Sentences with phrase «particularities of being human»

It will also offer necessary context for some of the particularities of being human, who behaved just like other mammals only a few thousand years ago and who still share most underlying basic behavioral characteristics such as hunger and pain.

That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation — that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life - in - itself clothes itself in the sex drive — belongs to the particularity of being human.

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Though St. Augustine was sometimes a critic of Origen, he and many leading theologians through the Middle Ages failed to take seriously the particularity of the human being, Jesus of Nazareth.

While arriving at what is true, good, and beautiful occurs through the particularity of human constructs, those transcendentals are not reducible to such constructs.

It is also, of course, what we have called the metaphorical method, taking the human in all its particularity and mundanity as one partner in associations to move beyond the human — but in such a way that that human is never left behind.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

Rather, it informs all as to the basic principles that ought to be taken into account in coming to specific judgments, in interpreting the particularities of human situations and in guiding concerted action.

The particularity of the American regime is counterpoised by its foundation in universal human rights, the modern articulation of our equality as beings created in the image of God.

In defending the specialness of the American regime, Bercier also defends the particularity of any people or tradition that gets obfuscated by excessively abstract or universal categories of description; while he concedes that «the Logos is universal» he denies that this is a «universality that legitimizes any human claim to universal rule».

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

They do have their own active and creative manner of collectively representing their historicity, which I am arguing, is closely intertwined with their experience with what they take to be the Divine Power, Ellaiyamman as the goddess of the Paraiyars is a pivotal symbol of the source (and the hope of protection) of this distinct physical and conceptual space: she conserves their geographic space by guarding their particularity as a community and she represents their conceptual space as self - reflective human beings.

It is the contingent character of this human response to the divine Word which generates the particularities that God then uses in the furtherance of his general aim at the intensification of value.

Bynum claims not only that the church was not dualistic about body and soul, but that it stressed the importance of human difference and particularity.

In this context the problem of particularity is two problems in one: it is the problem of the relationship between one historical event, the event of Jesus Christ, and all other particulars in the universe; it is also the question of the relationship between human history and the cosmic process in general.

The process alternative seems better equipped to accomplish such a release from human particularity, indeed, Whitehead once defined religion as that which «is directed to the end of stretching individual interest beyond its self - defeating particularity.

among the Paraiyar there is a forging of subjectivity by wedding together some ingredients that can be retained as signs of Dalit particularity with some components that can be skillfully appropriated as signs of human universality from the larger caste Hindu worldview.

Rather, it is a gospel of the free experience of God's engagement in the lives of God's people, which is freely and creatively expressed according to the particularities of various human communities, especially as represented by the Dalits and Adivasis.

Traditional Western theology treats particularity as a problem in divine providence, or even as an issue in divine election: why should God's knowledge and mission be restricted to particular segments of human history?

It is a description of the very process of reality at the human level, where sensitivities, feelings and emotions from the world, evoking an appreciation and a reverence for the world, contribute their particularity to process.

Symbiotic realism is a theory which accounts for the neurobiological substrates of human nature, as well as for the particularities of the world we live in: anarchic, yet characterized by instant connectivity and deep interdependencies.

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I would say that the right to education in its twofold nature overarches the general twofold of all human rights: not only its implementation is twofold (having to be universal and particular at the same time) but the particularities actually can be and are created and sustained by implementing the right to education.

But what ties it all together is a few candid seconds of the artist's own face, alternately gazing into and ignoring the camera as she tries to capture the evasive reality of what it means to be human now, using herself in all her particularity as an example.

Feelings of transcendent universality, specifically the historic appeals to spirit of geometric abstraction, are presented as not only coexistent with, but inseparable from human passions and particularities.

Emphasizing that the United Nations has an important and continuing role to play in promoting and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, Believing that this Declaration is a further important step forward for the recognition, promotion and protection of the rights and freedoms of indigenous peoples and in the development of relevant activities of the United Nations system in this field, Recognizing and reaffirming that indigenous individuals are entitled without discrimination to all human rights recognized in international law, and that indigenous peoples possess collective rights which are indispensable for their existence, well - being and integral development as peoples, Recognizing that the situation of indigenous peoples varies from region to region and from country to country and that the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical and cultural backgrounds should be taken into consideration, Solemnly proclaims the following United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a standard of achievement to be pursued in a spirit of partnership and mutual respect: