Sentences with phrase «as it ends in»

Critics say a focus on engagement as the paramount metric and on connecting people as an end in itself are what made Facebook such a powerful medium for disinformation.

Some Mattel shareholders were angry enough to sue over the sale, as it ended in disaster.

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

Recall the earlier point that parents of rescuers laid far less emphasis on obedience as an end in itself than those of non-rescuers.

Deliberately missing from this list are such goods as money, which is merely instrumental to achieving more basic goods, and pleasure, which is to be sought not as an end in itself but as a benefit incidental to a rational end, in the way that sexual pleasure is achieved through marriage.

Her own assessment of the Cold War was to see the anticommunist crusade as an end in itself embedded in McCarthyism, which was an indicator of the growth of populist lawlessness and a breakdown of the federalist balance of powers.

These «forces which destroy culture» impair the work's «truth to the material», its «level», and deal the final blow to the «work as an end in itself».

Kant's second form of the categorical imperative states that we should always treat persons as ends in themselves never merely as means to our ends.

It extols freedom as an end in itself.

Was Jim Elliott's mission a failure as it ended in his death?

We are not cultivating an inner state as an end in itself.

Economic growth could be looked upon as an end in itself.

The action is ecstatic in the sense that it stands outside the causal nexus of means and ends; it juts out religiously as an end in itself.

The life of the mind is available to be enjoyed, and enjoyed for its own sake, as an end in itself.

But if land in this broad sense has value as an end in itself, then the economic theory based on land as commodity can not be acceptable.

It's not exclusively Christians who think that pursing happiness as an end in itself is a fruitless, dissatisfying task.

Rather, people are respected as the end in themselves.

Malia acknowledges that Nazi terror was distinctive: Hitler's genocidal policy was meant to exterminate a religious and cultural group, the Jews, as an end in and of itself.

But what is important is not that certain books be read as an end in themselves, but that they be read because of their relationship to other books in a tradition and community that make such a conversation significant.

lives of all people — given the fact that we do some things as ends in themselves without ulterior motive or outside design, freely entering into such activity within its own time (a playtime) and its own space (a playground) and its own order (a playbook)-- it is surprising that we understand play so poorly.

Maybe Kant is right, and we should rely on the formal autonomy of rational agents who see each other as ends in themselves.

For Buber the concern for the other as an end in himself grows out of one's direct relation to this other and to that higher end which he serves through the fulfillment of his created uniqueness.

Moreover, even an evangelical consensus should not be viewed as an end in itself, but rather as a tool for the church to use in the strengthening of its faith and life.

From a vantage point within the faith, disestablishing the church can not be justified as an end in itself; it can only be a means, a strategy, a mode of transition to some better end.

Postconservative evangelicals believe that doctrine matters — but not as an end in itself.

All of these world views and the syncretistic Christian combination of them had long been peppered with pithy slogans, golden rules, words of wisdom, etc., which range from Socrates» Know thyself to Christ's If you lose the world, you gain it and on to Nothing in excess and Treat every human as an end in itself.

This reminds me of Kant's idea that «people should be treated as ends in themselves rather than a means to an end» — the basis of his ideas of personhood, dignity and human rights.

Nussbaum is not at all afraid of speaking in the classic terms of liberal earnestness: she celebrates «the value of humanity as an end in itself,» she encourages empathy and understanding, broad - mindedness, toleration.

Not as the means to an end, but as an end in itself.»

Hence the supreme manifestation of religion was to be found not in personal ethics or in social idealism but in the cultus regarded as an end in itself.

By doing so, he violates a basic tenet of Western morality: To respect man as an end in himself and not to use him as a means to an end.

In the history of art the attempt to achieve realism virtually as an end in itself is a minority report, Greco - Roman classicism and the Renaissance being the lone examples.

Under this category would come the promotion of particular programs, of particular reforms, and of particular moralities, the advocacy of this or that social formula or this or that political solution as ends in themselves.

Unlike the Greeks, the Aramean Christians showed no interest in metaphysics as an end in itself.

Albert Schweitzer's «deed mysticism» (in contrast to a mysticism which regards contemplation as an end in itself) is an illustration of the needed balance.

If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.

They should not be treated merely as means but as ends in themselves.

Moreover, Christians should see that the family can not, contrary to Russell's claim, exist as an end in itself nor by itself provide a sufficient check against pretentious rationalism.

A culture having profound respect for human personality will pursue technology, not as an end in itself but as a means of serving the genuine needs of men.

Thus reality is reduced to appearance as an end in itself.

While utilitarian individualism had no interest in society as an end in itself, it was certainly not unaware of the importance of society.

As has been the case for ages since, they were valued for their sexual uses rather than as ends in themselves.

It is clear from what has been said above, that the anthropological and moral issues aimed at renewing society and state has to be followed as an end in themselves.

3) Self - giving: Though certainly an exalted property of the person, freedom not considered by either Aquinas or Wojtyła as an end in itself.

The first ethical principle is that we should treat subjects as ends in themselves and not merely as means to our own ends.

Her concern is, that in their desire for making converts, people on short - term missions often treat local people merely as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves.

But its finest exemplars, like Jonathan Edwards, never viewed the divine indifference as an end in itself.

Babies made by reproductive technology must be treated as ends in themselves and not merely as means for fulfilling social or parental values.

It is not evil by the definition I use of that word, which is intentionally increasing another's suffering with either blatant disregard or as an end in itself.

We love ourselves more than we love our neighbors and hence repeatedly use our neighbors more as means to our ends than as ends in themselves.