humanity

Pericles learned to love and admire him, and the poet Euripides derived from him an enthusiasm for science and humanity.

However, he seems to suggest that historians are as fallible at interpreting the facts as the rest of humanity.

Spencer insisted people should resist for the benefit of collective humanity as these severe fate singles out the weak, debauched, and disabled.

Kant argued that the goal of humanity it to achieve perfect happiness and virtue ( the summum bonum ) and believed that an afterlife must exist in order for this to be possible, and that God must exist to provide this.

He continues his challenge, arguing that there is no reason to believe it is God who gives authority to moral laws – it could be given by the consent of humanity, for example.

One of the central themes of Acts, indeed of the New Testament ( see also Great Commission ) is the universality of Christianity — the idea that Jesus's teachings were for all humanity — Jews and Gentiles alike.

Confucius emphasized the role of the arts and humanities ( especially music and poetry ) in broadening human nature and aiding li ( etiquette, the rites ) in bringing us back to what is essential about humanity.

An argument for the value of art, used in the fictional work ' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ', proceeds that, if some external force presenting imminent destruction of Earth asked humanity what it's value was -- what should humanity's response be?

The argument continues that the only justification humanity could give for its continued existence would be the past creation and continued creation of things like a Shakespeare play, a Rembrandt painting or a Bach concerto.

The suggestion is that these are the things of value which define humanity.

* In the anime Wolf's Rain, ancient decaying domed cities from the times of the scientific breakthroughs shelter the remainder of humanity.

* The game Brink is set on a futuristic arcology to preserve humanity after a natural flooding disaster.

* In WildFire's CthulhuTech RPG, humanity has been forced to live in fortified arcologies due to attacks from the Old Ones and the Migou.

This requires developing new faculties of objective spiritual perception, which Steiner maintained was possible for humanity today.

Two spiritual adversaries endeavour to tempt and corrupt humanity: these are often described through their mythological embodiments, Lucifer and his counterpart Ahriman, which have both positive and negative aspects.

Both figures exert a negative effect on humanity when their influence becomes misplaced or one-sided, yet their influences are necessary for human freedom to unfold.

In his early works, Steiner sought to overcome what he perceived as the dualism of Cartesian idealism and Kantian subjectivism by developing Goethe's conception of the human being as a natural-supernatural entity, that is: natural in that humanity is a product of nature, supernatural in that through our conceptual powers we extend nature's realm, allowing it to achieve a reflective capacity in us as philosophy, art and science.

* All historical forms of Christianity need to be transformed considerably to meet the continuing evolution of humanity.

* He emphasized his belief that in the future humanity would need to be able to recognize the Spirit of Love in all its genuine forms, regardless of what name would be used to describe this being.

Heschel then goes on to explore the problems of doubts and faith ; what Judaism means by teaching that God is one ; the essence of humanity and the problem of human needs ; the definition of religion in general and of Judaism in particular ; and human yearning for spirituality.

He offers a criticism of nature worship ; a study of humanity's metaphysical loneliness, and his view that we can consider God to be in search of humanity.

Whereas other nations have soothsayers and diviners who attempt to discover the will of their gods, according to Heschel the Hebrew prophets are characterized by their experience of what he calls theotropism — God turning towards humanity.

He also posed an important question about the cause of the Incarnation: would Christ have been incarnated if humanity had never sinned?

Spanish advocates predicated the term adoptivus of Christ only in respect to his humanity ; once the divine Son " emptied himself " of divinity and " took the form of a servant " ( Philippians 2: 7 ), Christ's human nature was " adopted " as divine.

" In a speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he " must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement ," since he wrote " without any conscious thought of making propaganda ," his task having been " the description of humanity.