Sentence examples for through human agency from inspiring English sources

But since this end does not seem attainable entirely through human agency in the natural world, we must, if we are to believe it is possible, postulate the existence of God, who mediates between the realms of nature and freedom, allowing morally good intentions to be expressed through actions in the natural world, and virtue to ground proportional happiness (CPrR 5 124 26).

If Darwin is misunderstood, it may be the interpretation that natural selection is an objective force outside human nature, rather than one acting through human agency.

There are various beliefs within the movement as to how this new age will come about, but most emphasise the idea that it will be established through human agency; others assert that it will be established with the aid of non-human forces such as spirits or extraterrastrials.

t. altaica extended from Anatolia to the Russian Far East and this range became discontinuous recently, within the last 200 years, probably through human agency.

There is little geographical structure to global C. elegans populations, suggesting extensive dispersal, likely through human agency.

Evidentially, what about a species that could have been established in an area either through human agency or in the absence of human activity (Kendle and Rose 2000: 21)?

The system is supposed to operate not through deliberate human agency, but through the automatic writing of the invisible hand.

Religion once helped provide meaning and identity through sublimating human agency to God's will.

Exercise of human agency through collective efficacy.

Bandura, A. Exercise of human agency through collective efficacy.

However, there is such a thing as social causation, proceeding through the workings of human agency and the constraints of institutions and structures.