Sentence examples for natural capacities from inspiring English sources

Kant's insistence that human history is the working out of "nature's plan" to realize the full natural capacities of humans in society anticipates Crummell's social progressivism ("Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose," proposition 8).

Marx thus departs from Hegel by insisting that "the fact that man is a corporeal, actual, sentient, objective being with natural capacities means that he has actual, sensuous objects for his nature as objects of his life-expression, or that he can only express his life in actual sensuous objects".

It may even become a consumer good, if drugs intended to let people operate beyond their natural capacities are developed.

"Religions are cultural arrangements that evolved to engage and exploit these natural capacities in humans".

She argues that those without normative, rational capacities share certain "natural" capacities with persons, and these natural capacities are often the content of the moral demands that persons make on each other.

In virtue of their natural capacities, creatures like us are potentially dialogical, that is, responsive to reason.

Stephano and Trinculo are vulgar by comparison, and "in conducting [them] to Prospero's cell", by understanding the "nature" by which it is surrounded, "Caliban shews the superiority of natural capacity over greater knowledge and greater folly".

Curiosity is an inherent natural capacity that builds on itself and is it in itself is naturally rewarding.

His body throbbed, as if he had just exercised far beyond his natural capacity.

Introducing an outlandish aspect to the scene triggers humans' natural capacity to remember unusual or exciting events.

"In many ways, our natural capacity to learn is astonishing: when interested and engaged, anyone can learn remarkably well," says Ed Cooke, creator of language learning app Memrise.