Sentences with phrase «something of the human condition»

For Kierkegaard, humor is an important avenue for human growth, precisely because it is able to communicate something of the human condition that can not be communicated adequately in other ways.

Not exact matches

Indeed, these mega-rich buyers don't necessarily view these pieces as evocative works of art that stir emotions and say something essential about the human condition.

In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to confront the reality that sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the human condition, it's that it is not something that should make us «feel better.»

«Time» is something humans created to quantifying the passing of events, because we need it to understand the world around us (or at least most of us do; there are people with strange mental conditions that are fully functioning but have no concept of time).

Not only that, but because the «rule of law» is itself part of the common good — i.e., it is one of those «conditions» that is conducive to human flourishing — it is part of lawmakers» vocation, and something they are obligated to do, to make law in accord with the rules - laid - down.»

If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.

The Church has always held that we are talking of something inherited: «In each act of generation human nature is communicated in a condition deprived of grace.»

This «something» is precisely human nature: this nature is itself the measure of culture and the condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner of any of his cultures, but asserts his personal dignity by living in accordance with the profound truth of his being.

It's not simply that we were in the loins of our ancestors, that we have their DNA or something like that, but rather, a perennial feature of the human condition is that we are in bondage to one pharaoh, one lord or another, and we stand in need of liberation.

Something has happened in Western culture over the last three centuries, altering the conditions of human experience.

If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.

One of its key tenets is that the modern era reveals something new about the human condition that requires the Church and doctrine to change in fundamental ways.

I am only asking if, amid all the diverse and conflicting processes and meaningless events that occur in history, there is some one process that, when required conditions are present, progressively creates something of supreme importance for human beings?

For if it be true that the tide of evolutionary totalization sweeping us along requires, for its viability, not only that we must progress towards some form of irreversible unity, but also that this progress must be in the personal sphere, is not this a positive reason for believing that sooner or later something must happen in the world whereby certain basic conditions of the human phenomenon will undergo modification?

So does the hope of the coming of the Kingdom, not as something earned by man's good works nor yet as a state in which God can be indifferent to human effort, but rather as a consummation in which the condition of the covenant would be fully met.

[2] This condition has been characterized in many ways, ranging from something as insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without collective guilt, referred to as a «sin nature», to something as drastic as total depravity or automatic guilt of all humans through collective guilt.

She connected with the family within the story, indentifying so much that she caught the truth of the human condition and was confronted with death, something we often avoid or deny in our culture.

If basic spiritual, moral, and religious matters are not included in the primary understanding of why people do what they do, why civilizations follow the courses they follow, and why cultures get shaped the way they do get shaped, then something essential about the human condition is falsified.

The ability to gaze inward may be an integral part of the human condition, but so is our inability to be alone, he says: «Because we're so attuned to be alert to danger, there is something about the human mind that finds it hard to turn in on itself.»

The converted training room had become something akin to NASA's Mission Control, the conditions at the bottom of the Gulf as hostile to humans and human efforts as the vacuum of space.

Even when you think you've considered every condition that a piece of software will encounter, the rebellious nature of reality (including the foibles of human users) will come up with something to violate your assumptions.

Love is a really basic part of the human condition that we all experience in one way or another, and maybe because it's vulnerable and something we can all relate to, we like to be cynical about it.

Just about everyone who grew up in the past sixty years reading and loving books has come across J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and discovered something of themselves within its pages; it's one of those cultural beacons that somehow represents the human condition.

«There's something so universal about the human condition of growing up with siblings and parents, with how we maneuver through the world over time — you can't not relate to it on some level, which means the response to this film has been fun and heartfelt and kind of beautiful,» Richard Linklater said of «Boyhood's» 12 year journey.

A kind of anti-Nicholas Sparks movie, in which good intentions unintentionally expose cracks in a union, Marc Forster's superficially trippy Thailand - set movie — peppered as it is with amorphous waves of shapes and colors meant to evoke the point of view of the sight - impaired — never plays like something that had to be made about the human condition.

It's Spider, but it's at once more and less expressionistic than David Cronenberg's film — and while the long, quiet, empty reaches of living in the giant abandoned warehouse of a mind in flux is a constant melancholy the two films share, there is something in Stroszek, crystallized in the haunting image of a premature baby pawing at its bedding, that does more to traumatize the human condition.

That Little Something, the 18th collection from U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, is a volume of brief, informal poems that feel effortlessly composed and poignantly chronicle the loneliness of the human condition.

Like all pets, hamsters are particularly susceptible to a variety of health conditions if they accidentally ingest something that is toxic to them; although this «something» is perfectly safe, palatable, and yummy to us humans.

Something about a woman's body, she explained, captures «the significance of the human condition, the emotion of the human body — it represents so many things.»

Her use of traditional forms — weaving, knitting, sewing and stitching — may at first seem crafty, but there's always something more sinister, more undecided in her work which suggests other ideas about the human condition that go beyond our attraction to nature.

These stories and experiences that make up your background, also form part of the human condition, something that is at once both personal and universal.

Irresolute himself, he sense that is part of the human condition, something to be encompassed in his work, and even treasured.

His peak was reached by 1980, and by then he had created a magisterial body of work, sensuous, always questing and probing, always saying something however obliquely about the human condition, the business of being alive, all set out in an exemplary exhibition two years ago at the Tate Gallery, memorably hung by Nicholas Serota and David Sylvester, one of de Kooning's earliest and best champions in Europe.

It might be the redemptive power of art, or maybe just the human condition, but in a world where displacement is a fact of life, the Jonas Mekas story has something to say to everyone.

In a circa 1989 interview with Jim Johnson, an art historian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colescott said he made the transition and dedicated himself to working with the figure and his imagination, «trying to say something about the human condition.»

«The recent paintings of Jorge Tacla (b. 1958), however, are made of oil paint and cold wax on canvas, so the relative shadow in which they're displayed seems to have something to do with their subject: the dark side of the human condition.

It almost seems to be a product of the human condition — we are always looking for something exceptional in recent events and, if you look hard enough, you can find it.

historical baseline, whilst I am talking about a 2C rise above our current / the most recently calculated (2017) GAST which unarguably will take us into temperatures, weather and climate conditions that humans have never before experienced... to the best of my knowledge (though I seem to remember a line in one version of the bible that says something like»..

Matt Ridley's broad point is that change is not something to be feared, it is a condition of our existence and a driver for humans to evolve, grow, and become ever more successful.

Suffering the Science: Climate change, people and poverty goes into greater detail, but in short the report says that hunger, disaster and disease will be the «new normal»: At 5 °C Rise Billions Could Die Even at 2 °C temperature increases, some 660 million people could be forced into devastating conditions the report says; and if we continue to follow a business - as - usual trajectory and allow something on the order of 5 °C temperature rise, human population levels could be reduced to just one billion people by the end of the century.