How To Use Human action In A Sentence
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Induction, a posteriori, would have brought phrenology to admit, as an innate and primitive principle of human action, a paradoxical something, which we may call perverseness, for want of a more characteristic term.
The Imp of the Perverse
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A thousand generations had lived and died, an immense volume of history had been enacted, the heroes of all the ages, and almost those of our own time, had fulfilled their destinies and passed away, before it came about that a mere physical fact should fill a larger place in our lives than all examples, and that the evanescent vapor which we call steam should change daily, and effectively, the courses and modes of human action, and erect life upon another plane.
Steam, Steel and Electricity
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The project has meanwhile advanced, however, and the research fellows have long since grown accustomed to speaking of technology in the sense of habitus, medium, infrastructure, and technostructures of society or human action.
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He had a powerful sense of the emptiness of his remembered landscape, animated only momentarily by human action; life becomes explicable as a diagrammatic series of gestures and relationships, "the underlying magic", as Miró described it, and he developed a way of painting that seemed to respond to those energies.
Joan Miró: A life in paintings
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Hume defends the necessitarian point of view by arguing that all human actions are caused by antecedent motives.
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As species wither, the marine food chain could be disrupted; human action is needed to curtail further acidification.
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Upon which design of variety it is, that the poets never represent the same persons always victorious or prosperous or acting with the same constant tenor of virtue; — yea, even the gods themselves, when they engage in human actions, are not represented as free from passions and errors; — lest, for the want of some difficulties. and cross passages, their poems should be destitute of that briskness which is requisite to move and astonish the minds of men.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Rejecting the quest for absolute certainty, it takes a meliorist attitude that human action sometimes can improve the world.
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Fortunately, I do not have to refute the labor theory of value, it's already been done, see Human Action by Mises.
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Speech, gesture, and every other form of human action are, in the long run, resolvable into muscular contraction, and muscular contraction is but a transitory change in the relative positions of the parts of a muscle.
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In part this is, of course, related to the difficulties in assessing the effect of human actions upon ecosystems, especially when the temporal and spatial scopes of ecosystems are misrecognized by humans.
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These reflections on human action derive largely from Aristotle, Aquinas and Kant.
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According to mechanistic views of behaviour, human action can be explained in terms of cause and effect.
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Both motivation and emotion will be analysed as processes concerned with the control of human action.
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Secondly, we may consider the effects of human action on the environment itself.
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Examination of such mediational means is key to interpretation of human action.
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According to mechanistic views of behaviour, human action can be explained in terms of cause and effect.
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Other damage results directly from human actions, from metal fixings that corrode or react with stone, and from inappropriate combinations of different types of stone.
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Economics is human action, a reality which no one can escape.
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Another distinction between human and animal behaviour is that considerations of motive are appropriate to the assessment of human action.
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Don't they become fifth wheels, spinning pointlessly in relation to the processes responsible for human action?
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Secondly, we may consider the effects of human action on the environment itself.
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Both motivation and emotion will be analysed as processes concerned with the control of human action.
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Their influence provides a frame for human action and its casual consequences.
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The upshot of the merit and demerit of human actions rests upon this basis, that nothing is so much in the power of our will as our will itself, and that we have this free-will -- this, as it were, two-edged faculty -- and this elative power between two counsels which are immediately, as it were, within our reach.
The Existence of God
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Religions have also often attempted to reduce all human action to stylistic embrace as an expression of cosmological pretensions.
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In seeking to set aside actual swamp and marshland, local advocates found that while wetlands abounded, they were highly altered by human action.
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'intellectualist' assumption, 'that every human action is the result of an intellectual process, by which a man first thinks of some end which he desires, and then calculates the means by which that end can be attained' (p. 21).
Human Nature in Politics Third Edition
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The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.
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The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.
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Human actions are of no consequence as far as the geotectonic processes are concerned, but they have greatly accelerated the rate of weathering due to deforestation, overgrazing of pastures, and improper crop cultivation.
Global material cycles
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One is that ‘every human action takes place within the purview of moral judgment.’
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By those who rest knowledge immediately upon sense, that explanation of human action is deemed to be the truest which is nearest to sense.
Theaetetus
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Williams notes that semasiology as an anthropological viewpoint assumes that human action includes both spoken sign systems and action sign systems and that human action, in being agentic, is therefore not ‘behavior’.
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Yet these are invaluable tramlines that can guide purposeful human action.
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He superposes on the determinism of physical phenomena the indeterminism of human actions, and, consequently, on time-length a time in which there is invention, creation, true succession.
Evolution créatrice. English
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Archaeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of human behavior.
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Here the Divine action is distinguished from the human actions of touching or speaking, though it uses them, but through this close connexion the word theandric is not out of place for the whole complex act, while the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Nature is a destructive force whose influence provides the frame for human action and its causal consequences.
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It is well suited for a popular readership seeking a general understanding of sociobiological causes for human actions.
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According to mechanistic views of behaviour, human action can be explained in terms of cause and effect.
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Mathematical rigor in economics is not a reliable predictor of human action.
The Math Bubble, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Thus, in ancient art, any human action was on the plane of the heroic.
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Every human action takes place within the purview of moral judgment.
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Lastly, this commandment conveys the obligation to dissent from, and reject, every superstition and every error, requiring us to preserve pure and intemerate the adoration due to the Supreme Being, who, in this sense, is represented in this text as jealously watching over human actions, and a not indifferent spectator of good or evil; therefore a sure punisher of the guilty, and an eternal remunerator of him who faithfully adheres to His law.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
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Nor need feminists and womanists worry unduly in this case about the tendency of atonement models to foster one-sided and narrow prescriptions for human action by elevating certain features of the cross to salvific status.
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In many cases, human actions may merely alter the character of habitats rather than eliminate them.
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Another distinction between human and animal behaviour is that considerations of motive are appropriate to the assessment of human action.
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III. i.14 (63,3) [For all the accommodations, that thou bear'st Are nurs'd by baseness] Dr. Warburton is undoubtedly mistaken in supposing that by _baseness_ is meant _self-love_ here assigned as the motive of all human actions.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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And yet, when the worst human action inspires a surprisingly goodhearted reaction, it brings out the very best human qualities: hope, solidarity, kindness and compassion.
Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W.: Columbine Victim Rachel Scott's Kindness Lives On
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Because the Bible in its catalogue of human actions, does not stamp on every crime its name and number, and write against it, _this is a crime_ -- does that wash out its guilt, and bleach into a virtue?]
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
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Lastly, this commandment conveys the obligation to dissent from, and reject, every superstition and every error, requiring us to preserve pure and intemerate the adoration due to the Supreme Being, who, in this sense, is represented in this text as jealously watching over human actions, and a not indifferent spectator of good or evil; therefore a sure punisher of the guilty, and an eternal remunerator of him who faithfully adheres to His law.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
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Both claim to substitute a purely causal treatment of human action for the — as they declare unscientific — teleological treatment.
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Even if it is, what do you make of the loss of subtle hints, such as hesitance in moving a piece, that are lost when human action is translated into IO's?
What do we mean by ‘computer game’?
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Human action is the purposeful striving after desired ends.
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She emphasized objectivism as a practical philosophy - one that is ‘concerned with the universal principles which must guide human action in achieving happiness here on earth.’
