Sentences with phrase «of human reason»

Since the source of the image is infinite in depth, the image bears something of this depth, something beyond the limits of human reason.

It requires the use of human reason and human learning.

Finally, the third stage reduces the scope of human reason even further.

To claim that this question has no meaning is to deny the core of human reasoning.

The primates seemed capable of moral judgment without benefit of human reasoning.

It is central to the university's DNA and core mission to advance knowledge, scientific understanding and the cultivation of human reason.

There is no way, IMO, to seriously consider the mechanisms of these phenomena without examining more deeply the related cognitive and psychological elements of human reasoning.

Again, this is the doctrinal position of the Catholic Church: «If anyone says that the One true God, our Creator and Lord, can not be known with certainty with the natural light of human reason through the things that are created anathema sit.»

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life.

«If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason; for then we should know the mind of God,» he said, HIS words not mine.

[27] The material evidence itself is ambivalent because it is offered to human freedom, but only those who find design in creation, a providential design surpassing all human reconstructions, can uphold the final meaningfulness of human reason.

The philosophers would not acknowledge that by «becoming flesh» the divine Logos made it possible for human beings to know God more fully than they could by means of human reasoning alone.

Our editorial argues, among other things, that the object of modern science is not a radically delimited subset of the physical realm, and thus that scientific methodology, properly understood, is just a part of that exercise of human reason which is ultimately in profound synthetic harmony with faith.

«Scottish Enlightenment asserted the fundamental importance of human reason combined with a rejection of any authority that could not be justified by reason.

Commerce is not the only entity that is infected; this virus has incapacitated each aspect of human reasoning.

The sort whose motives and actions are unjust and nonsensical unless they successfully pass through the filter of human reasoning.

If, as many seem to think, neo-Darwinism serves as a valid «design - defeating hypothesis» at the level of human reason but is rescued from any ultimately improper conclusions only by the intervention of theology, then it seems that my expansive definition is fully vindicated.

Some have argued that belief in God is a supernatural gift of God not depending on any achievement of human reason.

Is it possible, the critics ask, that what makes the Christian theological task so difficult is just that the message of our dependence on God's grace is not credible to an age that believes in individual autonomy and the competence of human reason?

Having granted the legitimate, indeed essential, place of human reason within religion, we need to identify the truth about God and the world, and the relationship between them.

There was also in the piety of my childhood — and this is particularly ironic in view of Martin Luther's suspicion of human reason — an unhealthy strain of rationalism.

His jeremiad is no mere denunciation of a corrupt political class but of the Spaniards» failure to live up to even the basic dictates of human reason.

I thought the last of human reason was incinerated over Hiroshima, but no.

Rationists stand looking at the stinking corpse of human Reason and place a crown on its head.

So, for Bailey «The battle is really between those who want to use the gifts of human reason and human compassion to ameliorate illness and death and those... who counsel fatalistic acceptance of the manifold cruelties randomly meted out by nature.»

These results indicate that transitive reasoning may be a fundamental type of human reasoning.

Fundamentalism is distrustful of human reason.

They know that religion is an old machine that will never wear out and that has always been used to insure the fidelity of people and put a brake on the restlessness of human reason.

Moreover, it is foundational to Catholic orthodoxy that God, the origin and end of all things, «can be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason from the things that he created».

I sense in Schubert Ogden, especially, a degree of confidence in the formulations of human reason comparable to that of Professor Hartshorne, which I am unable to share.

Its adherents are said to believe in the irrelevance of deity, supremacy of human reason, inevitability of progress, science as the guide to human progress, autonomy and centrality of the individual, and evolution as an absolute.

[5] Catholic understanding of original sin is that it only weakened human nature and did not destroy the basic inclination of the human will toward good and of the human reason toward truth; therefore, man can use his will and reason in cooperation withGod's grace which will perfect these faculties of human nature in directing them toward their true purpose to give glory to God.

It is true that theologians have generally stressed the limitations of human reason, especially in things divine, and have left little question that the knowledge of God realized by Christian faith has both a scope and a certainty that reason as such is powerless to provide.

Secondly, while the church has its own contribution to make to the biopolitical task, much that is required is the work of human reason, using categories and techniques developed in the secular sphere.

In a 1964 Playboy interview posted on the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights site, she said that religious faith is «a negation of human reason» and charity wasn't a virtue.

Screwtape's aversion to and fear of human reason and science is especially understandable when viewed in light of process thought.

The Enlightenment, with its assertion of the autonomy of human reason, is also a factor in the process of secularization.

Such an affront, he argues, came in the past as it comes now from that brash and unbaptized libeler of human reason the perennial harlequin, the votary of the ridiculous, the extravagant, the «fanciful.»