Sentences with phrase «of human rationality»

Perhaps, though definitions based on intent are always weak, the best definition nonetheless involves intent: it is premodern to seek beyond rational knowledge for God; it is modern to desire to hold knowledge in the structures of human rationality (with or without God); it is postmodern to see the impossibility of such knowledge.

Modernity was the effort to destroy the claims of the medieval church to authority in order to put its own conceptions of human rationality at the center of human thought.

In short, from our perspective, it depended on an extremely parochial and naively optimistic view of American society and of the power of human rationality.

This power of selective abstraction of form is the very essence of human rationality.

The Father has sown seeds of the Word into the fabric of human rationality, which, when enkindled by the muse of the Spirit, causes persons to participate in the praise of creation for its Creator.

And Zippy the Pinhead, god of human rationality!

Good, because you feel normal, and bad, because you see the slow decline of human rationality.

Cultural cognition is no shortcut; it is an integral component in the machinery of human rationality.

This is post no. 2 on the question «Is cultural cognition a bias,» to which the answer is, «nope — it's not even a heuristic; it's an integral component of human rationality.»

Modernity sought to secure knowledge in the structure of human rationality, and relegated God to the «gaps» or denied Him all together.

In his Word of God and Mind of Man, Nash argued for a correspondence between the divine mind and human minds on the basis of innate ideas that were part of the structure of human rationality.

Tolkien and Eliot paint a picture of the artist as co-creator with God whose Word indwells creation and the structure of human rationality.