Sentences with phrase «of human instincts»

[29][I] t is the most natural of human instincts to want to go home.

As a first - generation Mexican - American, she considers the shameful act of slowly losing one's native tongue and the spectrum of human instincts that arise when attempting to connect without words.

With all the new competition and marketing's tendency to appeal to the basest of human instincts (hunting things or destroying things), there was a race to the bottom.

Warrior diet is an unconventional diet that appeals to be an integral part of the human instincts and it's characterized with the freedom of eating it has to offer.

The naivety was the belief that despite the commodification, or capitalization, of nature it was still possible to rely on the decency of human instincts to promote the common good.

Stewart Dougherty is the creator of Inferential Analytics, a forecasting method that applies to events proprietary, time - tested principles of human instinct, desire and action.

Most if not all religions have a story to make sense out of the human instinct that we are somehow deficient, that something has to be done about it, and that since this something has been done everything's okay.

It's a classic concept, one that endures because of the human instinct to share our stories.

Not exact matches

«The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster... Specialization in verbiage, classification, and mechanized thinking has put man out of touch with many of the marvelous powers of «instinct» which govern his body.

The problem, according to the post by Melissa Dahl, is that our instincts on how to best utilize our time off are often at odds with the psychology of what actually refreshes the human brain.

The biggest hurdle, of course, is what is seen as the future of investing: a dramatic turn toward complex computer algorithms and artificial intelligence - and away from the human touch, the instincts and the judgment honed over decades that once put Miller at the top of the heap.

Developed through years of evolution, our basic human instincts are necessary for our survival.

With that musing in mind, I was interested to read this reflection from Roger Kimball, in his TLS review of Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution:

This technology reinforces natural instincts, such as the prolongation of human life, which inevitably entails great costs - greater costs than the welfare state can bear.

While it's human nature for us to stay in groups of like - minded folks, it's always important to strive beyond our instincts for comfort and security.

And their instinct is perfectly sound, for the food - crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.»

But adult humans must make moral decisions, they can not govern this world wisely based on the instincts pf territory protection and expansion, slaying the offspring of others to make sure ours thrive, fighting, freezing, fleeing, fretting, or withdrawing into a fantasy world where we alone make decisions.

He also refers to a presumably relevant property of human consciousness whereby, when consciousness entertains abstractions, «there is always present a preservative instinct aiming at the renewal of connection, which is the reverse of abstraction» (MT 169).

Just as the emergence of reflection was a crucial moment, a breaking point in the world of instinct, so religious belief is a unique event of ultimate import, a breaking point and crisis in human rational experience and history, both individually and collectively.

You can not compare the evolutionary «moral» instincts of animals, which do what they do just to survive... to the human sense of innate morality, which is not necessarily based on survival.

Otherwise they will be like indolent workmen who find no spur to action in a task to be achieved; or else, if a healthy human instinct overrides their hesitancies or the fallacies they derive from a misunderstanding of religion, they will still be a prey to a fundamental division and frustration within themselves, and it will be said that the sons of heaven can not, on the human level, compete with true conviction and therefore on equal terms with the children of this world.

Humans are animals who have lost our instincts (our fixed, inborn patterns of response) and have developed reason, self - awareness, and autonomy to replace them.

This, of course, is a challenge because it challenges our humanity and our human instinct.

Calvin labeled the religious instinct «the idol factory of the human heart.»

It includes these, but in man as an emergent of the kind we have outlined, sexual instinct has as its context the thrust towards fulfillment in relationship with another of his own human kind.

The point of all this is that dominance is the one animal instinct the human race either inherited from its primate forebears and retained after losing all the other instincts, or acquired by imitating this animal behavior when the human race fell from a higher nature.

Wise advocates of fraternal love face that fact, and seek to keep the human instinct to demonize the other in check.

For centuries interpreters have explored and exploited this male language to articulate theology; to shape the contours and content of the church, synagogue and academy; and to instinct human beings — female and male — in who they are, what roles they should play, and how they should behave.

Grace alone seems to have the power to free us from nature's deterministic instincts; but that doesn't mean that the wisdom and freedom to become fully human in the sense of being able to discern and choose more god - like behavior is easily achieved or sustained.

On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»

Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our fate.

And human beings are the only species capable of self - determination; we do not function solely out of instinct.

The Islam is a religion, which promotes the low instincts or carnal desires of human beings.

For centuries interpreters have explored and exploited this male language to articulate theology; to shape the contours and content of the church, synagogue and academy; and to instinct human beings — female and male — in who they are,...

The key to human nature therefore lies in both the organic inheritance of evolution through the brain, which is instinct with natural law, harmonic order and finely tuned mutual balance, and in the free, dynamic seeking of truth and values and their free administration by the directly created spirit.

Animals live out of instinct and aren't bound by some imaginary god, making them far more superior than humans.

This postulate of invariability seems at first sight to be admissible in the «Darwinian» zones of Life, where the instinct of self - preservation predominates (this seeming by its nature to be more or less constant among organized beings), but it certainly loses all value in the «Lamarckian» or human zone, where biological evolution, from being passive, becomes active in the pursuit of its purpose.

Knox seems to acknowledge that some of ourproblems arise from our «friends», when he writes: «There will be fresh attempts to dissociate natural theology altogether from our experience of the natural world around us, to concentrate more and more on precarious arguments derived from the exigencies and the instincts of human nature itself.»

There will be fresh attempts to dissociate natural theology altogether from our experience of the natural world around us, to concentrate more and more on precarious arguments derived from the exigencies and the instincts of human nature itself.

There will be fresh attempts to dissociate natural theology altogether from our experience of the natural word around us, to concentrate more and more on precarious arguments derived from the exigencies and the instincts of human nature itself.

Reich's core argument is that human beings are fundamentally sexual beings — one might perhaps say «nothing more than sexual beings» — and that all social ills can be traced back to the repression of their sexual instincts.

The hyperindividualistic, instinct - centered view of Freud reduced human development to what is essentially the intrapsychic evolving of the instincts.

If love is sincere, there is little difficulty in noting the issues or differences that may arise; on the one hand the indiscriminate instinct of lust with its promptings to seek satisfaction with the first appealing person available; on the other, the particularised human instinct (the conjugal instinct already present) urging a young person to keep the gift of sexuality for one; and to respect that «one» when found but withoutthere yet being a mutual conjugal commitment.

The liberal instinct is to blame human misery on environmental factors, and tell those affected that they have nothing to be ashamed of.

Formerly «instinct» could be treated as a sort of homogeneous quantity varying (something like temperature) on a scale running from zero to the point of Reflection representing human thought.

I, being human, do understand it and know of no reason why I should, except on «faith», which itself can not be understood except that it depends on our more primitive instincts like fear of death.

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

Concede that a dog's love is really only «instinct» masquerading as love and, surprisingly, you will find you can not prevent others from concluding that human love is just a more elaborate variation of the same phenomenon.

Guilty for having normal human range of emotions, instincts, reactions, etc..

I think that it's a human instinct, a religious instinct, when we don't understand and really believe in grace and in the goodness of people to use fear, shame and guilt to motivate people to do good.