Sentences with phrase «about us is our human capacity»

The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our human capacity to learn personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion with other persons, and most of all with the unseen God.

Not exact matches

«We have an infinite capacity as human beings to tell ourselves stories, and the most important one we tell ourselves is about ourselves,» says performance coach Jennifer Lea, director of client relations at Johnson & Johnson's Human Performance Instihuman beings to tell ourselves stories, and the most important one we tell ourselves is about ourselves,» says performance coach Jennifer Lea, director of client relations at Johnson & Johnson's Human Performance InstiHuman Performance Institute.

I am pretty much with you in that, as humans, we don't have the know how or the mental capacity to even start to know anything about the vast universe.

As for your post about «smarter», I find it hard to argue with someone who believes that there isn't much difference in «intellectual capacity» among human beings.

Nevertheless, because the tendencies normally direct the capacities in certain directions, when we speak about human nature we are pointing to a certain grain in the expressed features, abilities, tendencies, and operations of persons.

the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment of many religions by humans to conform with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform with their times of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.

God remains powerful, but power — the capacity to influence reality or bring about significant effects — is redefined through the divine decision to remain defenseless in the face of our own human use of power in order to oppress:

From what we have already said about prayer, it is clear that the prayer - situation is one which is supremely relevant to the fulfillment of the highest human potentiality (e.g., envisaging of ideal possibilities) and which calls for the exercise of the distinctively human capacities (e.g., imagination, reflection, deep feeling).

It's a way of saying: If you aren't rich, you probably don't have the aesthetic capacity to enjoy a classical music broadcast or the intelligence to follow a Nova program about the human brain.

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

But the truth is deeper than this... there's something about us, everything we touch as humans has the capacity to go very, very badly wrong and that's the real concern - if we are so great, why is the world such a mess?»

... 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.

Australian economist and ecological thinker H. C. Coombs (1990) has said: «There is nothing divinely ordained about the economic system: it is the product of human ingenuity, effort and capacity to organize and, therefore, can be properly questioned, criticized and, if a better alternative exist, rejected» (p. 143).

Underlying this confidence in reason's capacities are Hartshorne's assumptions that reality has an intelligible and coherent structure, that human reason can know that structure, and that there can be a basic congruence between reality and human ideas or formulations about that reality.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

Minimalist politics, in contrast, avoids the need for elabourated conceptions of the human good and only require general judgements about the needs, desires, capacities, opportunities and resources that are of fundamental importance.

At some point in his life, the First Man reasoned about ways to improve the productivity of his Labor towards meeting the bare necessities of life to free up some of his time for leveraging his human capacity for abstract thought towards Capital purposes, which could be used to improve productivity further which would free up more time which would etc, etc, etc..

«This study suggests Americans» are largely cautious about using emerging technologies in ways that push human capacities beyond what's been possible before.»

Scientists are particularly curious about differences in brain size, since adult Neandertals tend to have a cranial capacity of about 1,500 cubic centimeters and modern day humans have a cranial capacity of about 1,350 cubic centimeters.

«Well, the way I think about chunking is it's any shortcutting strategy or mnemonic device that would allow an animal, be it human or otherwise, to increase their memory capacity and improve recall.»

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Chhuman capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social ChHuman Evolution and Social Change.

While the benefits of technology's expanding reach are abundant, many serious thinkers — including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates — have expressed fundamental concerns about the possibility that machines could come to exceed human capacity for thinking.

Its spherical wave front, expanding like a ripple from a disturbance in a pool of water and inadvertently carrying the news that human beings have achieved the capacity for interstellar discourse, envelops about 20 new stars each year.

«I think about chunking as any shortcutting strategy or mnemonic device that would allow an animal, be it human or otherwise, to increase its memory capacity and improve recall,» Delgado said.

These highly successful early bipedal hominins such as Ardipithecus ramidus or Australopithecus afarensis, were nevertheless relatively small - brained, with a cranial capacity of about 450cm3 compared with modern humans with over 1,500 cm3.

«The human brain varies in size from about 700cc to about 2000cc» he says on p 83 [therefore a fossil with a capacity of only 700cc is a perfectly normal human, see?]

While the data answer many questions about such issues as Neanderthal language capacity and the genes they passed onto humans through interbreeding, we're still a long way from being able to resurrect one.

The course, which is a follow - up to the inaugural course held in 2015, will bring together students and leaders in the field from around the world to learn about the determinants of regenerative capacity, the causes of biological aging and strategies for applying what is learned to improve human health and advance regenerative medicine.

As most of the adult cranial capacity is reached by age 10 or 11, it is likely that the adult ECV of WT 15000 would be no more than about 1000 - 1050cc, which is still well within the modern human range of about 800 - 2000cc.19 On the same page Jue points out that a brain capacity of 1400cc applies to the Vertesszöllos erectus specimen which is dated at around 350kya (kiloyears ago = thousands of years).

The island of Flores, Indonesia, was the discovery site of fossil adult humans just three feet tall with a cranial capacity of about 380 cubic centimeters.

The idea goes something like this: human beings typically utilize only about 10 % of their cerebral capacity (not true), so what would happen if a person could open up all the unused neural pathways and access 100 %?

He's a brain scientist with some wacky ideas about what humans could do with the untapped 90 % of their cerebral capacity.

The next big question, of course, is whether director / writer / star John Krasinski will be back (in some capacity) for the sequel to the thriller about humans dealing with a post-apocalyptic world where creatures that hunt via sound have been picking off the population.

And whether or not you sauntered back into the daylight thinking those films had had anything meaningful to say about the human capacity for violence, you had to admit it was hard to shake their crude, violent images out of your head.

He is certainly a filmmaking entity who can afford, through a multiplex - ready event, to pursue his curiosity about what it means for the human brain to be used at 100 % capacity.

«In the streets in Yemen where daily life is beyond difficult, I've learned about the almost unimaginable capacity for the human spirit...

While not analyzing item response data, he may be found thinking about the implications for social science of the sudden increase in our capacity to measure human DNA and the promise and pitfalls associated with how this new data may change our understanding of human behavior.

Furthermore, it encompasses the understanding of key concepts and principles of science, the capacity for scientific ways of thinking, the knowledge that the study of science is a human enterprise, and an understanding of what that implies about its limitations.

She was unflinchingly positive about the human capacity for goodness, allowing the petty criminals she supervised to get away with nearly anything on her watch.

If the Anthropocene is no less than the beginning of the end of the Earth's capacity to sustain human life, and neoliberal systems of (dis) order have done so much to accelerate our current state of emergency while disguising its real impact, how does one make art about a condition that is so structurally resistant to full - on exposure?

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

He is also interested to ask questions «about the artistic image and its capacity to observe socio - cultural landscapes and human geographies.»

So be cautious about mentally foreclosing the human capacity to surprise.

Human societies have, through the centuries, often developed the capacity to adapt to environmental change, and some knowledge about the implications of climate change adaptation for sustainable development can thus be deduced from historical analogues (Diamond, 2004; Easterling et al., 2004).

My original motivation in creating the flatland model began with the idea that humans are indeed deluded about their own capacities.

Meanwhile both the emissions and the sink capacity of the biosphere increased (there are newer references, but my computer still is in repair...), but the terrestrial sinks don't exceed more than about 1 / 4th of the human emissions.

«It's also about human interactions, ingenuity, and capacity to solve problems.»

The natural variability in sink capacity is around + / - 2 GtC, quite constant over the years, while the human emissions increased from 1.5 to 8 GtC / year and the average increase in the atmosphere followed with about 53 % of the emissions.

See «Ecological Footprints and Bio-Capacity: Essential Elements in Sustainability Assessment» by William E. Rees: «humanity had already «overshot» the long - term human carrying capacity of the Earth by about 20 % in 1999 — the whole planet is in deficit.

In HL it was held that the detention, under the common law doctrine of necessity, of a man with autism, who lacked the mental capacity to make decisions about his care and living arrangements, amounted to a violation of his rights under Art 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention).