Sentences with phrase «thinking about human existence»

Hence, older ways of thinking about human existence are in need of a very thorough reconception.

And when he was thinking about human existence itself, he was intent upon saying that a whole human person was compounded of body as well as of soul; in the end, he said, the two would be reunited after the separation which death had brought about.

Not exact matches

God has given us much evidence of His existence: how about the intricacies of how the human body works - can you really believe that happened without a master plan; what about the beauty of nature - can we really think that that just happened; what about the testimony of millions throughout the ages including Scientists attempting to disprove God, that point to things beyond their comprehension or doing.

In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.

As soon as one begins to think about the basic issues of human existence, one is faced with the question of where to turn to find a trustworthy guide.

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

I don't know about you, but I would believe the people who study the human mind, thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists), over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the existence of, and which has no consistent pattern of action with which to use as evidence for verification.

But for our present purpose, it is enough to say that when we are thinking about the last things, our thought must include much more than human existence and human personality in its body - mind totality, even in its social relationships.

Whatever we perceive to be the truth about God, I think there is some things we all can agree on, believers and anyone who doesn't believe in the existence of God and that is that it is self evident that all are born equal and with dignity and it's best if everyone relate to each other as part of the human family.

But there is also a third option — one that appreciates the primacy of faith in the order of human thought, recognizes the role played by tradition and authority in all forms of inquiry, and understands that the work of the university is ultimately dependent upon several démodé beliefs about the dignity of mankind and the existence of a Creator.

On an ontological level, process thought suggests that this experience of human existence as relational is not an exception to all other forms of existence, but is an exemplification of what existence is about.

I had never thought about reducing waste before, just assumed it was an inevitable product of human existence.

Ultimately, I think Phantom Thread is about control, about how we humans are very good at turning even the very basic needs of existence — food and shelter and clothing and love — into opportunities to jockey for position, show off our brilliance, and exert our will on the universe.

But I think truths about society and human existence can be approached in different ways.

I am not a subscriber to the «great Man'theory of history, I favour the idea that the pressures of human desire, experience and history culminate occasionally in one individual whose socio - historical importance is inevitably (as humans) defined through the base circumstances of their physical and temporal existence (i.e. the thing we think first about Einstein is the hair and the tongue, right?).

Since a commenter mentioned the medieval vineyards in England, I've been engaged on a quixotic quest to discover the truth about the oft - cited, but seldom thought through, claim that the existence of said vineyards a thousand years ago implies that a «Medieval Warm Period «was obviously warmer than the current climate (and by implication that human - caused global warming is not occuring).

Debates about the existence and start date of the Anthropocene are occurring alongside a revolution in thinking about humans as uniquely social and technological beings.