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The continuing irony of American history.
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Christianity has always had a complicated, even paradoxical, relationship to the world. It is, first and foremost, an incarnational faith, which means that it is neither entirely transcendent nor entirely worldly in character. It steadily partakes of both. The Word became Flesh, and dwelt among us. And Christianity departs from its true nature when it leans too much in the direction of one or the other polarity, overemphasizing either the transcendental or the worldly. Both deserve ...
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Human nature and the creation of new values.
Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
; The concept of human nature, having fallen on hard times during the modern period, has become a focus of contemporary interest. This renewed interest centers around the new genetics, especially the real possibility of genetically transforming our species. Asking ourselves what kind of transhumans
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Panel mulls duality of human nature: Empathy, lack of same draw scrutiny.(Culture, Et Cetera)
The Washington Times
; Just how bad can two boys be? On April 20, when two middle-class students marched into a Colorado high school and gleefully shot and killed 13 persons, the nation found out. Nine days later in Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Hero Fund pondered just how good people can get. It inducted 18 more North
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More "Mencius-on-human-nature" discussions: what are they about?(Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations)(Book Review)
China Review International
; Alan Kam-leung Chan, editor. Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. vii, 328 pp. Hardcover $51.00, ISBN 0-8248-2377-x. Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations, edited by Alan K. L. Chan, consists of thirteen essays by different authors on various aspects
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Human nature in the Balkans--and here
The Spectator
; Events in Kosovo these last three months or so must have left many of us wondering what to think about human nature. Kosovo Serbs massacred Kosovo Albanians. Kosovo Albanians, if the Nato occupiers would let them, would undoubtedly massacre Kosovo Serbs and, in a few incidents, have already done
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Evil and human nature.
The Monist
; I One familiar philosophical use of the term `evil' just contrasts it with `good', i.e., something is an evil if it is a bad thing, one of life's minuses. This is the sense of `evil' that is used in posing the traditional theological problem of evil, though it is customary there to distinguish
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Back to the future: Habermas's the future of human nature.(Critical essay)(Letter to the editor)
The Hastings Center Report
; To the Editor: I have already had my say in these pages on Habermas on bioethics, and it is bad form for an author to cite himself. Forgive me, then, for protesting that Elizabeth Fenton's Liberal Eugenics and Human Nature: Against Habermas (Nov-Dec 2006) disappoints me, and not only because she
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Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition.(Book review)
Theological Studies
; IS HUMAN NATURE OBSOLETE? GENETICS, BIOENGINEERING, AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. Edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2005. Pp. x + 422. $67; $27. This book is the 13th volume in the Basic Bioethics series published by MIT Press. As its subtitle
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Human Nature in Republican Tradition and Paradise Lost.(Critical Essay)
Early Modern Literary Studies
; Human Nature in Republican Tradition and Paradise Lost William Walker University of New South Wales W.Walker@unsw.edu.au Walker, William. Human Nature in Republican Tradition and Paradise Lost . Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1 (May, 2004) 6.1-44 <URL:
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The human nature of freedom and identity - we hold more than random thoughts.(Twenty-Fourth Federalist Society Student Symposium, Law and Freedom)
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
; ... Dossier: Everything You Need to Know about Bush's Nominee, Before the Battle Begins, Salon.com, July 20, 2005, http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/20/roberts_ dossier/index_np.html ( Roberts doesn't seem to be a big fan of the Endangered Species Act, at least ...
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'Human Nature': Fauve Pas
The Washington Post
; What of human nature would a guy know whose one claim to fame was a bunch of Bjork videos? But that's exactly the pedigree that the French director Michel Gondry brings to "Human Nature," a kind of fauvist fable that explores how it is we are who we are. The results, if not memorable, are at least
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