Sentences with phrase «views about human nature»

Existential therapists have their own unique views about human nature, mental dysfunction, wellness, and therapeutic techniques.

The Victorian sexual ethos relies on a misunderstanding of biblical views about human nature.

But I have a view about human nature, most people once you start to show them the right way out I think most people move.

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In fact, theologians who write about ecological concerns are united in their opinion that a holistic view of reality is basic to a responsible relation between humans and nature.

As for me regarding the human condition, I'd refer to my comments above about the christocentric view of human nature).

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

It is a view that takes authority to be a positive good rather than a necessary evil alone and in so doing preserves a truth about human nature and society that stands in danger of loss.

In speaking about his views of eternity on Wednesday, answering a question from a caller based in Atlanta, Romney was echoing Mormon beliefs about the eternal nature of human existence.

In the dominant world view the inclusion of human beings in nature meant that all these ideas about God acting in the hearts and minds of believers became irrelevant.

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

Unlike Mill, for whom this is an empirical claim about human nature, however, Hartshorne views it as an implication of a Whiteheadian metaphysical system which is held to be valid for all possible states of the universe.5 In this system, experiences (or «feelings») are the primitive constituents of all reality.

«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects of nitrite and nitrate, our data support the view that humans may require these dietary components from birth — from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the study's lead author and an associate professor of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU).

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

It is clear from Price's work that a great diversity of views about human origins can support the willful and humble obedience to nature's laws that allow the human being to thrive.

For my money, The Ides Of March — with its dark view of human nature and satisfyingly twisty plot — is one of the most entertaining films ever made about the political process.

There is, as Yuval Levin noted in his remarks on the encyclical, something paradoxical about the union of the left, which tends to see itself as the party of science, and the environmental movement, since the latter's holistic view of nature is at odds with modern science's ethic of human power over nature.