Sentences with phrase «tendencies of human nature»

Doing this is such an ever - present tendency of human nature that Jesus felt impelled to say in the Sermon on the Mount, «Judge not, that you be not judged.

The tendency of human nature, intensified by our commercial activity, is to make the life a whirlpool — a great maelstrom which draws everything into itself.

Although the tendency of human nature is to think that what comes in the future is far better than what was in the past, the truth of the matter is that there are some things that are truly foundational - and important.

Not exact matches

Cognitive bias are misleading quirks of thought — mental tendencies that are part of human nature.

Once they do mount, another quirk of human nature comes into play — one that Baruch alluded to: the tendency for stubbornness to give way to panic, leading investors to dump their holdings at a bottom.

Its human nature to always be on the lookout for something newer and better, and unfortunately we have a tendency to associate the two together in our thinking that technology can provide the perfect answer to all of life's problems.

Nevertheless, because the tendencies normally direct the capacities in certain directions, when we speak about human nature we are pointing to a certain grain in the expressed features, abilities, tendencies, and operations of persons.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

For, as Caldecott highlights, the Catholic tendency, from Thomas Aquinas through to the contemporary Catechism (one might also add St Augustine and the 14th - century papal Encyclical Benedictus Deus) has been to emphasise that the human soul is not physical, but rather spiritual, in the image of God's divine nature, and directly created at conception.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

And, if we know anything about human nature, we know we have a desire for certainty, a fear of being wrong, a tendency to difine ourselves by our beliefs and to identify those like - minded, the «us» of the them / us divide.

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

This has produced a rather dreary and pessimistic picture of human nature and the tendency to consider its higher values and achievements as derived only from the lower drives, through processes of reaction formation, transformation, and sublimation.

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

It often involved the tendency to deal with human history as though it were an aspect of nature.

However, he denies the fairness and accuracy of this allegation, contending that his method is the only way philosophy can escape both radical skepticism about ultimate reality and an unwarranted tendency to assume that all of nature resembles human experience.

11 In God's covenant with Moses and, through Moses, with the people of the exodus, the being of God acquired «an explicitly personal character» 12 that countered anthropomorphizing tendencies «primarily through the experience of the infinite superiority of the divine nature to all merely human attributes and capacities — an experience which marks every encounter with the divine in the Old Testament.»

He preened himself as an authority in the humanities as well as in the clinic, a scientist whose understanding of sex, and of our tendencies to deny and repress its power, gave him the key to understanding human nature and made him a bearer of the cold light of fact to an ignorant and myth «ridden civilization.

There has, instead, been a tendency to see nature as none other than the stage on which the drama of human life is performed.

[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.

I think in ages past the family bed and shared care of a small village setting would have naturally gone that way, but the last century really did a lot to undo the human nature tendencies!

This kind of interdisciplinary engagement may also have the side benefit of heightening the theorist's reflective awareness of the underlying sociological assumptions — about power, human nature, the main tendencies of social life and so on — that s / he inevitably makes in constructing a political vision of how the world ought to be.

Gretchen Rubin is one of today's most influential and thought - provoking observers of happiness and human nature and the author of The Four Tendencies.

Despite the specific nature of the character Stiller plays, «Brad's Status» finds a universality in the uncomfortable truths it explores: the human tendency to take stock, especially around middle age, and to compare our lives against both our friends» achievements and our youthful visions of our future selves.

He's found it worthwhile to wonder that the broadest strokes of Noble Savage Syndrome reflect a natural human tendency to revert to the natural to valorize cultures (objects) that are ambiguous by their nature.

We are ruining America, notes dour New York Times columnist David Brooks, suddenly and considerably alarmed by a standard feature of American life, if not human nature — the tendency of the privileged and powerful to guard jealously every advantage they have been handed or earned.

My classes, actually, contain a large number of ELL and SPED students, because of the non-traditional nature of Music and Human Rights, and the tendency of kids of all levels to be interested and talented in those areas.

I think being aware of the potential pitfalls of human nature and the various biases that we are prone to is a good antidote to our flawed behavioral tendencies, but it doesn't guarantee success.

Due to their tendency to form an immediate rapport with humans, they are not considered a great guard dog, but their even temper and amiable good nature makes most of them good family dogs.

Office Plants illustrates the irony of the human tendency to replicate nature in artificial forms in order to maintain a connection to the environment.

From the pristine simplicity of nature, Greene imagines an alluring reality tarnished by human tendencies.

I try to find the intersection of the imperceptible forces within nature and the human tendency to try to control it.

For example: Marsicek et al «Reconciling divergent trends and millennial variations in Holocene temperatures» Nature 554:92 - 96 2018 So nothing really amiss on the science side — in terms of our human emotions and tendency to personalize and argue — that's another matter altogether.

Other factors also contribute, such as: human nature; norms about gender, parenting roles, the distribution of labour in the home and the privileged insularity of the family unit; the impact of these norms on policy - and decision - makers; the stubborn persistence of women's inequality; and, the lingering tendency to treat women and children as property.

Although it is human nature to resist change, strong families have a tendency to accept change and members understand the ever - present concept of change.