Sentence examples for constitutions of human from inspiring English sources

But clearly the inquiry is also constrained by features of the universe that are actually observed, and this gives rise, secondly, to questions about the good purposes that are being served by these features (for example, the motions of the heavenly bodies, the psychophysical constitutions of human beings, etc)., and how the features in question accomplish those purposes.

Minkler, Gofman and Tandy (1970a, b) have recently reported data on the karyotype constitutions of human tissue culture cell lines and human tumours, as gathered by a semi-automatic chromosome analysis system.

The conception of death in most religions is closely related to the particular view held about the constitution of human nature.

I recommend some form of relationship, of forming a contract to raise a child, but I don't think it's ever been in the constitution of human nature to be monogamous.

Thus the primary task of philosophy for these philosophers became that of providing a theory of knowledge based on an adequate assessment of the constitution of human nature, for they were interested in knowledge only as a human achievement.

For that very reason, descriptive knowledge of the psychological or biological constitution of human beings can be understood as providing us with knowledge of plausible constraints for evaluating the validity of various normative standards.

More in general, on the relation between identity and technology, it is interesting to observe the development of the thought of Sherry Turkle, one of the pioneers focussing on the sociology and psychology of the growing impact of virtuality on the constitution of human identity.

Similarly, the tragic sense of pragmatic naturalism did not require the acceptance of the inevitability of human self-destruction because of the flawed constitution of human nature, as in the religious metaphors of original sin or the Freudian metaphor of the "death instinct".

This essay specifically explores the commitment of both Leavis and Wittgenstein to the idea of "the life of language": to the idea of language as deeply involved in the constitution of "human worlds," rather than a mere system of notation for the recording of natural regularities.

Refocusing attention from the Maya elite and offering critical analysis of daily life interwoven with larger anthropological theories, Robin engages us to consider the larger implications of the seemingly mundane and to rethink the constitution of human societies, everyday life, and ordinary people.

Reid glosses Hume and Smith's theory as being that "Moral Approbation or Disapprobation is not an Act of the Judgement, which, like all acts of judgment, must be true or false, it is only a certain Feeling, which, from the constitution of human nature, arises upon contemplating certain characters of qualities of mind cooly and impartially" (EAP 5.5, 301 2).