natural.

What was needed in the debates over music during the 1950s and 1960s was a broader theological vision that could help the Cooke's and Lewis's of the world understand the continuity between the sacred and the profane in terms of the shaping and orientation of human desire.

They lack the fundamental quality of markets: namely, of being a natural by - product of human desire on one hand and labour on the other.

The findings could help explain the evolution of our human desire to seek out «local knowledge» when visiting a new place or culture.

With a bachelor's degree in psychology, she decided to earn a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling to increase her understanding of human desire and companionship.

People want the rich opportunities to explore the full range of human desire those sites actually provide.

A man plagued by the darker side of human desire, and rage.

Still, it all comes together when you put the film in the context of the overall theme of the Paradise series, which is a dark portrayal of the human desire to achieve paradise on earth.

But as Nivola's key scene illustrates, it is also a potent, feminist exploration of human desire and the true meaning of freedom.

But no one will confuse this tense drama with Weird Science — Ex Machina, which marks the directorial debut of 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, is an unnerving meditation on the ethics of artificial intelligence, the ever - growing power of Silicon Valley (Isaac plays the reclusive founder of a search - engine company), the nature of human desire and more.

Ullmann's version of «Miss Julie» exists in a special cinematic category; it's toxic, it's hypnotic, and passionately translates Strindberg's genius instinct for enlightening the multi-layered psychological spectrums of human desire for lust and power.

The sour mockery of human desire that occurs in both Phantom Thread and Downsizing is the result of that revolution.

If there is one unifying theme of the book, it is just that - the complexity of human desire.

Claire Bessant, Chief Executive of International Cat Care said, «It is very depressing to see the life which has been deliberately dealt to some breeds of cats because of a human desire to develop a certain look.

Westcombe believes that this capacity to construct the grotesque and the phantasmagorical in moments of sensory deprivation is a complex part of human desire.

Westcombe's recent work deals with the fantasy world of the imagination and mines the expressive power of human desire as a means to alleviate boredom and confinement (one of Westcombe's projects was started as a way to relieve the tedium of 12 - hour shifts working as a car park attendant).

Ornamentation, the action of decorating, acts as a starting point for a wide - ranging exploration of the uses, abuses and relevance of the human desire to ornament.

And through them, Green explores the complexity of human desire, and the unseen forces that form such desire.

SMS chronicles the impotence of human desire and the inability to be together; documented SMS messages reference the changes in travel regulations between the US and Cuba in 2012 and 2013.

Her work is an experiment in transcending graphic representation to reveal trite but true archetypes of human desire and fantasy that in the end aren't just about her liking pizza or the people on them but rather humanity's obsession with food and man's desire to fly.