Classical accounts of this state depict individual humans as frustrated in their most basic needs and desires, and as incapable of the refinement needed to develop their distinctive faculties and exercise their freedom.
Shakespeare's characters were so distinctive that it is as if each were expressed by a distinct "faculty" of his mind; and, in effect, these faculties could be considered as showing "excessive sociability", notable for "how they gossiped and compared notes together".
Many modern philosophers have at this point felt the need to invoke imagination, either as a distinct mental "faculty" (Kant) or as a distinctive mental operation by virtue of which thought and experience may be united.
In the same interview, he claimed that disease was not only physically debilitating but psychologically degrading: "physical wretchedness has done its worse on the human sufferer, for it has destroyed his mind... [it] annihilates the mental faculties the faculties distinctive of the human being".
God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power -- the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge -- the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment".
The authors wrote that the distinctive feature of the human faculty of language, narrowly defined, is recursion.
Each of the colleges has its own, distinctive architectural style and a resident faculty provost, who is the nominal head of his or her college.
The language faculty is probably the most distinctive feature of our species, and endows us with a unique ability to exchange highly structured information.
Enhanced communication abilities, in particular the faculty of language are arguably the most distinctive trait attributed to humans.
In 1795 he also published a substantial supplement to the Foundation, under the title Outline of the Distinctive Character of the Wissenschaftslehre with Respect to the Theoretical Faculty.
