Sentences with phrase «satisfying modern man»

Not exact matches

One understanding of human nature common to the modern era sees man as standing both above and outside nature (after Descartes, as a sort disembodied rational being), and nature itself as raw material — sometimes more pliable, sometimes less — for furthering human ambition (an instrumentalist post — Francis Bacon view of nature as a reality not simply to be understood but to be «conquered» and used to satisfy human desires).

Nor is he satisfied to set the arts, as an inspirational resource, over against daily life, and to say that religion must use the sources of the Spirit — meaning Beauty, Poetry and Imagination — over against the prosaic and utilitarian world in which modern men live.

Modern man's passion for relevance at all costs turns this around so that it says «the chief end of God is to satisfy man and make himself useful forever.

While viewers searching for something more modern and exciting might find the more esoteric parts of the film to be plodding, most will leave Lincoln satisfied by the film, and inspired by its lessons: that one man's determination can change the course of history, that politics is not just a space for the power hungry, and that this country may have its problems, but it is men like Lincoln that established America as a home for freedom and change.

«Tower Heist» is a modern comic fable about working stiffs (the serving class of a cushy NYC high - rise) stung by Wall Street excesses (the penthouse billionaire, the lost pension fund) trying to stick it to «the man» in some soul - satisfying ways.