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  1 Bles          |         like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation
  2 Bles          |           and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the
  3  Int,   1     |        self-consciousness: the more human beings know reality and
  4  Int,   1     |            the rest of creation as “human beings”, that is as those
  5  Int,   1     |             questions which pervade human life: Who am I? Where have
  6  Int,   1     |            has always compelled the human heart. In fact, the answer
  7  Int,   2     |            the ultimate truth about human life, the Church has made
  8  Int,   3     |        their lives may be ever more human. Among these is philosophy,
  9  Int,   3     |          then, as one of noblest of human tasks. According to its
 10  Int,   3     |          Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions
 11  Int,   3     |         desire for truth is part of human nature itself. It is an
 12  Int,   3     |            is an innate property of human reason to ask why things
 13  Int,   3     |           reveals how the different human cultures are complementary.~
 14  Int,   4     |        ultimate truth of existence, human beings seek to acquire those
 15  Int,   4     |          contemplation of creation: human beings are astonished to
 16  Int,   4     |    speculate which is proper to the human intellect produces a rigorous
 17  Int,   5     |            fundamental truths about human life. At the same time,
 18  Int,   5     |            this special activity of human reason. I judge it necessary
 19  Int,   5     |           From this starting-point, human reason with its many questions
 20  Int,   5     |    one-sided concern to investigate human subjectivity, seems to have
 21  Int,   5     |             rather than voicing the human orientation towards truth,
 22  Int,   5     |           concentrated instead upon human knowing. Rather than make
 23  Int,   5     |         Rather than make use of the human capacity to know the truth,
 24  Int,   5     |            closer to the reality of human life and its forms of expression,
 25  Int,   5     |          widespread distrust of the human being's great capacity for
 26  Int,   5     |          and ultimate foundation of human, personal and social existence.
 27    1,   7     |             the knowledge which the human being has of God perfects
 28    1,   7     |           God perfects all that the human mind can know of the meaning
 29    1,   8     |             the knowledge proper to human reason, which nevertheless
 30    1,  10     |         deepest truth about God and human salvation is made clear
 31    1,  11     |         Word made flesh, sent as 'a human being to human beings', '
 32    1,  11     |           sent as 'a human being to human beings', 'speaks the words
 33    1,  12     |      definitive synthesis which the human mind of itself could not
 34    1,  12     |            the part, God takes on a human face. The truth communicated
 35    1,  12     |         valid source of meaning for human life. Now, in Christ, all
 36    1,  12     |             riddle. Where might the human being seek the answer to
 37    1,  13(15) |      intellect and the will: “Since human beings are totally dependent
 38    1,  14     |           ignored if the mystery of human life is to be known. Yet
 39    1,  14     |            mystery of God which the human mind cannot exhaust but
 40    1,  14     |      ultimate truth which stirs the human mind to ceaseless effort;
 41    1,  14     |     fruitful and important minds in human history, a point of reference
 42    1,  15     |          absolute truth, it summons human beings to be open to the
 43    1,  15     |  possibility offered by God for the human being to know in all its
 44    1,  15     |           of an argument devised by human reason. It appears instead
 45    2,  16     |             but solely to bring the human being to understand that
 46    2,  16     |        Proverbs are pertinent: “The human mind plans the way, but
 47    2,  16     |            with the light of reason human beings can know which path
 48    2,  17     |      respective worlds, God and the human being are set within a unique
 49    2,  17     |        works in such a way that the human heart, despite its experience
 50    2,  18     |            reason must realize that human knowledge is a journey which
 51    2,  18     |         abandoning these rules, the human being runs the risk of failure
 52    2,  19     |             with their intelligence human beings can “know the structure
 53    2,  19     |         reasoning about nature, the human being can rise to God: “
 54    2,  19     |            with the proper tools of human reason, can lead to knowledge
 55    2,  19     |        knowledge of the Creator. If human beings with their intelligence
 56    2,  20     |             true meaning. In brief, human beings attain truth by way
 57    2,  21     |          careful observation of the human being, of the world and
 58    2,  22     |               This is to concede to human reason a capacity which
 59    2,  22     |            Pauline text affirms the human capacity for metaphysical
 60    2,  22     |             diminished.~This is the human condition vividly described
 61    2,  22     |        tells us that God placed the human being in the Garden of Eden,
 62    2,  22     |          From that time onwards the human capacity to know the truth
 63    2,  22     |            who reveals just how far human thinking, because of sin,
 64    2,  22     |            sin, became “empty”, and human reasoning became distorted
 65    2,  23     |            of existence upon merely human argumentation comes to grief.
 66    2,  23     |             s saving plan to purely human logic is doomed to failure. “
 67    2,  23     |          that are” (1 Cor 1:27-28). Human wisdom refuses to see in
 68    2,  23     |            is able to recognize the human being's ceaselessly self-transcendent
 69    3,  24     |           in the far reaches of the human heart there is a seed of
 70    3,  24     |          therefore a path which the human being may choose to take,
 71    3,  24     |          articulated this universal human desire.~
 72    3,  25     |                            25. “All human beings desire to know”,23
 73    3,  25     |             rightly tuned will, the human person sets foot upon the
 74    3,  26     |        truth comes initially to the human being as a question: Does
 75    3          |              The different faces of human truth~
 76    3,  28     |         anxiety. One may define the human being, therefore, as the
 77    3,  29     |          search so deeply rooted in human nature would be completely
 78    3,  29     |            rudiments of a response. Human beings would not even begin
 79    3,  29     |           truth is so rooted in the human heart that to be obliged
 80    3,  29     |      confirms that in principle the human being can arrive at the
 81    3,  30     |           speculative powers of the human intellect. Finally, there
 82    3,  31     |                                 31. Human beings are not made to live
 83    3,  31     |          there are in the life of a human being many more truths which
 84    3,  31     |            yielded the treasures of human wisdom and religion? This
 85    3,  31     |       religion? This means that the human being—the one who seeks
 86    3,  32     |           reveals from deep within. Human perfection, then, consists
 87    3,  33     |             It is the nature of the human being to seek the truth.
 88    3,  33     |          significant and expressive human acts.~It must not be forgotten
 89    3,  33     |            Christian faith immerses human beings in the order of grace,
 90    3,  33(28) |        These are questions in every human heart, as the poetic genius
 91    3,  33(28) |        serious question which makes human beings truly what they are.
 92    3,  33(28) |          the deep reasonableness of human existence, since they summon
 93    3,  33(28) |        existence, since they summon human intelligence and will to
 94    3,  33(28) |           the highest expression of human nature; which is why the
 95    3,  33(28) |           the ultimate answer, then human reason reaches its zenith
 96    3,  33(28) |           highest expression of the human person, because it is the
 97    3,  33(28) |           springs from the profound human aspiration for the truth
 98    3,  33(28) |          and it is the basis of the human being's free and personal
 99    3,  34     |            a fundamental premise of human reasoning, as the principle
100    3,  34     |              cf. Jn 1:14, 18). What human reason seeks “without knowing
101    4,  36     |        voice of conscience in every human being (cf. Rom 1:19-21;
102    4,  36     |            philosophy was to purify human notions of God of mythological
103    4,  36     |       natural things and phenomena. Human attempts to understand the
104    4,  36     |          the first evidence of this human search. But it was the task
105    4,  37     |          empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to
106    4,  41     |             rather in the depths of human souls, and it was a meeting
107    4,  42     |           same wisdom, of which the human being can know nothing or
108    4,  43     |           exercise of thought”; and human reason is neither annulled
109    4,  44     |              heights unthinkable to human intelligence”.51 Rightly,
110    4,  46     |            something other than the human person and the entirety
111    4,  46     |            nature and even over the human being.~As a result of the
112    4,  47     |           one of the many fields of human knowing; indeed in some
113    4,  47     |            the drama of present-day human existence in its broadest
114    5,  50     |        opinions—concerning God, the human being, human freedom and
115    5,  50     |    concerning God, the human being, human freedom and ethical behaviour—
116    5,  51     |             history and produced by human reason wounded and weakened
117    5,  51     |         complete explanation of the human being, of the world and
118    5,  51     |             of the world and of the human being's relationship with
119    5,  53     |        faith has also placed in the human spirit the light of reason.
120    5,  54     |             truth and instill it in human hearts, cannot afford to
121    5,  55     |           into restricted fields of human knowing or its structures.~
122    5,  56     |            to trust in the power of human reason and not to set themselves
123    5,  60     |         deals with the value of the human person created in the image
124    5,  60     |      dignity and superiority of the human being over the rest of creation,
125    5,  60     |            transcendent capacity of human reason.80 The problem of
126    5,  60     |          dignity and freedom of the human person.81 There is no doubt
127    5,  60     |         harmonious knowledge of the human being, of the world and
128    5,  61     |  metaphysical study of the ultimate human questions in order to concentrate
129    5,  61     |      especially with regard to the “human sciences”. On a number of
130    5,  61     |     knowledge of the mystery of the human being.85 But the invitation
131    5,  61     |           theologians to engage the human sciences and apply them
132    6,  64     |          part of the world; and the human being is by nature a philosopher.
133    6,  66     |         implies a philosophy of the human being, the world and, more
134    6,  67     |        credibility, the capacity of human language to speak in a true
135    6,  67     |          things which transcend all human experience. From all these
136    6,  67     |           find expression by way of human reason fully free to give
137    6,  68     | contribution. In the New Testament, human life is much less governed
138    6,  68     |             philosophical vision of human nature and society, as well
139    6,  69     |          the help of other kinds of human knowledge, such as history
140    6,  69     |               It is not an array of human opinions but truth alone
141    6,  70     |             cultures show forth the human being's characteristic openness
142    6,  70     |           make their life ever more human.94 Insofar as cultures appeal
143    6,  71     |        share the dynamics which the human experience of life reveals.
144    6,  71     |        depend upon it and shape it. Human beings are both child and
145    6,  72     |             the universality of the human spirit, whose basic needs
146    6,  72     |           to the very nature of the human spirit, the legitimate defense
147    6,  73     |           Truth (cf. Jn 17:17), the human search for truth—philosophy,
148    6,  75     |            the inherent weakness of human reason, this aspiration
149    6,  76     |           Christian proclamation of human dignity, equality and freedom
150    6,  76     |             as a new chapter in the human search for truth.~Among
151    6,  78     |          synthesis ever attained by human thought, for he could defend
152    6,  79     |           where Christian faith and human cultures may meet, a point
153    7,  80     |         which allow a vision of the human being and the world which
154    7,  80     |          and the immortality of the human spirit. Since the created
155    7,  80     |           God of every creature—the human being included—leads to
156    7,  80     |          harmony and the meaning of human life.~The problem of moral
157    7,  80     |          the disordered exercise of human freedom. In the end, the
158    7,  80     |           response in directing the human being to Jesus Christ, the
159    7,  80     |          the perfect realization of human existence. A reading of
160    7,  80     |         Bible is that the world and human life do have a meaning and
161    7,  80     |      understanding of the enigma of human existence, the created world
162    7,  80     |           essence of God and of the human being become intelligible:
163    7,  80     |      mystery of the Incarnate Word, human nature and divine nature
164    7,  81     |          interpreting the world and human life, serve only to aggravate
165    7,  81     |       nihilism.~In consequence, the human spirit is often invaded
166    7,  81     |           framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading
167    7,  81     |          potential destroyer of the human race.98~The word of God
168    7,  82     |          that philosophy verify the human capacity to know the truth,
169    7,  83     |     empirical, and to vindicate the human being's capacity to know
170    7,  83     |          experience does reveal the human being's interiority and
171    7,  83     |           to things which transcend human experience and even human
172    7,  83     |           human experience and even human thought; but this “mystery”
173    7,  83     |          way intelligible, 102 were human knowledge limited strictly
174    7,  84     |            clearly presupposes that human language is capable of expressing
175    7,  84     |             always a divine word in human language, would not be capable
176    7,  84     |          but only the expression of human notions about God and about
177    7,  85     |             the conviction that the human being can come to a unified
178    7,  85     |            the word of God makes on human thinking should develop
179    7,  88     |             dominate all aspects of human life through technological
180    7,  88     |            to the impoverishment of human thought, which no longer
181    7,  88     |         ultimate problems which the human being, as the animal rationale,
182    7,  89     |       one-dimensional vision of the human being, a vision which excludes
183    7,  90     |            the very identity of the human being. It should never be
184    7,  90     |             with the very ground of human dignity. This in turn makes
185    7,  90     |         Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion
186    7,  91     |           irrevocably past, and the human being must now learn to
187    7,  92(109)|          guide and the light of the human spirit”: No. 6: AAS 78 (
188    7,  93     |            mysterious truth for the human mind, which finds it inconceivable
189    7,  94     |            through the sacred text. Human language thus embodies the
190    7,  95     |   transcending those circumstances.~Human language may be conditioned
191    7,  95     |  constricted in other ways, but the human being can still express
192    7,  96(112)|           gave enlightenment to the human mind through the Church.
193    7,  98     |         about the good, knowable by human reason, is lost, inevitably
194    7,  98     |          and to the practice of the human and supernatural virtues,
195 Conc, 101     |          benefit and development of human thought, philosophy too
196 Conc, 102     |        promotes both the defence of human dignity and the proclamation
197 Conc, 102     |          needs, inscribed by God in human nature, the human and humanizing
198 Conc, 102     |            God in human nature, the human and humanizing meaning of
199 Conc, 104     |         cultivate the values of the human spirit while not yet acknowledging
200 Conc, 106     |            to illumine the range of human activity by the exercise
201 Conc, 106     |           and indelible mark of the human person. Scientists are well
202 Conc, 107     |             of his love, and at the human being's unceasing search
203 Conc, 107     |        never be the grandeur of the human being, who can find fulfilment
204 Conc, 108     |           offer herself entirely as human being and as woman that