Sentences with phrase «of human impulse»

A longtime environmentalist, his work acknowledges the repercussions of the human impulse to dominate nature.

Rivers's tormented, fragmented American history shows the scars of human impulse and incompletion.

It's a miracle, a golem, capable of illuminating the rawest humanity in one stroke and of exhuming the most abject failure of human impulse in the very next.

In Three Billboards, plot twists are equated with the mysteries of human impulse, accounting for the fact that a person's life can change in an instant and it doesn't have to feel like a clever - clever writer casually nudging chess pieces around a board.

«Religion is that activity of the human impulse towards self - preservation by means of which Man seeks to carry his essential vital purposes through against the adverse pressure of the world by raising himself freely towards the world's ordering and governing powers when the limits of his own strength are reached.»

And they have rejected the moralistic self - righteousness, the sacrifice of all human impulses to the single goal of success, the materialism and vulgarity of so much of American life.

On the other hand, the total pessimism of much traditional Reformed theology, whether Calvinist or Lutheran, and its more recent revival, as well as the perverse denigration of humanity not stated but implied in Catholic penitential theology with its fear of human impulses and its dread of sexuality, is not Christian either.

Sociologists love group selection, I think because they are more influenced by emotive evaluations of human impulses.

Instead, in accordance with the default settings of so much of contemporary culture, this most fundamental of human impulses is superficially condemned into caricature — predatory, clownish and nothing else.

Not exact matches

Human psychology is complex, and we are driven by competing, even contradictory, impulses of fear, desire, ambition, envy, and the need to connect.

A fair number of crowdfunding contributions are «impulse buys,» so a genuine human story that the audience can relate to, will grab their attention and convince them to contribute.

Kierkegaard shares with Kant the assumption that being moral inevitably involves a struggle to thwart the impulses of human nature, which by definition must tug the agent in the direction of aesthetic indulgence — and where does ethics derive the authority to make me go against my feelings?

at the heart of the religious impulse there seems to be a certain solicitude for reality: the fear of foreclosing it or of reducing it to some merely human estimate.

This is a broad term, but we shall use it to designate the expression of the human aesthetic impulse, in both the creation of works of beauty and a love for and appreciation of beauty.

Whatever impulse his followers have had to labor for the amelioration of human life in ministering to the sick, the weak and helpless, the ignorant, the poverty - stricken, the imprisoned by any kind of chains, owes its primary origin to the love of God for persons as this was manifest in Jesus.

Both saw their systems as falling within the general framework of psychoanalytic thought, but both rejected Freud's fundamental assumption that the essence of human development is the working out of biological drives and impulses.

Such civil righteousness is not the same as spiritual righteousness, namely, the true pure love which only the Holy Spirit can work in human hearts against the impulses of the flesh.

The fall of Adam and Eve in the garden had bequeathed to human nature the impulse to seek self - interest first.

The story of Easter declares that the God of Beyond has died on the cross and through the Holy Spirit now is the human community as the struggle for human equalities and freedoms, the impulse for harmony.

It's also one of the most basic human impulses, and that's why Jesus wanted to challenge it: He wants his followers to trade a human way of thinking for a kingdom way of living.

The religious impulse of the ecological movement explains both its popularity — it satisfies a basic human need — and the uncertainty of its future.

As Heidegger journeyed more and more deeply into his intuition of Being, it became ever more clear to him that a central problem in Western culture is the forgetfulness of Being, and that this forgetfulness is symptomized by the will - to - power: that impulse to dominate and subjugate the world in light of human projects.

Both describe a kind of isolated individualism that is a human construction that would require constant technological maintenance against the real impulses of nature — a world so unnatural or unerotic that people would even be repulsed by the idea of natural reproduction.

Human power is on the agenda of virtually every creative impulse in theology today.

In a piece entitled «The happiness of pursuit», in Time magazine July 2013, we read: «All human beings may come equipped with the pursuit - of - happiness impulse — the urge to find lusher land just over the hill, fatter buffalo in the next valley — but it's Americans who have codified the idea, written it into the Declaration of Independence and made it a central mandate of the national character.»

There seem to be only two kinds of mind left; and — it is a disturbing thought — all natural mystical power and all human religious impulse seem to be concentrated on one side.

Vengeance, retribution, settling the score or whatever you call it is the most dangerous, and yet one of the strongest human impulses.

Secondly, by linking «art» with «communication», performance studies helps homiletics resist those impulses in the church and / or seminary cultures to devalue the human imagination in favor of «practicalities» and overemphasis on affect and affectation.

From popular interpretations of Freud (in many respects incautious and one - sided) it has come to be widely believed that sexual impulses are the central factor in human existence, that social restraints on sex are the source of unhappiness and illness, and that uninhibited sexual experience is the basis for human felicity.

Not all of our hymns, but many hymns, spirituals, carols, chants, and oratorios express with marvelous beauty and dignity the impulse of the human spirit to bless and glorify God.

I knew also that any effort I might make on behalf of justice would be triggered by my own lack of self - esteem and by the painful inclination to identify with the underdog, rather than by the human and sexual impulse to work for justice on the basis of a strong confidence in both myself and the power of God to love.

Some speak of human beings as essentially economic animals, others define them in terms of their sexual impulses, still others say that they are religious creatures.

Now that most of the world is necessarily turning its back on the soil, to start one's own business has replaced that fundamental human urge to farm one's own land — it is an expression of the natural creativity in man, and as such a profoundly moral impulse.

«God» is transparently an excuse made up by human beings to justify all of their worst impulses — group dynamics, exclusion, prejudice, and arbitrary control.

With respect to the human personality, the deepest ordering of impulse is cultural, is religious, occurs in myth and ritual.

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

This «overwhelming» exercise of American power has been a crude reinforcement of the worst impulse of human history — but this is the nuclear age, and that impulse simply must be checked.

These views differ and may not even be compatible, but they express a fundamental impulse of the human spirit.

Their well - intended programs to alleviate juvenile delinquency or ease the burdens of the aged overlook basic truisms: that the human impulse is to achieve; that children, like septuagenarians, respond to need more quickly than to praise; and that do - gooders all too often are egotists seeking applause rather than results.

We may have to construct answers to our suggested questions and then determine if the question and the answer correctly express the basic impulse of the human spirit.

Whether this impulse is a trace of some particularly vicious strain humans inherited from simian ancestors or whether it is the worst blight of original sin, we seem to be stuck with it as a part of human nature.

Its elitist impulses and professional temptations serve merely to remind us of its human shapes.

Otherwise apathy and even disgust will pervade the human mass, neutralizing or reversing every vigorous impulse at the heart of Life.

The increasingly apparent growth, overriding the monstrous and chaotic human dispersal which so distresses us, of this force of auto - unification emerging from the psychic energies released by our technico - social mastery of the earth: this surely is a guarantee that, within our universe, the impulse of totalization must eventually triumph over the impulses of dispersal.

Preceded by a tremor, a wave of «shared impulse» extending to the very depths of the social and ethnic masses in their need and claim to participate, without distinction of class or color, in the onward march of human affairs, the final act is already visibly preparing.

We have not yet taken sufficient account of the fact that this demand for the Absolute, not always easily discernible in the isolated human unit, is one of the impulses which grow and are intensified in the Noosphere.

Arising out of what I have said, the diagram at the end of this chapter represents the state of tension which has come to exist more or less consciously in every human heart as a result of the seeming conflict between the modern forward impulse (OX), induced in us all by the newly - born force of trans - hominization, and the traditional upward impulse of religious worship (OY).

I propose as that definition, realizing that it would probably exclude some of those already discussed, the following: The sacred book contains writings that purport to have been produced under divine or extra human inspiration or impulse, and which have come to be recognized by a substantial number of people as the basis of their religious faith, since it is regarded by them as the authentic revelation of God to them and to the world.

And wrongly because the real nature of this impulse that is sweeping us towards a state of super-organization is such as to make us more completely personalized and human.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.