Sentence examples for by the human intellect from inspiring English sources

Developed by the Austrian theorist Rudolf Steiner, the philosophy is predicated on the existence of a spiritual world that can be accessed by the human intellect.

Collins' position is that a person is not expected to believe anything that is not comprehensible by the human intellect.

Indeed, not every res conceivable by the human intellect corresponds to a nature that can be actualized.

The other senses, according to which a thing is true because it is assimilated to or known by the human intellect, fall outside the scope of metaphysics and belong to logic.

But 'being' can be grasped in different ways, and Maritain distinguishes, for example, between sensible being ("the object first attained by the human intellect") and being as being (which is the object of metaphysics).

He teaches that the term "active intellect" refers either to God or to the angels' intellect or to the internal light of human beings, depending upon which intellectual objects are grasped by the human intellect (Summa de anima 116).

The reformers held that the human intellect had been corrupted by humanity's fall from grace, and that consequently the truth of Christianity could be apprehended only by faith.

Underlying this drama of error is Kleist's recurring theme, the fallibility of human perception and the inability of the human intellect by itself to apprehend truth.

In his commentary on the Sentences Albert augments this doctrine when he argues that this inner teacher strengthens the weakness of the human intellect, which by itself could not profit by external stimulation.

The first is through the faculty of sight and the second through the intellect.[34] For the eye, like the intellect, is illumined by means of light, thereby establishing a relationship between the eye, the object seen, and the space that separates them.[35] Just as the sun supplies light to the eye, the divine intellect illumines the human intellect during the act of intellection.

In principle, much of human knowledge is a priori and demonstrable by pure reasoning, but in practice, because the human intellect is finite, it is necessary to rely on experience to confirm these propositions when rational proof is beyond reach.