Sentences with phrase «sphere of human understanding»
Science does not try to explain anything «before existence,» because it's considered a tautology: an unanswerable question within the sphere of human understanding.
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The overarching interpretive rubric within which to understand the spheres of human life — and, for us here, in particular the family — is Augustine's statement, in Book I of The City of God, that the servants of God «have no reason to regret even this life of time, for in it they are schooled for eternity.»
These definitions can not bind a being that exists above the plane of human understanding — its like the circle in Flatland trying to understand a sphere.
Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and its insistence on the human separation from and opposition to nature — created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the human sphere of autonomous activity in the service of the fulfillment of the self.
On the contrary, it was rooted in his understanding that politics is not the most important sphere of human activity.