Sentences with phrase «other human impulses»
Brand went on to ask: «Aren't there too many examples of Christian theology becoming tyrannical, abusive and bigoted or would you say those things are a result of other human impulses and not Christian?».
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I believe that we have established that there are definitely times when it is needed for us humans to take a stand against one another and our destructive suvivalists and hedonistic impulses; and it is also needed that we give each other grace and stand back to allow each other to believe and act as we wish.
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.
And conversely, of all the criminal human beings, the false, cowardly, sensual, or cruel persons who actually live, there is perhaps not one whose criminal impulse may not be at some moment overpowered by the presence of some other emotion to which his character is also potentially liable, provided that other emotion be only made intense enough.
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.
Yet the real interest of politics is in its uncertainty, in how marginal choices produce outcomes that must appear entertainingly arbitrary to the gods who know what would have happened if the coin had fallen the other way, or if a human impulse had chosen a slightly different expression.
After exploring the areas of the brain that fuel our empathetic impulses — and temporarily disabling other regions that oppose those impulses — two UCLA neuroscientists are coming down on the optimistic side of human nature.
Ancient Greece Plato compares the human will to a charioteer, driven by two horses, one representing our rational or moral impulses, and the other our irrational passions and appetites.
But in the best way, this is a tough movie to shake, and while it believes in the kindness of strangers, «Lean on Pete» never forgets every other human failing, impulse and circumstance.
They're all examples of ways that a growing number of educators — in school and out, at libraries, museums and other cultural institutions, at home and at community gatherings — are engaging in making things and leveraging the learning associated with that very human impulse to create.
Artist Statement My photography tends to triggers the impulse for investigation towards the elements perceived by the eyes - the other, the human, the particular behaviour, the authentic.
Graffiti, Chinese calligraphy, Carroll Dunham and a host of other graphic impulses ooze out of these paintings that, because of their human scale, feel quasi-figurative.
Nowadays many creators have been seduced into the space of otherness and the abject, as a banner we can lift the embodiments of delusion of Goya in his Black Paintings and The Disasters of War, or visit the work of David Cronenberg in The Fly, Tod Browings with Freaks, the otherness worked by Lynch, Bacon's deformed faces, the sexual exaltation in Picasso and Kubin, Barney's beautiful Chimeras, the twisted bodies of John Currin, or the «Frankensteinian» exercises of Cindy Sherman, they like many other artists, have used this place as a sign of vulnerability of the predatory condition, of the primary lethal and self - destructive impulses of human beings.
On the other hand, by covering Claes Oldenburg's iconic work Bedroom Ensemble with fake fur, Fleury calls upon human impulses of touching and feeling and the aesthetically pleasing charm of the artificial.
Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), The User's Guide to the Human Mind is a road map to the puzzling inner workings of the human mind, replete with exercises for overriding the mind's natural impulses toward worry, self - criticism, and fear, and helpful tips for acting in the service of your values and emotional well - being — even when your mind has other pHuman Mind is a road map to the puzzling inner workings of the human mind, replete with exercises for overriding the mind's natural impulses toward worry, self - criticism, and fear, and helpful tips for acting in the service of your values and emotional well - being — even when your mind has other phuman mind, replete with exercises for overriding the mind's natural impulses toward worry, self - criticism, and fear, and helpful tips for acting in the service of your values and emotional well - being — even when your mind has other plans.