Sentences with phrase «specifically human terms»

But insofar as prehension, the mechanism of concretion developed in Science and the Modern World (and later in Process and Reality), can be interpreted in specifically human terms, this aesthetic principle is especially crucial to the increase of value in human existence, providing persons adjust themselves to it.

Not exact matches

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the affairs of human life, but specifically in terms of what God has effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of human beings.

It has been proven very solidly that humans» short term memory can't even remember what color a person's shirt is 15 minutes later unless instructed specifically to do so.

The difference between I - it and I - Thou is not carried over from the German to the English in translation, but the difference is important in indicating the two stages of Buber's insight into man — first, that he is to be understood, in general, in terms of his relationships rather than taken in himself; second, that he is to be understood specifically in terms of that direct, mutual relation that makes him human.

Because virtue ethicists tend to trace their lineage back to Aristotle, when they discuss the connection between ethics and metaphysics they also tend to do so in Aristotelian terms, specifically in terms of a natural teleology that tries to determine which functional properties are essential for a full human life.

The more we expand and generalize the words we apply to specifically human relationships — speaking of «pet parents,» or referring to our pets as our children or family members — the more we distort the ideas that undergird these terms, and the more we profane the real relationships those terms are supposed to cover.

If the constitutive assertion of this witness, however expressed or implied, is specifically christological, in that it is the assertion, in some terms or other, of the decisive significance of Jesus for human existence, the metaphysical implications of this assertion are specifically theological in that they all either are or clearly imply assertions about the strictly ultimate reality that in theistic religious traditions is termed «God.»

In a stricter sense of the term, however, history is the chronicle of specifically human events that have taken place.

And although real world human medical trials are still needed, the use of probiotic bifidobacteria, specifically, appears especially promising as a long term option for patients with celiac disease.

More specifically, the term refers to regional laws that ban or regulate certain breeds of dog in the hopes of reducing attacks on humans.

In an exploration of the term «brand identity,» Murphy used 100 laser - cut images of graphic logos to create a human face — more specifically, the face of his daughter, Iris Isadora.

Obviously, my method (likewise yours) ignores other long term forcings - specifically CFC emissions that stopped in late 80s + human aerosols seems to be important players here - inclusion of other forcings may change the result.

Specifically, there's a case for avoiding continued dependence on fossil fuels that persuades me regardless of what scientists think they know about the long - term human impact on our climate.

The term sometimes is used to refer specifically to climate change caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.