Sentences with phrase «reflection of human understanding»

God is found in the self - reflection of human understanding.

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It's nice to put a face to the name and see who the human on the other side of the phone or computer screen actually is — just make sure that your employees understand that by using their personal accounts to share company content and interact professionally, they need to remember that everything they post is a reflection on the company.

Kierkegaard's Reflections on Violence We turn now to a consideration of the way in which Kierkegaard's thought can help us to understand the basic motives which lead human beings toward violence.

Rather than ground their discussion in biblical reflection and careful observation of play itself, Christians have most often been content to allow Western culture to shape their understanding of the human at play.

«We must be prepared to live with the vision contained in the [Rawls»] original position, mutual disinterest and all,» he writes, «prepared to live with it in the sense of accepting its description as an accurate reflection of human moral circumstance, consistent with our understanding of ourselves.»

Gaudium et Spes, as the constitution is normally referred to, based many of its reflections upon the following insight: «The human race is passing from a rather static concept of the order of things to a more dynamic, evolutionary one» (n. 5) Its authors, as well as Ronald Knox 20 years earlier and to some degree Rene Descartes 350 years earlier, recognised that such an understanding was invited by the method of the new sciences.

Thus one of the principal tasks set for human reflection right from the start is so to understand the constant structure of all our experience that this original assurance can be understood to make sense.

Because, it is claimed, evaluation presupposes valuation as a condition of its possibility, any merely «disinterested» or «value - free» understanding of human reflection is of necessity excluded.20 Any consideration of the evidence of experience could only in the nature of the case ever illustrate, but logically could not falsify what must always necessarily be the case, even if such a consideration could well force a limited reconstrual of the hermeneutical analysis always itself presupposed in the strictly conceptual presuppositional analysis which uncovers the necessity of such elemental valuing.21

Yet such love has its reflections in our human experience at the point where men offer loyal understanding and care to one another in the midst of human evil.

Of course, reflection had to be informed by understanding and here all the instruments of human social sciences had to be recognizeOf course, reflection had to be informed by understanding and here all the instruments of human social sciences had to be recognizeof human social sciences had to be recognized.

based on a fundamental presupposition that there is a metaphysical - moral realm that is real, transcendent to the empirical world, and simultaneously sufficiently present to human reflection and experience that it can be taken as the decisive point of reference for the understanding and guidance of empirical life and historical existence.

God, who created this infinite universe, and all that's in it being reflection of His infinite attributes, with even the smallest things so detailed in their design, that it would be total absurdity to think they have gotten that way by evolving themselves... this Creator would have never created us, human beings, giving us such abilities that we posses, without giving us a way to understand Him, His nature and His character and to KNOW Him, as we are known of Him.

But insofar as there is real discontinuity, insofar as the apprehension of the holy is direct and not mediated by the community, or insofar as the understanding of the human situation is the result of radically independent reflection, we have to do with a prophet, a seer, or a philosopher, rather than with a theologian.

If revelation has sought to teach us of the mysteries of the Trinity transcending human reason, we must remember that its reflection began in the effort to understand just how God and the person of Jesus are to be related, and must make allowance for the partial or total eclipse of specific revelational content by the overlay of philosophical speculation.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

These are the accumulated reflections from a lifetime spent observing the extraordinary ways the human brain can misfire and misbehave: a man who believes his own leg does not belong to him, an autistic woman with a gift for understanding animals, and the man who mistook his wife for a hat — the case that inspired one of Sacks's most famous books.

This legibility points to our cultural tendency to transform human physicality into semiotic indicator, to understand bodies as reflections of character.

Finally, the warmth and depth of human understanding in this book can prompt reflection on personal values, professional satisfaction, and the possibility of peacemaking.

This recommendation is a reflection of the confusion organizations are having in understanding the differences between the two legal obligations, and how the duty to accommodate under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the AODA overlap and work simultaneously to protect employees with disabilities.

«The museum will change the world by enhancing people's understanding of human rights, promoting respect for others and encouraging reflection and dialogue,» it says.