Sentence examples for human vocation from inspiring English sources

In his essay "On Religion" (1789) Humboldt drew the outlines of a historical typology that would make it possible to study the relationship between religion and state power from the Greek city-states to present times and envisaged the purpose of the modern state as enabling its citizens to realize fully their "human vocation" (Bestimmung als Mensch, GS Vol 1, S.54).

More recently, the connection between aesthetics and morality, and in particular the role of aesthetics in supporting the human moral vocation, has been emphasized by Guyer; see the introduction to his (1993), and, more recently, (2003c).

Personalists see the human person's vocation to communion as rooted in rational nature, through the person's subjectivity and self-determination.

What's curious is the lack of vocation most human beings have for reality".

Father David is a man who has given up all thoughts of human intimacy for his vocation.

Part of it was innate: that ingrained uneasiness with being identified too completely with one's vocation that human beings, and especially novelists, are encouraged to deny, and which a writer such as Geoff Dyer exemplifies in his oeuvre, but also makes his principal subject.

Particular rights are only "natural" in the sense that they are "necessary to the end which it is the vocation of human society to realise" (LPPO 9).

It is humanity's first vocation.

And the deliberate human refusal of this shared vocation with and within the material order of things is thus an act of rebellion against the creator.

Insofar as this unity of the "All" is anticipated as future, moreover, its realization may be said to depend on human beings taking up the vocation they become aware of in revelation.

"The great vocation of the collective human psyche is denial.