As we have noted, relations to self are far more complete than
relations to other humans.
But our relation to them is like
our relation to other human beings in that their well being contributes to ours.
Along with the relation to God,
the relation to other human beings is also excluded.
Not exact matches
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I use «public world»
to mean the world that is constituted by
human communication, i.e., the world shared by virtue of the
relation (s) of one or more
human individuals
to one or more
other human individuals.
Human action is discussed in terms of the relations of human individuals to other human individuals and to subhuman aggregates or societies of occas
Human action is discussed in terms of the
relations of
human individuals to other human individuals and to subhuman aggregates or societies of occas
human individuals
to other human individuals and to subhuman aggregates or societies of occas
human individuals and
to subhuman aggregates or societies of occasions.
For a Whiteheadian it is more natural and correct
to speak of the
relation as between
human beings and «
other» animals; for humanity is one species of animals.
That fact has nothing
to do with any valuation of
humans we might care
to make in
relation to other animals.
On the
other hand, the fact that God created
other creatures and saw that they were good quite independently of their
relation to human beings does not mean that each creature is of equal value with every
other.
It means making sense out of the
relations that
human beings and
other living things have toward the overall patterns of nature in ways that give us some sense of their proper
relations to one another,
to ourselves, and
to the whole» (Toulmin, 272).
I believe it is authentically Christian thinking
to single this out for special focus and
to imply it in the fresh application of the
relations between God and the world, among
human beings, and between
human beings and
other creatures.
Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality
to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not
to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become
human persons in
relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability
to trust and love
others, including God.»
Whereas Paul described his former life in Judaism as focused on
human relationships with his contemporaries and predecessors, his depiction of his new life is so centered on his
relation to God that he as yet has no relationship
to the
other apostles.
Because the nature of being
human is
to be in
relation,
to affect and
to be affected by
others, the unborn fetus can not be considered fully and properly a
human being.
It would be unnecessary
to labor this point except that sin is often conceived too narrowly either as something
to be settled with God only, or on the
other hand as merely calling for reform in
human relations.
On the
other hand, the very fact that they claim if not a monopoly of supreme values and motivating forces, yet a unique
relation to them, makes it impossible for the churches
to participate in promotion of social ends on a natural and equal
human basis.
To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.&raqu
To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our
human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them
to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.&raqu
to feel for each
other except as they have
relation to Him.&raqu
to Him.»
It is a drama that unfolds in several contexts at once: within the historical context of a «great cloud of witnesses», that is, in relationship
to all of those who speak (and have spoken) as «Christian preachers»; within the context of the speaker's own
human existence in
relation to other statements of faith collected as «Christian theology» within the time and space set aside for the performance of Christian liturgy.
It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued
to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man
to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry
to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula
to work the
human genome had
to stay the same no
other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior
to the flood and after the flood tried
to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual
relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able
to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully
human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted
to destroy them as they had the potential
to destroy the
human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?
There in the closed room, where one probed and treated the isolated psyche according
to the inclination of the self - encapsulated patient, the patient was referred
to ever - deeper levels of his inwardness as
to his proper world; here outside, in the immediacy of
human standing over against each
other, the encapsulation must and can be broken through, and a transformed, healed relationship must and can be opened
to the sick person in his
relations to otherness —
to the world of the
other which he can not remove into his soul.
Of course, an existentialist interpretation does not ignore this
other relation, but, as Bultmann's essay shows, the importance of the world in that interpretation is limited
to providing the stage for
human life.
Because this happening discloses what is most essential for our understanding of reality, it enjoys an importance in
human thought and behavior that sets it apart from all
other happenings, for it is precisely in
relation to the real that man finds fulfilment in his own being.
In addition
to these topics, participants will also consider how friendship — as a type of love — stands in
relation to other forms of love as well as how friendship can animate the best
human life or corrupt it.
Since
human beings are self - contained, their
relations to one another,
other than those of exchange, are ignored.
In fact, some would say that there is no
human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity
to realize this structure of
relations in our lives (
to a greater extent than can the
other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.
One's
relations to others also imply characteristic conceptions of
human nature, whether or not they are consciously formulated.
But he does not provide reason here for rejecting Ford's alternative reading that the concrete experience in question is that of the
human observer and that the events in nature are constituted by their internal
relations to all the
others.
The Corporeal Nature of Freedom and its Sphere Before speaking of the existence of freedom and in freedom something will have
to be said about the specifically
human creatureliness of freedom which will clarify the dialectical character of our
relation to our own and
other people's freedom.
If in the Old Testament, in Judaism, and in the New Testament, the unworldly takes the form of a future hope, of eschata — «last things» in the traditional sense — that is only one among
other possible conceptions of man's
relation to the unworldly, though no doubt it enshrines a genuine insight into
human existence, namely that from a
human perspective the eschaton can only be future.
Faith and its opposite Unbelief presuppose a universal spiritual dimension of
human selfhood in which the self sees itself as poised between the world and God i.e. at once as an integral part of the world of matter and the community of life governed by the mechanical and organic laws of development respectively on the one hand, and having a limited power
to transcend these laws through its spiritual
relation to the transcendent realm of God's purpose on the
other.
The interpretation of the present nature of
human beings in any situation, as «made in the image of God» and as «brothers for whom Christ died» should be as Persons - in -
Relation and destined
to become Persons - in - Loving - Community with each
other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite
human freedom reconciled
to God.
The calling
to create, recreate and develop cultures arises out of the involvement and transcendence of the
human self in
relation to nature and
to other human selves under God's purpose.
Third, as I already noted in the discussion of
human community, capitalism is based on a notion that individuals precede their
relations to others — that these
relations are external.
If both
human occasions of experience and subatomic events are best understood as syntheses of prehensions of
other events, then their
relation to one another is not as puzzling as has been supposed in the modern epoch.
The implications of the constitutive relationality affirmed in CiV are stunning: no
relations taken up by
human beings in the course of their lives are purely contractual, -LSB-...] freedom is an act of choice only as already embedded in an order of naturally given
relations (cf. 68)
to God, family,
others, and nature.
A third area of focus for continuing education that is relevant for the achievement of mental health is concerned with the meaning of religion in
relation to the meanings of the
other disciplines of
human thought.
If kinship
relations with
other human beings have not been important
to Marxist theory and practice, then it is unlikely that there is much emphasis on
human kinship
to other animals and
to the natural environment generally.
He does not try
to balance the suffering and gains of
human beings in
relation to one another or in
relation to other creatures.
If our
relations with
other human beings are thus trivialized, we can hardly expect any attention
to our
relations to the rest of the world.
Twice it refers
to (
human) persons; never
to Father, Son and Spirit in
relation to each
other.
Most of what is most important
to real
human beings, such as the quality of their
relations to others, is missed as much by the ISEW as by the GDP.
Human evil is in some sense a rejection of life, that is, a rejection of what makes us truly human beings.31 To be human is to search for the terms on which the self can be itself in relation to every other
Human evil is in some sense a rejection of life, that is, a rejection of what makes us truly
human beings.31 To be human is to search for the terms on which the self can be itself in relation to every other
human beings.31
To be human is to search for the terms on which the self can be itself in relation to every other sel
To be
human is to search for the terms on which the self can be itself in relation to every other
human is
to search for the terms on which the self can be itself in relation to every other sel
to search for the terms on which the self can be itself in
relation to every other sel
to every
other self.
In a word, a dynamic tendency toward communion with God, and with
other creatures in
relation to God, lies in the inmost depths of every
human being and not only Christians.
Humboldt states in his monograph on the dual that, though the study of language should be pursued for its own sake, it «resembles
other branches of learning in not having its ultimate purpose in itself but that it conforms
to the general purpose of interest in the
human mind
to help humanity
to realize its true nature and its
relation to everything visible and invisible around and above itself.»
Put in nontemporal terms, there is neither textual evidence nor sensible reason for thinking that a
human being would have knowledge of or a relationship
to the divine if he had no
relations with
other human beings.
But if, on the
other hand, we refuse
to regard
human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social
relations reduced
to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.
An act of
human perception (in the primary mode) provides an example of causation which can be generalized
to the
relations between
other actual entities.
In
human relations satisfaction is frequently derived by the denial of satisfaction
to others.
Ethics primarily involves the
relations of
human beings
to each
other.
As members of the Kingdom of God, we can (and should) call our
human governments
to a better and different way of living in
relation to others, but we should recognize that change takes decades — even centuries!