Sentence examples for shared human nature from inspiring English sources

Because of this shared human nature, with its biological foundation, "human politics is subject to certain recurring patterns of behavior across time and across cultures," he writes.

Values cannot be addressed except in the context of a general theory about our shared human nature.

They also suggest that we can count on significant moral agreement based on contingent facts and the existence of a shared human nature.

The unificationist project is an empirical bet that is based on the assumption that human psychology is enough alike to treat at least some culturally distinctive forms of mental disorder as expressions of a shared human nature that is differently shaped by local culture.

The precepts of the natural law are binding by nature: no beings could share our human nature yet fail to be bound by the precepts of the natural law.

He asserted that this was possible because artists and viewers shared a universal human nature.

The nostalgic view of ancient political philosophy as predicated on widely shared conceptions of human nature and the human good, before the splintering and fracturing of modernity, is an oversimplification.

"These guys don't own any shares, and human nature tells you that all they care about are their bonuses and salaries," he said, referring to Hochtief's chief executive, Herbert Lütkestratkötter, and his executive team.

In his response to this question, Hume accounts for the expectation of agreement in judgments of taste by appealing to the fact that we share a common human nature, and he accounts for 'objectivity' or expertise in judgments of taste, within the context of his subjectivism, by appealing to the normative responses of well-placed observers.

(Rousseau later countered this, saying that animals shared "some measure" of human nature and should partake of "natural right").

Both translations accord with the New Testament doctrine that the baptized are united with Jesus Christ, who shares in their human nature, and that their goal is to share in his present glorified state.