Sentences with phrase «which human intellect»

The project studies the systems of knowledge and practices through which the human intellect will interact with the non-human.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

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The human intellect knows no depth to which it can not sink when it is under the stupidity ether of religion.

The discipline and penances of the body and soul are born out of an awareness of the evil which exists in the person's attachment to the fallen world through the senses, the intellect, and the spirit.They are meant to assist in the purification of these fallen attachments within the human person.

Scripture often speaks of truths which are above the human intellect, trying to describe realities that we can not humanly fathom.

Richardson is very skillful, however, in the use of selectionand evocative quotation, ensuring Newman is allowed to speak for himself in clarifying the process by which the human mind makes it possible to subscribe to an act of religious faith which is seen to be an act of the intellect.

But that is not to say that God does not have qualities commonly associated with human personality, such as awareness, intellect and most importantly in my opinion, love, which is connected to peace, and which I see as the heart of my own spirituality.

If it does not expect blind providence to save man through technical and material change, neither does it trust to a «free - ranging human intellect which contrives systems of absolute validity.»

To act and know that we are acting, to come into touch with reality and even to live it,... such is the function of human intelligence... From the ocean of life, in which we are immersed, we are continually drawing something, and we feel that our being, or at least the intellect that guides it, has been formed therein by a kind of local concentration.

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

I reply at once that where the character, as something distinguished from the intellect, is concerned, the causes of human diversity lie chiefly in our differing susceptibilities of emotional excitement, and in the different impulses and inhibitions which these bring in their train.

Revelation does not oppress the human intellect but illuminates it so as to be able to lay hold of transcendent Truth, which it naturally seeks but can only supernaturally attain.

In gentle characters, where devoutness is intense and the intellect feeble, we have an imaginative absorption in the love of God to the exclusion of all practical human interests, which, though innocent enough, is too one - sided to be admirable.

Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of hiscreation» (299).

«There is real and genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced of a truth, or of what he holds to be a truth, and when he at the same time recognizes the right of those who deny this truth to exist, and to contradict him, and to speak their own mind, not because they are free from truth but because they seek truth in their own way, and because he respects in them human nature and human dignity and those very resources and living springs of the intellect and of conscience which make them potentially capable of attaining the truth he loves, if someday they happen to see it.

But the latter abound so that we can afford to overlook the innumerable failures and self - deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything human failure is a matter of course), and we can also overlook the verbiage of a good deal of the mind - cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.

Another great resource I discovered that deals directly with the human condition is a website I came across recently which addresses the «dark side» of our human condition that is a result of a biological struggle between our instinctive brain and our intellect.

Documenting the extent of human stupidity may itself seem a fool's errand, which could explain why studies of human intellect have tended to focus on the high end of the intelligence spectrum.

Despite his intellect and wit though, R still attacks humans and feasts on them, specifically enjoying their brains which — when eaten — show the zombies memories of their victim's lives.

In the Harvard Business Review, Seidman writes about the shift to a human economy, focused on «hired hearts» and away from the knowledge economy, which held «sheer intellect» in highest regard.

BBC's «Horizon: Science Under Attack» could be viewed as a natural history programme in which clever humans are closely observed wilfully undermining their own intellects in the pursuit of greed (in this instance, the greed for power).

And the human intellect, without investigating the mulitiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: «This is the cause!»

Unlike other super heroes such as Superman, in which bullets bounce off of him, and Wolverine, whom can heal himself in seconds, Batman is a normal human who uses his intellect, martial arts skills, and vast wealth to keep Gotham safe.