Sentences with phrase «power of reason»

Now — when man has better power of reason, able to analyze something supposedly supernatural..

Human culture is the expression of the creative power of reason.

A true atheist, with even moderate powers of reason, would not convert because they decide they like the «moral compass» all of a sudden.

He becomes a man without faith in his fellowmen or in himself, without the experience of his own love, of his own power of reason.

The Greeks, by contrast, employed their growing powers of reason to order the world about them and then to discover the order objectively present in that world.

In the Qur» an we find constant cooperation between the two antagonistic powers of reason and emotion, for we find that in the narrations, arguments, doctrines, laws, and moral principles the words have both a persuasive teaching and an emotive force.

While man is not a stone, or a tree, or a dog, or a chimpanzee, but a creature whose powers of reason and spirit set him apart, still his past merges with one vast creative process that recedes into primordial mystery.

Our normal powers of reason and even our religious imagination could hardly have conjured it up.

And I like your exceptional powers of reasoning!

By adroitly combining valid information with culturally affirming meanings, these communications succeed in getting people to reflectively assess evidence that they might otherwise dismiss out of hand (btw, if your goal is not simply to get people to open - mindedly consider evidence using their own powers of reason — if you just want to make them believe something, who cares how — you are not a science communicator; you are a propagandist).

He's pretty inarticulate for a lawyer and if his piece in the Herald is any indication his powers of reasoning could be improved as well.

Hume believed that the power of reason is largely negative, showing that seemingly settled beliefs rest on shallow and insubstantial foundations.

Civility is always in short supply and one can readily agree that «we need to keep in mind the common humanity that we share with those with whom we disagree,» and that «we should never lose faith in the power of reason,» and that the Church should never be used «as a partisan political tool.»

Aristotle, who had such faith in the power of reason that he could not imagine an individual knowing what is right and failing to do it, nevertheless invented a term to describe such people.

Be creative in a way that your power of desire should not overshadow your power of reason.

Our task is not (as it is for positivism) to discover the covering laws that explain and predict observable associations of conditions and events, but to use all available empirical evidence and powers of reason to develop conceptual models that as accurately as possible describe the real capacities and causal processes operating at the deeper, unobservable level of reality.

By civil righteousness, Luther meant that people, by the powers of reason with which they are endowed, can refrain from murdering one another, or stealing, or lying.

Atheism is a religion, whose god is mankind, self, and science, through the power of reason, logic, and intellect, whose prophets are Darwin, Dawkins, and Hitchens, and whose disciples zealously seek converts with more passion and fervor than other religions.

As Sherry Turkle, author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, points out: «We cede to the computer the power of reason, but at the same time, in our defense, our sense of identity becomes increasingly focused on the soul and spirit in the human machine.»

It is the power of reason which sets him apart from the lower animals.

That's the power of reason.

Faith is regarded as a way of grasping the truth quite beyond the power of reason.

By the power of reason man can create a «community» of consciousness through harmoniously inter-relating in various degrees the diverse elements which go into his experience.

1 Sam 15:22 use your powers of reasoning.

The seeds of this logos reside in humans as the power of reason — something of the divine, cosmic order in everyone, akin, perhaps, to the Quakers» inward light.

There is famous quote by the agnostic Dr. Jastrow «For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream.

It has seemed incredible that human beings endowed with any power of reason should hypnotize themselves with doctrines of «national honor» or «sacred right» and pursue mass murder to exhaustion or ruin.»

In this necessarily brief statement let me simply say that the mode of power in which an action exercises power on one of its subordinate events may include the power of reasons.

Through the power of reason they are suffused with significance.

This political instinct ennobles us, for it calls us to use our powers of reason and capacities for loyalty and even sacrifice to serve the common good.

Moreover the Church has always believed in the power of reason to reach the truth.

The remarkable faculties of a conscious mind embrace the powers of reason and intelligence, as well as the powers of love and solidarity.

Possessing hands as well as intelligence, and being able, in consequence, to devise artificial instruments without becoming somatically involved, he has succeeded, while increasing and boundlessly extending his mechanical efficiency, in preserving intact his freedom of choice and power of reason.

Protestant Modernism, on the other hand, extols the power of reason throughout both science and theology.

I agree with her on many issues and principles, but I have not surrendered or yielded my powers of reason to Rand.

Some will be converted by the power of his reason to some kind of process philosophy and / or theology, while others will glean from him significant new insights to be incorporated into their own more traditional perspectives.

Our powers of reason have allowed us to provided better and better explanations for the mysteries of the universe, however, as long as some mystery remains, people will inherently feel destabilized by it and fill the gaps with religious dogma.