Sentences with phrase «satisfy human appetites»
The much better looking Grudem, a professor at Phoenix Seminary and past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, had similarly jarred me two years before when, speaking at a fundraising dinner ostensibly focused on the stewardship of creation, he smilingly advocated the extinction of a species to satisfy human appetites.
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In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.
Long ago Plato suggested that we consider it as divided into three parts — the appetitive, spirited, and rational — that correspond to the three basic kinds of human desires: the desire to satisfy physical appetites, the desire for recognition, and the desire for truth.
... a valid service is performed in satisfying the eternal human appetite for gloom and doom (and no virgins were sacrificed), distracting people from the reality of life, which is that we all are doomed, while the universe, the earth and all that environmentalists hold dear will go remorselessly on and on without us.
I encourage you to read the entire note, given that the issues explored by DeLisi are relevant around the world, and given the reality that a mix of technologies and techniques is going to be required in most places to satisfy growing human populations and appetites without consuming ever more land needed either for wildlife or human settlements.
Well, yes, they are out of control, not caring other than superficially about themselves, satisfying their base appetites, stuffing their faces with food, their ears with junk music, their eyes with disgusting images and their brains with every kind of psychic sewage, they are lucky if they exhibit the lowest threshold of societal engagement or care for their fellow humans.
It denies curiosity, one of the great human appetites that news both satisfies and feeds.