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.