Sentences with phrase «place 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.

Not exact matches

In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good things in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the human person) goes a long way to putting the passions in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole).

In place of Lewis's Law of Morality, more enlightened people would champion reason and kindness: principles that are pliable and human, not rigid and cold.

The all knowing God has to invent earth and humans and love and war and every aspect of each etc. etc. and It already knows how the game will be played and end before starting because It is the Inventor so no reason to run through the idle act of playing the game in the first place.

If only those who are exposed to the gospel and express explicit faith in Jesus Christ receive salvation, I reasoned, then that would mean the majority of the human race is damned to hell simply for being born at the wrong place and the wrong time.

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

And attempts to restore religious freedom to its proper philosophical place, as something like the sine qua non of freedom itself, presuppose just the view of human nature and reason that our post-Christian liberalism rejects from the outset.

The reason for doing this is because humans as they stand now are not capable of laying eyes on the Nines true astral forms due to the limitations of the collective whole your race has put into place that you know as your reality.

For this reason, future human creativity occupies a preeminent place in our pursuit of the comprehensive telos.

It is a shift in theological method from locating the basis of authority in the objective written Word of God to placing it in human reason and experience.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

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

If human reason aspires to be the judge of God's statements, it makes itself the unevaluated evaluator, which is to say it takes God's place.

Atheist and believer will disagree too about the definition of the human person, about the sources and character of power, about definitions of success and materialism, the power and place of reason in the struggle for bread.

«Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8 - 9; 63:2 - 3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).»

The reason He can remit punishment to human beings who repent and turn to Him is that Christ, the Lamb of God, has taken the punishment in their place.

In place of the human being who immediately knows himself or herself as a subject and who provides the starting point for Whitehead's analysis, there is suddenly substituted a multiplicity of entities whose existence is hypothetically assumed by reason of an altogether different starting point.

Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].

Now all of may look at the church now and throughout history and point out abuses that have happened, wars with the excuses being church dogma etc and argue about coming to a more enlightened place with human reasoning.

But in reality it gives too little place to the universal power of natural human reason, whether philosophical, scientific, or historical.

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

One reason for the unattractiveness of church worship in so many places and on so many occasions is that this appeal to and expression of human wholeness has been neglected or forgotten.

The words «science», «intelligence» and «reason» do not find any place in sacred scripture which puts the source of human knowledge in the «heart».

Leo XIII advocated the revival of Thomism in the first place because Thomas» thought provides a way of articulating faithfully the content of the Catholic faith, but also because, contrary to Enlightenment rationalism, it maintains the importance of divine revelation within human history, and avoids exaggerating human reason's capacity to know the divine without the help of grace.

Given that St. Thomas» theological project is both materially and intentionally open ended, and given that the Magisterium recognises that philosophy must take adequate account of the advances of modern science, if one could demonstrate that the perspective proposed by Holloway and now by Faith movement and magazine fulfilled all of the criteria mentioned above - i.e. it is a unified vision of the Catholic faith that gives due place to the role of human reason without blurring the distinction between nature and grace and one that presents our revealed faith uncompromisingly and in its entirety - one could justifiably claim that the Faith vision is totally coherent with, if not the total content of St. Thomas» theology, then most certainly the aims and intentionsset out in Aeterni Patris.

Pro-lifers protest rightly that the social value of the individual enshrined in our centuries old legal tradition is being eroded by various anti-life measures, but unfortunately less importance has been placed on defending the value of human nature per se by arguments from natural reason.

2) it speaks of a single human being placed above the rest of humans for reasons of magic.

First, we are given an in - depth discussion of the process of practical reasoning; the moral evaluation of human action; a philosophical psychology that draws together the roles of intellect, will, and emotion in human acts and in the development of virtuous or vicious moral character; the nature of sin and the foundational role of conversion to Christ; and the place of law in the Christian life.

Granted, the majority of those opposed to Qatar have a plethora of reasons in their arsenal to object to the event; from human rights violations to extreme heat but is another reason for objection because the World Cup is taking place in a Middle Eastern country?

«There are adequate, if not overwhelming, reasons to be concerned that the two repositories that are under debate right now are not the only places in the world where live smallpox virus still exists,» says Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and head of the US delegation to the Geneva meeting.

There were certain boundaries we wanted to erect: no pregnancy except to give birth to a child; no human embryos placed in animals for any reason; no fertilization of a human egg by animal sperm or the reverse; no buying or selling or patenting of human life at any stage; no child conceived except by the union of one egg and one sperm, both taken from adults.

Scientists still do not fully know the precise reasons for the extinction of many species; it probably took place due to a combination of climate change and hunting by humans.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

We educate for various reasons, of course, but at the most basic level, we teach our children lore, skills, beliefs, and a sense of their place in the scheme of things in order to perpetuate the family, the tribe, the nation, and finally — though our teachings sometimes veer from the ideal or ignore the obvious — the human race itself.

Defined as «the ability to understand and share the feelings of another,» humans clearly have empathy, for each other and animals — this is the entire reason that storytelling works for us; we can put ourselves in the place of the characters, feeling what they're feeling as well as feeling for them.

As if this were not a sufficiently negative outlook with overtones of schadenfreude, ironically, the continued manhandling and bullying (abusive human body language) is the major reason why the dog was upset and felt like biting in the first place.

The whole reason the piping plover — and so many other bird species — are endangered in the first place is human development and loss of habitat.

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

Fred, I go by what I read: to invite you to develop a reasoned and lightly referenced argument for and against the proposition highlighted in the extract below — «the null hypothesis should now be reversed, thereby placing the burden of proof on showing that there is no human influence»... Both essays would be written «blind» — i.e., without seeing the others» essay — They do not state what the null hypothesis is.

Whatever the reasons for our spectacular failure to communicate meaningfully and sensibly about what somehow could be real about the workings of the Earth and the placement of the human species within the natural order of living things, these circumstances are incredible and present the human family with a potentially colossal threat to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as a fit place for human habitation.

By enshrining in law the anti-GMO arguments of environmentalists about Bt eggplant, and rejecting science and reason in the process, the Phillipine Court of Appeals has placed in real jeopardy one of the most important potential advances in agriculture and human health since the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 70s.

While it may be kind of cute that this tiny owl would try to make a home on a cruise ship of all places, human encroachment into its natural habitat is likely the reason it ended up vying to live in such an unnatural spot.

I stepped in to remind my client of the goal of the site and all of the reasons they had decided to do this in the first place, including differentiating themselves, putting a more human face on the firm and its lawyers, and developing connections with clients with similar non-business interests.

They have reasonable expectations, they treat employees like human beings, and, at the end of the day, are the reason you have a small business in the first place.

This was one of the reasons he stated for wishing to repeal the Human Rights Act in the first place.

There was no question that Ottawa Valley Cleaning and Restoration had discriminated against Bouraoui contrary to the section 5 («employment») of the Ontario Human Rights Code: Jesse's sole reason for denying Bouraoui employment was his race, colour and place of origin.

«any action undertaken for reasons of safety, security or public protection that relies on stereotypes about race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, or place of origin rather than on reasonable suspicion, to single out an individual for greater scrutiny or different treatment» (OHRC, Paying the Price: The Human Cost of Racial Profiling, 2003, p. 6).

Still, our findings suggest continued reasons for concern about the effectiveness of the mechanisms Hacking Team has in place to ensure respect for human rights in the use of their products.

The primary reason for such state of affairs being the demand supply ratio for human resource balanced in an unfavorable manner for the job aspirants; this selection process actually goes through a number of rigorous steps the initial being the interview which takes place on the basis of the resume that one submits to the HR department of an organization.