Sentences with phrase «actual human person»

Making it personal also means addressing the letter to an actual human person.

So it's refreshing when «the people» finally put their foot down and declare that, judicially, there's something that a corporation can't do and is only reserved for actual human persons.

Not exact matches

Even with 100 people — actual human players — combat is sparse.

«Dan will help you put your damn phone in your pocket, look people in the eye, and build actual human relationships at work.

Despite the fact that these virtual humans were not representations of actual people, they found that participants» performance of the novel task was impaired when they were led to believe that the virtual audience consisted of avatars, but not when they were framed as agents.

As such, the current literature on virtual humans» nonverbal cues would greatly benefit from studies that incorporate avatars that are controlled by actual people.

Again, the problem is that «Christ» has connotations that Jesus was divine, whereas the actual words used, «anointed one» simply refer to any human called upon by God to aid the Jewish people.

Our culture (through social media, reality TV, celebrity gossip, etc.) has so profoundly commodified people — actual human beings — it's become a phenomenon we hardly even notice anymore.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

We are human beings, and we relate to one another better when we stop expecting the other person to behave in a prescribed, programmed way but instead talk openly with one another about our actual desires, preferences, hopes, and expectations.

It is a painful tale, burdened with an inexorable logic of defeat at the hands of a racist society — we «know» from the beginning that terrible things are in store — but illuminated by another logic, that of grace, by no means so certain, for it operates in secret with persons (Kumalo and the elder Jarvis) whose formation by it is in terms of the gradual and ambiguous growth of actual human development.

But Whitehead goes decisively beyond every previous form of the Aristotelian conception of unity when he posits, at least as a genuine potentiality in every «actual entity,» what in the human person manifests itself as «spirit» in its full actuality.

(That Whitehead ends up dissolving the human person into a multiplicity of «societies» of «actual entities» is another question.)

After all, in the Holocaust they were killing actual human beings, people who were undeniably, not just potentially or marginally, real people with real rights.

That is, when men had learned to understand God as a person and his will as a body of moral teaching, they continued to recognize his supreme importance for human life, but his actual present effectiveness became a matter of belief rather than of immediate apprehension.

That Jesus was fully human does mean that the actual occasions constituting Jesus as a living person were not in any instance the actual entity God or, if God is conceived as a living person, the actual occasions constituting the divine life.

Hartshorne has no patience for those holding a genetic view of personhood, who claim that the potential represented in a fertilized human egg cell is equivalent to an actual person.

Sure, if you can compare physical limitations between two people who desperately want to communicate with each other, to a supreme being who, for what ever reason (completely unknown to everyone), has decided to never communicate with the human who desperately wants some actual communication.

But for Marxists, transcendence is the actual human experience that the human person, though belonging to nature, is different from the things and animals and that the human being, able to progress always, is never complete.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

On the other hand, an electron is a succession of actual occasions, and so is the flow of experience that can be identified as a human person.

And yet the actual situation of human existence is one in which the self is not really free, one in which people often do not have a clear sense of who they are, and one in which true personality is lost in various forms of enslavement to convention or mass - mindedness.

And each human person is towards his future, as he moves in the direction of realizing or making actual the «subjective aim» which is his on the basis of that «initial aim» which has been provided for him in his beginnings.

By falling to acknowledge the natural human openness to promise, our theologies have sometimes lost touch with the actual lives and dreams of real people.

Moreover, each human being must be constituted of many millions of these «unit - happenings» or «experiences,» because Hartshorne affirms that persons have about ten new ones per second and that they fit together so smoothly that the transitions between them go largely unnoticed.12 And inasmuch as everything in the universe is composed of similar unit - experiences or actual entities, the number of them that occurs at any given instant of time (if we may legitimately speak of such instants) must be stupendously large.

Canada's pending legislation on euthanasia and assisted suicide raises a question: What shall we call people who are legally involved in the destruction of human life — particularly those who do the actual killing?

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

But as a reasonable and caring person I can honestly tell you that these poor fanatics and their embarrassingly idiotic claims are, to me no different than any human being who has one shred of actual faith in the bible or any supernatural «relationship» with creator theology.

In contrast, the social - science approach seeks structural and cultural contexts for personages in the past by studying the actual behavior of contemporary people with similar social structures, values and human types.

It is not a moral imperative that all possibilities of human persons become actual persons.

While the debates rage on about whether Noah is biblical enough, Heaven is For Real true enough, and God is Not Dead profitable enough, Philomena delivers a quiet, understated, and powerful portrayal of the actual human experience, where clear - cut lines between good and evil, heroes and villains, right and wrong might be good «story-wise» but don't reflect the reality most people of faith actually live in.

When real crimes happen, and when there are actual, human victims, people need to get punished.

Obama, by contrast, EXPANDED the electorate, in part by using data to identify people who were being left out... and then sending actual humans to talk to them one - on - one to persuade them to help the campaign.

Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

[Do] most people think this is really a completely different species, or are most people subscribing to the idea that this is a human with an actual disease?

They also found a statistically significant, but weaker, correlation between people's genes for BMI and actual BMI in partners: People had actively chosen partners with similar genes to themselves, the team reports today in Nature Human Behapeople's genes for BMI and actual BMI in partners: People had actively chosen partners with similar genes to themselves, the team reports today in Nature Human BehaPeople had actively chosen partners with similar genes to themselves, the team reports today in Nature Human Behaviour.

«The problem is that brain cells from actual people don't survive well in a dish, so we need to engineer human cells in the lab,» explained Gan, senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes.

I'll go with Human - believing that unerneath all the «show» is an actual person.

A lot of people who prefer to go for online dating, especially singles over 40 would have done so because of their fear of actual human contact, and you don't want to impose an intimidating factor from the get - go.

Think about it, you've only met the person online, maybe you've spoken to him or her on the phone, but nothing compares to actual human - to - human connection.

A software robot aka «bot» (bots are used to mimic actual human conversation) are specifically designed to send fake computer generated instant messages (that look legit) to people who join hookup sites like BoneAMilf.com.

Of the new Ghostbusters film, there are actual, real human people (likely bearded) who have claimed that recasting the central line - up of the original film as women is equivalent to squatting over their misspent childhoods and relaxing any and all of the groin muscles.

It is by no means an unworthy film, shedding light as it does on an issue still with us today, but it treats the people on screen more as dramatic constructs than as actual human beings with their own agency.

One fun piece came out during the very - human live - action Quidditch World Cup, a game in which actual people run around a «pitch» with capes and brooms, reenacting the game from the world of Harry Potter.

Hand Signals — Some people choose deaf dog training that uses actual human sign language while others prefer signals created specifically for canine commands.

Always tried to bubble down for personal attacks when I'd see anyone doing that because if you have to resort to name calling, you don't deserve to be in a public forum w / grown ups & actual human beings, but those people never got marked & kept all of their bubbles.

The online was entirely stable in my time playing it today during the game's launch, and the races against people were fun because actual humans performed way better than the AI did.

If you happen to prefer the company of an actual live human being, though I'm not sure why you'd ever prefer that over a freaking BEAR, then the entire game can be played on co-op with a friend or just a completely random person.

Players feel that Rockstar is too focused on gimmicky or themed items, rather than letting people dress like actual human beings.

The act of discovering new places, people, and things is pretty much the closest analogue a game can create to actual, y ’ know, human life.