Sentences with phrase «view of human nature»

Indeed, this entirely realistic view of human nature is further shown in the identification of life with blood.

We are a values - driven consultancy with a positive view of human nature and capabilities.

Yet to accept this is to give the lie to a widely accepted view of human nature that most people accept implicitly, if not explicitly.

That is to say, it is not grounded in a total view of human nature.

They add up to a new view of human nature and a new vision of how people succeed.

In this discussion I explain the central paradox of human inconsistency and why an unconventional view of human nature is more accurate.

For instance, does it assume an optimistic or pessimistic view of human nature?

A «comprehensive approach [to character education] is based on a somewhat dim view of human nature,» acknowledges William Kilpatrick (1992, p. 96).

About Heidegger's view of human nature in particular, Cassirer says the following:

He accepts that Rahner was well - motivated by pastoral concerns but ultimately condemns the theory of «anonymous Christianity», and the extremely optimistic view of human nature on which it is founded, as fundamentally unscriptural.

Although their language would sound quaint today, a dualistic view of human nature torn by the lure of the flesh against the spirit has simply gone underground.

Rabbi Kaplan would write in 1970: «Emancipation from the authority of that text makes possible the substitution of a more constructive view of human nature as capable of improvement.»

But humanising The Prince and its cynical view of human nature is, frankly, a bridge too far: an excuse is different to a justification.

The anthropologist Richard Wrangham is one of several scientists at Harvard who present a much darker view of human nature than Fry does.

«You get different views of human nature.

According to the biblical view of human nature, guilt and shame are related to the larger issue of alienation of the human spirit from God, self, and others.

Does maximum republicanism, for instance, rely on an implausibly rosy view of human nature and capabilities?

Locke promotes an optimistic view of human nature where the state of nature is conductive to natural rights, teaching mankind not to harm others and not to live in relationships of subordination.

As an Enlightenment idea, «academic freedom» is usually associated with a rationale that depends on a particular view of human nature.

He pointed out how, because of the dominant reductionist view of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual as «an object to be investigated, measured and experimented upon» rather than as an «irreducible subject».

The near identity of rationality and autonomy, and of autonomy and freedom, is the keystone of a distinctively Enlightenment view of human nature.

Schleiermacher, however, built a theory of the solidarity of humankind in sin upon an evolutionary view of human nature.

Furthermore, how do the loss of a transcendent horizon, a materialist view of human nature, and an exaggerated belief in progress facilitate the loss of political freedom?

Bonhoeffer argued that the attempts to preserve the church often reflected a too - high veneration of the state, a de facto support of traditional social values, and an unduly weak view of human nature.

He craves tranquility, silence, and a benign view of human nature.

In his article in December's issue, Robert P. George articulated well the eclipse of a hylomorphic view of human nature.

We have learned from the Enlightenment and its Marxist negative image some bad lessons: a self - righteous view of human nature, individual or collective, a good - evil dichotomy in our judgment on others and in our social action, a shallow sense of human community, and an exaggerated confidence in the power of human beings to manage and control their own destinies.

The Feast of Fools was an attempt to explore the possibilities of a fertile view of human nature advanced by such thinkers as Huizinga, Piper and Hugo Rahner.

This Neurophilosophical view of human nature, will be revised continuously as we get more and more insights into the human brain.

Republican arguments against higher taxes are premised in deeply faulty views of both human nature and economics.

Examples such as these provide a counterargument to the selfish view of human nature that has long dominated psychological research.

Your new take on evolutionary theory seems to echo an older view of human nature: more about competition, less about compassion.

Evolutionary psychologists, who are not known for their sunny view of human nature, suggest that we sometimes gain power by being nice.

«It's very easy to slip into a very simplistic view of human nature,» says Robert Kurzban, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, citing the classic Flintstones stereotype.

Very well - made and solidly acted, this nonetheless has such a grim and despairing view of human nature that it will make viewers feeling more miserable than entertained.

Maybe I'm naïve to hope that Shadow Fall will show a more nuanced view of human nature.

«These findings are almost too sweet for those of us who rail against the constrained view of human nature contained in the mainstream law - and - economics literature.

I don't have a jaundiced view of human nature.

Brooks argues that an incorrect view of human nature has led to unsuccessful strategies in economics and education.