Emerson reclaimed an idealistic philosophy from this dead end of 18th-century rationalism by once again asserting the human ability to transcend the materialistic world of sense experience and facts and become conscious of the all-pervading spirit of the universe and the potentialities of human freedom.
Pregnant Franny, whose child can assert the human race's survival; the forgiving and ailing Glen; deaf-mute Nick; mentally challenged Tom Cullen, who will save Stu Redman Larry Underwoodd, who starts the novel dreaming of Flagg, and is filled with darkness, but somehow finds the light.
In the 1840s, Lincoln subscribed to the Doctrine of Necessity, a belief that asserted the human mind was controlled by some higher power.
Barash then asserts the "uniquely human potential to resist our own genes," and makes the further claim that it's exactly this ability that constitutes our humanity, thus making "rebellion" practically a duty.
This asserts the right of human beings in ways that are now entrenched in the theory and (most of the time) the practice of liberal democracy.
Richard Powers compares poorly with these writers: his fictional work constantly asserts the importance of the human while never quite succeeding in enacting it.
Associates gave supplementary "Mind Lectures" on biblical passages as interpreted by Mr. Park, who asserts that the human heart is lodged with "filth and evil".
This is the philosophical tenet of "Dualism," which asserts that the human mind is essentially immaterial and disembodied.
And no doubt the diary represented, whether consciously or not, an almost moral act of defiance and liberation, allowing him to assert the simple human truth of who he was -- to God, to himself and to anyone else who cared to pry.
"In ending terrorism in 2009, we asserted the greatest human right: the right to live".
