Sentences with phrase «universal human desires»

The subjects and materials he uses express his interest in history, music, and universal human desires.

We don't just work to protect the environment — we tap into the universal human desire for self - determination, and work to change how decisions are made in B.C. by answering questions like: Who gets to decide?

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

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True, it desires that most legitimate civilizations should be preserved, yet it approves of the development of «a more universal form of human culture... one which will promote and express the unity of the human race» (art. 54) and favours a powerful international organization which, despite the United Nations, does not yet exist (art. 84).

Thomas Joseph White recently explained («Catholicism in an Age of Discontent,» October 2016), de Lubac sought to show how the collectivist ideologies of his time, especially communism, reflected a legitimate desire for universal human community — a desire, however, that is only fulfilled in Christ.

A higher state of consciousness diffused through the ultra-technified, ultra-socialized, ultra-cerebralized layers of the human mass, but without the emergence (neither necessary nor conceivable) at any point in the system of a universal, defined and autonomous Center of Reflection: this, by the first hypothesis, is all we are entitled to look for or desire as the eventual highest end of hominization.

Short term interests and desires usually conflict with universal human values, while long term interests / desires tend to converge.

The human person has a natural desire for the universal that, even if repressed by today's skepticism, aches for fulfillment.

One thrust in the dynamics of the will to relate is the desire to satisfy such universal human hungers as the hunger for affection, recognition, caring, esteem, dependency, and sexual satisfaction.

The desire for life is just plain human and absolutely universal.

Rattner has said she «wanted to articulate something more universal, more indicative... of the human experience - our struggle to hang on to life, our desire to live, even in the most awful circumstances.»

The desire to collect objects and images of personal significance, and to make connections between them, is a nearly universal human experience.

Perfect locates significance in the universal desire to animate the inanimate and to project human characteristics onto nature — the anthropic principle.

The sexual desire of one human being for another is probably the most basic, universal and consistent instinct of our society.

Using the market as both a geographic and ideological center, Heading Southwest [About Practice # 2] aims to shed light on the macro meaning of the Essex Market's inner and parallel social functions, as a metaphor of a universal need: the human desire to discover and find the irrationality within reality, the extraordinary within ordinary and the mythology within facts, in turn revealing a fragile desire to fictionalize reality by threading together a narrative that feels more impressive than the real.

What Jaffa is trying to understand is universal to all human beings, yet the «nothing - seem - to - last» attitude and «unlimited desire» is particularly apparent in Hong Kong.

Combining minimalism and performance, Walt Disney and George W. Bush, McCarthy has used the human body, with all its desires and taboos, to create a unique, irreverent, and satirical language that combines Pop Art with fairy tales, the nightmares of the daily news with universal archetypes.

LOVE Long affirms that art is a universal language built upon the fundamental human desire to express and communicate.

But perhaps the most universal hallmark of human progress is the desire to minimize infliction of suffering.

Anthropologists have been exploring the the desire to belong as a universal human trait for decades before social media existed.