Sentences with phrase «about human freedom»

Such a doctrine of a divine management that can not serve but can only rule effectively precludes any serious talk about human freedom.

Speaking about human freedom, he is trying to cope with the Kantian dilemma of freedom and necessity within the framework of the categories of his organic logic.

A possible ecumenical appeal of the dogma is that it teaches us something about human freedom.

Biblical teaching about the divine foreknowledge appears to contradict biblical teaching about human freedom, and it is nigh unto impossible to see how the puzzle can be resolved rationally.

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Alex Miller, the global head of content at VICE Media, said in a statement that its readers «care deeply about freedom of speech and human rights» and that's why the company decided to launch the campaign for Rasool's release.

«The «feel good» language about mutually beneficial cooperation is intended to benefit autocratic states at the expense of people whose human rights and fundamental freedoms we are all obligated as states to respect,» Mack said.

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What I've written is for the benefit of others who actually give a damn about personal freedoms and human rights.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

In his communication through creation, his Son and the Bible, he gave only enough evidence for those with faith to follow the deductions to truth about him, but yet without defying human freedom.

The churches say that one should exercise one's freedom on behalf of fellow humans, and cite Paul's argument about eating meat: «If food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall» (1 Cor.

It seems that only in a community that has some control over its own economic life can there be freedom to decide about the respective roles of human labor and fossil energy.

It tells us that that the truth about human sexuality is something that ultimately offers genuine freedom to the homosexual person, helping him to escape the slavery to his passions that resulted from the misuse of his free will.

The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.

Wonder about what we hear regarding human rights and human freedom of speech and expression that being purred down our heads and now when I am here just got here to be heard I am told not to be here?

In addition to worrying about their own flocks, they also fear that the West, smitten with the BJP's growth - oriented economic agenda and preoccupied by the threat of Islamic extremism, ignores the constriction of religious freedom and human rights in India today.

They have fought advances of thought, they have tried to defeat the efforts of men and women to know more about the world, they have denied the validity of scientific truth, they have called into question the freedom and responsibility, as well as the dignity, of human life.

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about injecting as much of your religious culture and mindset which excludes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

It is really bizarre that the GOP bellows about wanting «small» government and more «freedom» while at the same time working to destroy human rights and true ability to choose for oneself.

As a political principle, however, freedom to choose one's religion in this sense implies the freedom to choose one's explicit belief about reality and human purpose as such, even if that belief is merely philosophical or ideological in nature.

They will lie about GDP, freedom, human rights, morality, religion, ethics, and body count.

However, haunted not only by his Manichean past but, soon, by Pelagian boasts of human moral competence, Augustine was never able to shake his anxieties about freedom.

All the verbiage about freedoms and you forget the simplest of freedoms: BEING — and millions of human women do not have this!

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.

From these considerations it becomes clear that mathematics, which superficially appears to have no relevance to the knowledge of human nature, actually affords important insights about human beings, not only as rational agents, but as persons with freedom yet also bound by necessities in the spatiotemporal order.

Such freedom to hold to ones own beliefs, to give expression to them in characteristic forms, and to tell others about them ought to be the privilege of all human beings.

Before we set out Whitehead's view, it should be noted that if his view really is a different way of looking at real things, then we will need to think about freedom, human action, responsibility, the meaning of life, the self, etc. in a new way.

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The hope for a redeemed humanity, living in dignity, freedom, and brotherhood under God is an integral part of the Christian faith about the meaning of the human adventure.

Idealism recognizes the presence of evil in history, but it makes a distinction between nature and reason and attributes evil to the body.16 Idealism is complacent about the perils of the freedom of the human spirit, convinced that spirit and rationality are identical and that rationality controls freedom.

From the perspective of James Madison's observations about factions and freedom in Federalist No. 10, for example, the respect for tradition and the flourishing of faith is not a glitch but a feature of a free society, which encourages the development of a variety of human types.

The only solution to the problem of evil «worth writing home about» is one in which human freedom is not only affirmed but is also «a special, intensified, magnified form of a general principle pervasive of reality, down to the very atoms and still farther.

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about a culture and mindset which includes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

Physicists and some process thinkers, such as the physicist and process theologian Ian G. Barbour, are cautious about making the long jump from indeterminacy in sub-atomic particles to human freedom and purpose,

The Islamic scholar added that imprisoned terrorists use the Qur» an to justify their opposition to British foreign policy about freedom of region, human rights and equality.

But they hold that God has given humans significant freedom — the freedom to bring about good or evil — and that God can not both grant such freedom and also ensure that it is never misused.

Humans are kept so busy with the work of Death here on planet Earth on a daily basis that they are constantly made to forget about their freedom that is just there over the horizon on the Moon and Mercury.

Drawing from the Islamic imperative that «God is one» and from the Qur» an's teaching about Adam and Eve, Rauf arrives at two essential principles: that all humans are equal «because we are born of one man and woman,» and that «because we are equal... we have certain inalienable liberties,» such as the freedom to accept or reject God, to think for ourselves (ijtihad) and to make individual choices without coercion.

At the same time, a persistent reflection on this central image may be able to explain, to some extent at least, why Christian theology has arrived at so many dead - ends in its ruminations about mystery, creation, suffering, and human freedom.

As George Weigel notes: «To those who object that the essence of the modern human condition is its plurality, John Paul says — you are right, and that is precisely why wehave to think more seriously about the possibility of moral truths and their relationship to living in freedom.»

how come their is still no talk about Russia Orthodox church attacking freedom of expression by p4ss7 riot,... oh that's right because anything Christians do that's evil is left out of the MSM meanwhile their letting more Christians strip human right from people, your just going to let that country and their Christians get away with it,..

Therefore, among the central identifying characteristics of the followers of Jesus would be involvement in the struggle effectively to bring about the Kingdom of God, «on earth as it is in heaven,» where freedom, fellowship, justice, responsible love reign and where people live as brothers / sisters, equitably sharing the resources of God's creation and being accountable for their own human future and that of the created world.

The document from the Equality and Human Rights Commission follows the European Court of Human Rights judgment in four cases about religious rights in the workplace, one of which found that an employee suffered a breach of her right to religious freedom for being told not to wear a cross at work.

One might have hoped that many of Thomas» own principles about the human person, liberty, conscience, and the indispensable freedom of faith would have led him to oppose the widespread legal consensus.

A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

The man who spent his early life as a worker behind the Iron Curtain became the instrument of the Holy Spirit in teaching the world about the true dignity of man, of human labour, and about the unfathomable power of Divine Mercy to transform evil into good, despair into hope, and oppression into freedom.

In reply, however, I asked Hick: «Why is [the deception involved in the deliberate creation of epistemic distance], which has resulted in most of the evils of human history, acceptable, whereas the deception about freedom, through which all those evils could have been avoided, would be unacceptable?

But this is to dodge the crucial question, which is precisely the question of the truth about man — the truth about the human person — on which any defense of human freedom with real traction must ultimately rest.