Sentences with phrase «human ideas on»

This paper is being prepared for the «Sixth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning,» to be held in Toronto, Canada, on August 21 - 24, 1991.

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If this idea sounds familiar — OK, even vaguely familiar — that's because De Brouwer was inspired by the Star Trek Tricorder, a handheld device that could examine living things and offer data on activity imperceptible to the human eye.

We believed that the relationship between natural capital, or what nature provides for free, and production could be understood only if the corporations and foundations that focused on development embraced the idea that nature and human well - being are inseparable.

With that in mind, CNBC recently asked «One Strange Rock's» contributors to share their thoughts on the idea of humans departing Earth for life on Mars.

«One Strange Rock» illustrates the idea that Earth has several frontiers humans have yet to conquer, and functions as a love letter of sorts to the planet at a time when humans have their sights set on redder pastures.

The idea, which was primarily based on the research of psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey, quickly took off — and went on to greatly influence the way we think about emotions and human behavior.

The idea — that an ability to understand and manage emotions greatly increases our chances of success — quickly took off, and it went on to greatly influence the way people think about emotions and human behavior.

«Vital Vio is an incredibly exciting company built on a truly revolutionary breakthrough idea — disinfecting without using harsh chemicals or other agents that could cause harm to human health or engender resistance to treatment.

Otherwise, the world will miss out on some pretty outlandish world - changing ideas — from autonomous vehicles to cancer - fighting checkpoint inhibitors to smartphones that can warn of an impending stroke to deep - learning machines that may solve some of the biggest mysteries in human disease.

The idea behind astrology is that stars and planets have some influence on human affairs and terrestrial events.

«Liberalism, socialism, and pragmatism may all be termed optimistic in the sense that they are all premised on the idea that the application of reason to human social and political conditions will ultimately result in the melioration of these conditions.

«It's a sound idea, but it gets a lot harder to do the bigger the company gets,» says Bruce Ellig, former worldwide head of human resources at Pfizer Inc. and author of several books on compensation.

Artificial Intelligence AI startup SingularityNET, recently covered by Wired as the most tech - hype idea of the year, wants to democratize AI research and facilitate the emergence of human - level AI on a decentralized, open - source platform.Singularity...

It also forms the idea of justice; through our empathy for other humans, we seek to mete out punishment to wrongdoers on the same level of seriousness as the crimes they have committed.

Where on Earth did you EVER get the idea that human DNA is as close to drosophila as to P. troglodytes?

Moreover, for a certain kind of writer on the left, ideas must bear a revolutionary panache, and there is a frisson of defiance in taking one's stance with, say, the Druids of old (reinvented and sanitized, to be sure, without, for instance, the burning of human sacrifices).

Religion is based on the interpretation from people who when written, had no idea the world was round, that humans can build facilities to generate electricity and guns.

All we do is discount the idea that there is some deity out there with all the right answers for every single human, and that some writings or leaders here on earth somehow convey those answers.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

When Pope John Paul II spoke on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of the UDHR in 1998, he warned, «Certain shadows however hover over the anniversary, consisting in the reservations being expressed in relation to two essential characteristics of the very idea of human rights: their universality and their indivisibility.»

That is, we must establish a new concept based on a balance between these two ideas, thereby achieving an interpretation of the harmonious relationship that is aspired to between human being and the rest of nature.

The western church, Catholic and Protestant, has seized on the idea of a «Redeemer,» that is, a buy back merchant deal in which Jesus Christ must be a human / divine sacrifice in order to «buy back» (redeem) humanity's right to eternal life.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Any comparison between President Obama, a deeply human and compassionate man, and the mythical figure of the «devil» reflects badly on those who would even entertain such an obviously misguided idea.

Perhaps he oversimplifies the idea of human will: the «Big Book» of AA indicts the alcoholic as «an extreme example of self - will run riot,» the first requirement for recovery being that he becomes «convinced that any life run on self - will can hardly be a success.»

Apart from the problems with the idea of «fixed probabilities», one might think that Papineau's readiness to surrender to the physicists the last word on human thinking imperils his employment as a philosopher.

As can be seen through comparative religion, no human philosopher or religious leader has ever invented the idea that God fully and freely accepts human beings without any effort or work on their part.

• After Germaine Greer said that freedom is the world's most dangerous idea, and sex columnist Dan Savage picked population control, newspaper columnist Peter (brother of Christopher) Hitchens declared on Australian TV that «the most dangerous idea in human history and philosophy remains the belief that Jesus Christ was the son of God and rose from the dead.»

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

I mean, I know the Freudian superstition has been largely discredited since those heady days — his results were falsified, his psychotherapeutic sorcery doesn't work, and so on — but that doesn't alter the extraordinary hold his model of human motives still has over people's imaginations, or the bibulous excitement his ideas once inspired.

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

Though he verbally defended the old New England idea, it is interesting that he defended it more on the basis of reason and human rights than on the basis of Scripture, and this defense of congregational independence later provided arguments for advocates of the revolution against England.

The idea of transcendence, he says, belongs to the infancy of the human race and is on the same level with the bourgeois idea of a hierarchical society.

If we are to avoid the threat and attain the promises inherent in the culminating phase of this epoch in world history, our requirement is a massive transformation of ideas, attitudes, commitments, and goals on the part of human beings around the globe.

The idea that we are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but instead spiritual beings on a human journey, and we can sense and know all kinds of things about God through Jesus.

Or is the human race an infallible one so that any idea can be, move over should be, taken on faith of its truth no matter the reality of things and then acted on without concern of the real truth which was «WILLFULLY» overlooked?

As an Enlightenment idea, «academic freedom» is usually associated with a rationale that depends on a particular view of human nature.

This «economic man», as he came to be called, could hardly be more distant from the Christian idea that human nature is based on gift — life received as a gift from God, love given freely to other men.

Aronofsky's Noah becomes so disturbed by human sinfulness that he obsesses on the idea that the race should not survive.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

, but they have only very hazy ideas about what the Church really says on human dignity, the value of each one of us, the beauty of human love, the value of authentic family life, the mutual companionship of men and women.

Thus, while the idea behind the terms «event» and «activity» may be basically the same, the shift may have indicated a growing concern that the stress be laid on the human role in the growth of value.

Humans is not been without their countless ideas about how to get to heaven, but when it comes to our word verses God's word, I always bet on God's Word.

Concerned principally with international conflicts, Grotius held that humans are, on the one hand, inherently prone to strife as a result of their conflicting purposes or ideas of the good and, on the other, socially - minded beings who want to live together.

Just imagine — If the human race is still around in a thousand years and we were somehow able to listen in on a discussion regarding what we now think is true in all of these areas, I'm guessing there would be lots of chuckling about our «primitive» ideas.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

The idea of disposable human beings is as odious in the laboratory as on the battlefield.

He agrees with all three that philosophy's first task is to describe the operations of the human mind based on direct introspection of these operations and the ideas that are their contents.

This lowercase - a anglican ethics leads, in turn, to Whig politics: the idea of limited government, answerable to the people and built on constitutional guarantees of fundamental human rights.

Kant's sentence grows out of an «ought» based on the idea of human dignity.