Sentences with phrase «substance of human existence»

Love is the capacity to recognize the social substance of human existence, and to realize that the unique self is intimately related to all human creatures.

But he would deny it, and his ideas tend to be very incarnational, very much immersed in the substance of human existence, which he understands sociologically.

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The human mind can not comprehend non existence only the absence of existing substances or concepts.

They can not exist in the substance of bread since the bread is no longer present and they can not have their existence in the substance of Christ's body because the substance of a human body is not the proper substance for the accidents of bread: human bodies simply do not have the texture, colour, and so on, of bread.

This allows for a third use of «I,» to refer to a transcendental ego, a mental substance, or an atman, and it reflects a definite structuring of human existence.

Percy conveys the postmodern, post-Christian Tupperware partygoer's disappointment in the randomness of a world «lacking mystery and substance» as he employs a playful literary technique involving human «looniness» to explore the dilemma of man's uncertainty about the nature of existence.

Along with Kant's most conservative followers, Royce argued that the existence of mental categories shows that the material substance of the world must be ruled over by an Absolute Mind, which is fully as active and independent in its universal sphere as human minds are in theirs.

It is true that for some scholastics (including Suarez) the human soul, which is the human form and actualizing principle, can be a partial substance having an essential existence of its own (A 1, 12).

Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence, yet they form the least wealthy and the least powerful half of humanity.»