As a result, religious morality too often cuts across the grain of human nature, distorting it and crushing its natural impulses, not least as regards sex – always an inflated subject of interest for religious moralists, who throughout history have been frightened of it and bent on limiting it as strictly as possible.
Nature includes not only what produces natural impulses but also the rest of the government of the cosmos, the natural world.
But unlike them, he accepts the principle that what agrees or accords with a creature's nature as it is expressed in its natural impulses is good for that creature, and that the good life for human beings is therefore the life characterized by the fullest possible enjoyment of the goods corresponding to our natural impulses (Cicero, Acad. 1.19, 22; Fin. 5.24 5).
The most prophylactic among virtues are fortitude, prudence and moderation, and they result from the combined actions of nature, habit and reason, establishing a delicate balance between control of natural impulses (impetus naturae), education, and the process of decision making.
Rhythm fluttered everywhere, but rarely overwhelmed; Mr. Previte, a groove-minded drummer, kept his natural impulses in check.
The cult of the Shaktas is based on the principle of the ritual sublimation of natural impulses to maintain and reproduce life.
Next he says that whatever prudence would aim for is something suited to our nature and the object of natural impulse (what the Greeks call hormê).
This season, Edwards resisted his natural impulse, buried his frustration.
But the natural impulse of capitalism is selfishness.
My natural impulse was to shrug it off.
It is a natural impulse of all people to live freely in their own truth.
