Sentences with phrase «view of human possibilities»

Not exact matches

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

The orthodox view is that all possibilities are created by God, but that human beings have the responsibility to «acquire» actions out of the possibilities, thereby becoming accountable.

Nominalists share with Scotus the voluntarist understanding of divine and human will, the unboundedness of possibility, the view of creation as an order imposed by God's arbitrary will, and the rejection of the doctrine of analogy.

These assumptions, which have their origins in a theologically motivated rejection of a classical understanding of God and creation, lead by an easy path to the view that human beings fully realize themselves by producing concepts that give us mastery over limitless possibilities — first mastery over nature, then over ourselves.

He called his view «materialistic,» in so far as «it does not allow the possibility of any human thought without a brain and a movement in this brain.»

In arguing against the possibility of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so, by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some view as to the way things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that context.

From the human point of view, such unreceptiveness automatically cuts off the possibility that the Bible can be the Word of God to us.

Are those with such a limited view of the possibilities of human society really likely to be motivated to sustain a constant vigilance against injustice?

Focussing on the notion of prehension as the basis of a concept of «shared existence,» Cobb stresses the possibility» of an «ecological theology» to counter the Kantian overemphasis on the human point of view.8 A fuller discussion of Whitehead's ecological dimension is to be found in an article by John B. Bennet.9 Bennet suggests three possible sources of Whitehead's value to ecological thinking.

Reinhold claims that a tragic view of history is necessary to help the Christian negotiate the gap between the ethical ideal and the possibilities attainable by human collective action.

But, from the Bible's point of view, even more disquieting is the possibility of human freedom, symbolized by the tree of knowledge of good and bad.

In view of the increasing vulnerability of contemporary societies to a broad range of social risks, including the possibility of total human extinction, the human rights regime needs to incorporate a broader concept of global human security.

The mythological view of the world has gone, and with it went the possibility of speaking seriously of a Heilsgeschichte: a historical «drama of salvation,» in which God is said to have acted at a certain time in this world to change the state of human affairs.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

What is required is a view of human love and human interaction that is comprehensive, mature and realistic, one which recognizes our non-material, spiritual nature and the possibility of change in our behaviour.

On St. Thomas's view, freedom is in fact the great organizing principle of the moral life — and since the very possibility of a moral life (the capacity to think and choose) is what distinguishes the human person from the rest of the natural world, freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Creed has designed the base of his sculpture as a social space, a stepped platform on which visitors may gather to enjoy the view — and perhaps debate the limits and possibilities of human understanding.

Questioning the possibilities of the human brain to perceive different types of information, Oppermann's work puts on probe those who are viewing her paintings.

My personal view is that (too) many skeptics adopted Beck's graph, simply because that, if real, would invalidate any human cause of GW, without checking the facts first, or even thinking about the physical (im) possibility of 80 ppmv CO2 increase and especially decrease in less than 7 years...

Glass, then, is kind of a legal Rorschach test: where you stand on his admissibility likely depends on your view of the possibility of human redemption, rehabilitation and the role of the lawyer in society.