Sentences with phrase «purely human meaning»

Elisha uses purely human means.

Not exact matches

In oral cultures you could never have a well - developed science because science requires the recording and sharing of detailed information that the human brain can't provide through purely oral means.

But reason, taken in its totality — hence, not merely scientific reason, but reason in face of total reality — can never find the complete solution to human fulfillment in purely political, economic, technological or social means.

By efficacious, Balthasar means that because Christ is not just anyone but the divine «someone» his relationships transcend the normal conditions of purely human relationships.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

The fact that a crucial discontinuity exists between the purely animated envelope of the Earth and its thinking envelope (i.e. between the Biosphere and the Noosphere), which is manifest in the fundamentally different proceedings of Life on either side of this gap between the two layers, naturally does not mean that the Human sprang into existence among the Living in an immediate state of completeness.

His plea for a core of human freedom, meaning, and moral agency must seem, from a purely scientific standpoint, like little more than wishful thinking.

On one hand there is the attempt to unravel the various threads (of the narrative) so that in the end one holds in one's hands what is the «really historical,» which means the purely human element in events.

If human thought is regarded as fundamentally qualitative and valuational, if it involves a grasp of meaning and significance that can not be completely formalized, then it may not be possible to duplicate human technical reason in a purely mechanical system.

The black line, reconstructed from ISCCP satellite data, «is a purely statistical parameter that has little physical meaning as it does not account for the non-linear relations between cloud and surface properties and planetary albedo and does not include aerosol related albedo changes such as associated with Mt. Pinatubo, or human emissions of sulfates for instance» (Real Climate).

Of course, while most human activity combines expressive and physical elements, some human activity is purely physical and does not convey or attempt to convey meaning.