Sentences with phrase «seeking human perfection»

Yes, there were other problems, bureaucrats in Brussels, seeking human perfection though regulation, helped to strangulate a previously more competitive Eurozone economy.

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And once human will is accorded primacy in reaching that perfection — once obtension is sufficient to realize the First Good — the responsible self requires no memory at all beyond its recognition of the imperative to seek the content of correct conduct (the Second Good).

The individual in a human society in process of collective organization has not the right to remain inactive, that is to say, not to seek to develop himself to his fullest extent: because upon his individual perfection depends the perfection of all his fellows.

The Reformers» alternative conception of the way of love in the world begins with the insight that the tendency of man is to seek self - justification and to think of ethical perfection as an achievement of human freedom.

We are to seek a perfection that lies beyond the imperfections of human systems of law and order.

The question remains, D'Arcy points out, «whether a human being imitates God by seeking itself and its own perfection or by going outside itself to want only God».35 There is a mystery here in the self - realizing love called Eros and the self - giving love called Agape.

Through explorations of human / machine dichotomy, ideas of utopia embodied in architecture, and the perceptual and cognitive boundaries of consciousness, Lee's works seek to delineate the limits of the human body and mind, and the fallibility of the quest for perfection.

Maintaining that the infinite vastness of the horizon sparks an awareness of perfection in the human mind that, although unseen and immaterial, is ultimately the essential and pervasive character of reality, she sought to recreate this same contemplative stillness of Nature in her canvases.