Sentences with phrase «as human capacity»

A relational view might describe these as the human capacity to receive and the divine capacity to give.

Not exact matches

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

One thing to watch out for is that as we humans start to disinfect more and more of our environment, our body's natural capacity to fight pathogens appears to be declining.

«If the president wants to make an immediate impact on Venezuela to stop these human rights abuses and restore the situation, he's got the ability to,» Hamm told Bloomberg in an interview in his capacity as head of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance.

Look, no human being has anywhere near the capacity to make the great decisions, as great collective decision - making.

«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.

This comparison is not as outrageous as it seems: Like monasticism, science is an enterprise with a superhuman aim whose achievement is forever beyond the capacities of the flawed humans who aspire toward it.

LOL: The Christian perspective is that God does indeed exist, and because of that, all human beings (including the ones who deny His very existence) are still endowed with some of the gifts He's given us — such as some capacity to reason, create, and love, though all imperfectly.

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.

Furthermore, the patients may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) to have a mega microscopic brain rather than to have a regular size one but only serves as an extra burden for a half human like them that has the intellectual capacity as to monkeys.

He believed that reason was ultimately limited to solve social injustice because our rational capacities as human beings are, at their root, self - serving.

«Man's ability to see is in decline,» argues Pieper in that essay, meaning not, of course, the physiological sensitivity of the human eye, but «the spiritual capacity to perceive the visible reality as it truly is.»

I believe in the power of my own destiny and the human capacity for love kindness as well as the deep human ability for hate and cruelty.

, human beings have specific features, capacities, powers, limits, and tendencies, and human nature is defined by these as expressed by human beings taken as a whole.

Still, we can justifiably say that human beings are naturally religious — as a matter of real, natural potentiality, capacity, and tendency — while at the same time acknowledging that very many human beings and even some cultures are not particularly religious at all.

That's how I hope Christians today see it as well — not as a lightning rod of the culture wars, to be avoided or embraced as some sort of statement, but as a pleasurable gift of a good God, who made water, yeast, barley and hops, and human beings with the creative capacity to brew up something wonderful.

While we do not claim that human beings are enslaved by sin, we are aware of the great capacity that humans have for evil as well as for good.

We are accustomed to regard a man as an individual of the species «man,» a being endowed with definite capacities, the development of which brings the human ideal in him to realization — of course with variations in each individual.

• the capacity to reach objective and universal truth as well as valid metaphysical knowledge; • the unity of body and soul in man; • the dignity of the human person; • relations between nature and freedom; • the importance of natural law and of the «sources of morality,»... • and the necessary conformity of civil law to moral law.

Jesus expresses no conception of a human ideal, no thought of a development of human capacities, no idea of something valuable in man as such, no conception of the spirit in the modern sense.

But we human beings are created with an irrepressible disposition toward the future, as well as a capacity to recall the past.

Rather, it is a variation of these along with the demonry of personality itself, of man's moral and rational capacities in tension with the sensitivities of spirit as a higher dimension of freedom and goodness which grasp him as a novelty of grace within his human structure, judging him, yet summoning him to that which is beyond his own human order of good.

The human capacity to author life and skip all over the genetic alphabet raises theological questions, just as does the human capacity to destroy life on a grand scale and actually put ourselves, for the first time, in a position to be uncreators.

Amid our self - structuring dependent origination, which in Zen is the very nature of the true self, we ought to respect as much as possible the capacities of others, both nonhuman and human, to originate dependently in their own self - structuring ways.

Arguments that ground our dignity as humans in our capacities exclude those human beings who have either never possessed such rationality, or who have lost it (for example, through degenerative conditions) and have no chance to acquire it again.

Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.

If you ignore one or the other you have limited your capacity as a human.

Holy schnikees are they real, and really scary as they have multiple high capacity guns and are just salivating to use them to kill another human being just to prove how much they love their jeebus.

What seems at first like an expansion of our compassion — for those who lack these capacities — very quickly becomes a restriction of the scope of human community as they become candidates for elimination.

The failures and vast human costs of modern «salvation myths» are now well known, as is the capacity of democratic capitalism to raise up the poor, protect human rights, and allow for unprecedented freedom of thought and action.

Whitehead's method, in part, is to analyze these occasions of subjective experience in order to find factors capable of being generalized into principles applicable to all actual entities: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have... tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 172).

The phrase «the image of God» means more than mere reflection as in a mirror; it means the active and energizing capacity given to humans, as created entities, to live with integrity as the «created second» of the God who is making them.

Transcendence is defined as the reappropriation of the world from the standpoint of the human capacity to be the subject of projects.

Kaplan maintained: «The human mind, as Kant has shown, can not really solve the problem of absolute beginnings, and identifying creativity with transformation marks the limit of its capacity (MOG 61).

But because this human life is shaped by human powers and capacities, it invites us to «think in terms of comparative degrees of human distinction or dignity — and of some as more dignified than others.»

This is the human capacity for self - transcendence, which he identifies as the foundation of our human dignity.

Certainly nobody could deny that when they are presented in this fashion they have the capacity to force all of us to regard human existence, human decisions, and human actions as matters of very great importance.

Jesus» death culminates a process of mutual, internal relatedness between Jesus and God that stretches the human capacity to receive and the divine capacity to give as fully as possible.

So the death of Jesus has a definite contribution to make to God in terms of God's experience of the human capacity to receive as well as the divine capacity to be received, i.e., to have the gift that is offered actually received.

What, you might ask, are the capacities that make a human being also qualify as a person, as a distinct human being who also possesses the right to life?

W. Widick Schroeder observes that if coercion is defined as «the capacity to act in ways violating others,» then «persuasion and coercion interplay in any human community» (PPT 70).

This is the sort of experience Whitehead is referring to when he writes: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have, with Locke, tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 112).

If systematized these would fall into three main types: the beauty, sustenance, and orderliness of nature on which our lives depend; social relations in the family, community, nation, and all our past which have nourished and fashioned us; and, less obviously but essentially, the human capacity of thought, feeling, and will by which to live and act as morally responsible beings.

This is human power, chiefly techno - economic power, sufficient to outstrip earth's capacity to restore itself on terms hospitable to life as we know it.

Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope, those two essential characteristics of human existence which Greek antiquity ignored altogether, discounting the keeping of faith as a very uncommon and not too important virtue and counting hope among the evils of illusion in Pandora's box.

In brief, social change — this rapid, turbulent, accelerating scene — is more than a professional challenge; it is a total human challenge, and to deal with it as human beings, be we professionals or nonprofessionals, we must unashamedly call upon the full range of our human capacities and interests — scientific, artistic, and religious.

The recognition of the centrality of an evolutionary perspective means that man needs to be viewed as a biospiritual creature who requires a delicate balance of favorable environmental conditions as the necessary prerequisite to any possible flowering of his unique human capacities.

According to Julian, then, as beloved human beings created in the image of the Trinity, we already, right now, at this moment, have our resources for the year ahead: the capacities truly to see God who is the truth, to contemplate God who is wisdom, and to delight in God who is love.

Turned inward upon our human smallness, we neither know nor even wish to discover within us the void whose capacity will grow as it becomes filled with the fullness of God... All too often indeed we do not discern it.