Sentences with phrase «of human intellect»

Featuring very little virtual reality effects in the first two acts, we are witness to Jobe embarking on this journey from a developmentally challenged man who advances beyond the range of human intellect in such a short amount of time.

The astronomical discoveries of the past century, many made by American scientists, are among the great triumphs of the human intellect, and we deeply regret any attempt to ignore them or deny them.

Exploring what causes some people to construct false answers that they genuinely believe to be true, the author argues that these considerations of these causes tell us something important about the structure of human intellect.

Much of the human intellect, he believes, may come from these nonelectrical, free - floating signals.

Documenting the extent of human stupidity may itself seem a fool's errand, which could explain why studies of human intellect have tended to focus on the high end of the intelligence spectrum.

Science is essentially a function of the human intellect.

These glosses called into question the creation of the world in time, the role of the senses and the imagination in human knowing, the individuality (and personal responsibility) of the human intellect and will, the immortality of the human composite of body and soul, the role of divine Providence, the simple standard of one truth governing both theology and philosophy, and other foundations of both Catholic faith and empirical (as distinct from gnostic) reason.

True, Hook never understood that bit of data as Maritain did, or accepted the interpretation of human life that went with it, but his experience of the movement of human intellect to utter thanks remains a phenomenon to be explained.

what Hartshorne accomplished, even when others do not agree with his form of theism, is to hold the prism of the human intellect up to the divine light, the better to display the full spectrum of responsible thinking about God.

«9 Hence, while Whitehead and Bergson share a suspicion about the over-intellectualization of reality Whitehead thinks Bergson is committed to some sort of necessity about this «built - in» to the nature of the human intellect.

And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object of knowledge and of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies of the human intellect and of human intelligence, can be overcome by a biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.

It was a towering achievement of human intellect and changed the way humans think.

These theories witness to the power of the human intellect, but few would claim that they bear on questions of faith and morals.»

Instead, my argument was based on the natural ability of the human intellect to grasp the intelligible realities that populate the natural world, including most clearly and evidently the world of living substances, living beings.

Otherwise, the patient may suffer the loss of human intellect due to a tremendous decrease of brain.

In its broadest sense, design may be defined as the rigorous application of human intellect and creativity in the search for beautiful, efficient and sustainable solutions.

Not exact matches

Try avoiding the trap of trying to capture everything digitally and capturing everything with human emotion and intellect.

Emotional intelligence taps into a fundamental element of human behavior that is distinct from your intellect.

The human intellect knows no depth to which it can not sink when it is under the stupidity ether of religion.

probably the intricacies of the human body, the universe, love, intellect, emotion... should be enough to convince anyone... This is why atheists comprise less than 3 % of the worlds population

I believe the human intellect is the product of evolution.

«Tom», even though krhodes share the same intellect as a box of hair, a box of hair might remind a human of a loved one.

We can «know» with a lesser or greater degree of probability, but, without the attribute of omniscience, the human intellect will always have its limitations.

I have argued that a fully developed «theology of the finite» must accept and affirm both the pleasure and the pain of human physicality, since we are not free - floating spirits or intellects but embodied persons.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

The discipline and penances of the body and soul are born out of an awareness of the evil which exists in the person's attachment to the fallen world through the senses, the intellect, and the spirit.They are meant to assist in the purification of these fallen attachments within the human person.

Scripture often speaks of truths which are above the human intellect, trying to describe realities that we can not humanly fathom.

I fear, however, that Barr has misunderstood my argument and possibly misconceived the issue of whether the human intellect can discern the reality of design in the world of living things.

In the case of matter below man this is through relationship to the Mind of God that frames the whole of creation, and in the case of human nature through direct integration with the individual and personal centre of control and direction (intellect and will) that we call the «soul».

What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine with our unaided human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by faith.

Science is the great success story of the unaided human intellect.

Richardson is very skillful, however, in the use of selectionand evocative quotation, ensuring Newman is allowed to speak for himself in clarifying the process by which the human mind makes it possible to subscribe to an act of religious faith which is seen to be an act of the intellect.

Did you ever think when you are typing words, gathering your thoughts, deciding / choosing what to say, and using the best intellect you can find in your brain; that you are conscious in these thoughts / decisions, and that your eyes / hands / brain synapses, are all part of the lense (of the human body) that you are able to see and control to the limitations inherent in its essence?

Weil had immense respect for the human intellect and the vital importance of the kind of truth that is accessible only to the intellect.

It has deeply enriched my appreciation of the universal reach of the human spirit to encounter giant intellects and cosmic spirits in Asia and Africa.

His dualistic psychology should be seen for what it is: a put - down of the «inferior» human activities of the body, time and multiplicity by the «superior» activities of intellect, will and memory.

But that is not to say that God does not have qualities commonly associated with human personality, such as awareness, intellect and most importantly in my opinion, love, which is connected to peace, and which I see as the heart of my own spirituality.

mostly scienific knowlege.The perfect conscience is an equilateral triangle, but knowlege is dynamic and keeps on increasing, over time, our conscience triangle becomes distorted or obtuse.So we have to adjust or increase also our religious dogma and correspondingly our philosophy to maintain the equilateral triangle of conscience.This evolutionary process is the center piece of Panthrotheism.that involve the whole range of human conciousness and intellect.

A fifth dimension of the theological task is to present theological insights in ways that captivate the human imagination and emotions, not simply the intellect.

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If it does not expect blind providence to save man through technical and material change, neither does it trust to a «free - ranging human intellect which contrives systems of absolute validity.»

To act and know that we are acting, to come into touch with reality and even to live it,... such is the function of human intelligence... From the ocean of life, in which we are immersed, we are continually drawing something, and we feel that our being, or at least the intellect that guides it, has been formed therein by a kind of local concentration.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

The notions of intellect and will or desireare schemata that we (following the philosophers of ancient Greece) impose on human life for the purpose of describing and influencing it; and the notions of faith, hope and charity are further schemata fitted on by theologians as life rises above what is natural.

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

The challenge to the human intellect from the seventeenth century onward has been the challenge of completing the Copernican Revolution.

«The massive desolation of the intellect and spirits and the human futures of these millions of young people in their neighborhoods of poverty» is a «national horror hidden in plain view,» Kozol writes, quoting Roger Wilkins.

This same movement leads to distinct concepts in the human intellect and to material objects relatively exclusive of one another.

The reason of Jefferson and Paine and of what Henry May calls the Moderate Enlightenment that informed the Constitution did not rebel against the providential order, but at most rejected the received ways of understanding that order» tradition, authority, revelation, scripture» in favor of trusting in fresh human intellect.

The native genius and character of the several peoples of the Western world; the profound significance of the Greek intellect still potent in the analytic mood of the present; the constructive, organizing genius of Rome: all these and much more have gone into the making of the modern dwelling of the human spirit.