How else explain the affinity between the cognitive
qualities of the human mind and the laws by which the universe moves?
At a time like this, we need to address not only the structure of education but also the nature and
quality of human mind and life; thus calling for a transformative new approach that breaks through the frontiers of particular cultures.
Not exact matches
These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «
qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations
of men and women to grasp a vision
of the good life, a life
of responsible citizenship and
human decency» (ICC 6).
When this philosophic dimension is admitted, the natural sciences become prime sources
of knowledge
of man, not only in respect to those material properties shared with the nonhuman world, but also in respect to the uniquely
human qualities of mind and spirit.
He who thinks that the world, without any such unity
of significance as constitutes an experience, would still have been or might be a real world, and who deduces this from the fact — which spiritualism accepts — that the world without a particular
human personality, Mr. X is perfectly possible, must also be one who thinks that if from «himself» those
qualities which make him Mr. X were to be subtracted, nothing
of the nature
of mind would remain — in short, he is one who does not believe that other
minds are members
of himself.
In the face
of the marvel
of what can be called the immensely small world
of the atom, and the immensely great world
of the cosmos, the
human mind feels itself completely surpassed in its possibilities
of creation and even
of imagination, and understands that a work
of such
quality and
of such proportions demands a Creator whose wisdom is beyond all measure, and whose power is infinite.
The universality
of the
human regard for those higher
qualities which the Hebrew gathered up in the concept
of righteousness found rational explanation best in a cosmic origin which some modern thinkers describe as a Process; but, for the Hebrew
mind, that Process was personal.
In C. Lloyd Morgan's terminology, Whitehead seems to hold that
human mind and self - consciousness are «resultants»; novel reorganizations
of potentialities and principles present from the beginning and common to all; whereas for Morgan himself, by contrast,
mind represented an emergent
quality, wholly new, different and inexplicable in terms
of what had come before.
When the
human mind is compromised — by disease or unexplained disorders —
quality of life suffers.
If the Common Core is taught in a context
of core values and
quality character education, it can inspire hearts and
minds, transform
human relationships, promote both excellence and ethics, and move the work
of the world forward.
- Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author
of The Jane Austen Book Club «There is a tenderness in this moving, deeply descriptive novel that brings all those frequently hidden
qualities of compassion, purity
of mind, and, yes, love — the things we used to call the
human spirit — into the foreground
of our feeling as readers.
In my work with animals I read a lot
of different descriptions for this type
of connection, and I sum it up this way, «a
quality human - animal bond is a selfless relationship that is mutually beneficial, in body,
mind and soul, to the
human and to the animal.»
«The function
of the artist is to create or present something that is a statement
of the finest
qualities conceivable in the
human mind and emotions.»
His large, usually dark canvases call to
mind the natural world and the primordial American landscape, simultaneously wonderful and terrifying and their torn, gestural
quality speaks to the classic Abstract Expressionist themes
of struggle and the
human condition,
of man against the void.
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human society the opportunity for a life
of happiness, good health, peace
of mind and all good
qualities through God consciousness.