Sentences with phrase «power in human affairs»

As the big lie grows that nuclear war can be won, the illusion grows that the ability to destroy other nations with nuclear weapons is the supreme exemplification of unilateral power in human affairs.

The most distinctive form of power in human affairs extends beyond the acquired responses of mind, to the self - transcending action of the human spirit.

Not exact matches

Though physical force in human affairs is largely replaced by rational and purposive controls, the connection of these higher forms of power with direct compulsion remains.

The anatomy of social power vividly illustrates the interfusion of physical, mental, and spiritual elements in human affairs.

They want to get rid of the trappings of religion but hold on to the belief in a benign deity with some degree of loving power over human affairs.

But the universal, active as it may be in reason and rightly influential in human affairs, lacks the power to bend the arc of human affairs away from sin's destruction.

Niebuhr goes on to add that the fact that the will to power inevitably justifies itself in terms of the morally more acceptable will to realize our true nature means that the egoistic corruption of universal ideals is a much more persistent fact in human affairs than any moralistic creed is inclined to admit.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

In this sense it is essentially a Christian doctrine, but this does not preclude the fact that others than Christians may experience its power and contribute toward its forward movement within human affairs.

This is not to belittle the enormous power of belief in human affairs; far from it.

«We strongly believe in the human - animal bond and its therapeutic power,» says Vanessa Mariani, Director of Academic & Professional Affairs at Zoetis.