Sentences with phrase «basic human concern»

In the light of the Exodus tradition and its annual commemoration, Israel's thinkers were led to reinterpret the earlier tribal traditions and myths in such a way as to show how freedom from bondage is a basic human concern.

Not exact matches

In the political order, there are few concepts as important as basic human rights, and our obligation to protect them, especially where they are being grossly violated, is a primary ethical concern.

In fact, theologians who write about ecological concerns are united in their opinion that a holistic view of reality is basic to a responsible relation between humans and nature.

Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.

His concern will be compliance to a code and not basic human values.

Stapledon thus brings together his basic concerns for a viable community and a metaphysic as his narrator questions the ultimate meaning of the only good he is able to perceive — the symbiotic love of two human beings.

However, says Cobb, (and rightly so), Whitehead's view does give support to a Christian concern for the underprivileged, since lack of education and basic human needs limits «the rational self - direction of conduct.»

We need partners who share our deep concerns about homelessness, hunger, environmental pollution and basic human rights.

While it may well be tax dollars which support institutional and community care and all the other manifold responses to human need on the part of our society, the inherent motivation derives from Christian understanding, and the policy and guidelines reflect a basic Christian concern, Regrettably, there is no direct ratio any longer — the gears do not engage smoothly!

Put simply, this has to mean that where there is deep and urgent concern for basic human needs, for food and clothing and health care and education, there can not be the requisite peace for the experience of world consciousness.

When we humans were primitive thousands of years ago, we survived because nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because of many synthetic products our existence had endangered nature, that awareness developed a kind of concern for us to correct some of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect of reality, in the spiritual part of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness of our existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

All the i ≤ lajor world religions advocate a basic detachment from ephemeral realities and a loving concern for all humans and for nature.

Persons of faith should be deeply concerned about the current surveillance flap not because privacy is an absolute end in itself but rather because it points to and safeguards something else even more basic and fundamental, namely, human dignity.

They oppose the coalition of interests, calculations, fears or ignorance, with a concern which subordinates every principle to human dignity, and which begins with basic respect for life as such.

Ashley at Let Me Entertain You is concerned about women's rights and wrote yesterday about a proposed regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services «that could seriously undermine access to basic reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion.»

Advocacy is political, even when it is about something seemingly so basic as protecting human beings in need (for comments on the links between liberalism as a political ideology and MSF's concern for individual human life, see Scott - Smith 2013).

American Anthropological Association (AAA): The American Anthropological Association issued a Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights in which it affirmed «concern -LSB-...] whenever human difference is made the basis for the denial of basic human rights.&rHuman Rights in which it affirmed «concern -LSB-...] whenever human difference is made the basis for the denial of basic human rights.&rhuman difference is made the basis for the denial of basic human rights.&rhuman rights.»

Erica has worked with hundreds of dogs and their human families on issues ranging from house training and basics to reactivity, aggression, separation anxiety, and other behavioral concerns.

Or, alternatively, they can look at a photographic database of disfigured war veterans and copy from there, assuming they're not concerned with matters like «ethics» or «basic human decency.»

History's subjective bent is also a strong theme within Gary's work, and the simple nature of chalk lends itself to his artistic concerns — especially in its suggestion of basic communication, the human hand, education systems and of easily erasable or altered information.»

Rather than see functionality and art as different or even oppositional concerns, responding to the basic necessities of human life is a primary element of Zittel's art, which in the past has included sculptures and installations to be used and lived in.

73 Although the SBC, which is the basic legislation in the matter, states in Article 12 (4) thereof, that the aim of such surveillance is to apprehend individuals crossing the border illegally, it does not contain any rules concerning the measures which border guards are authorised to apply against persons or ships when they are apprehended and subsequently — such as the application of enforcement measures, the use of force or conducting the persons apprehended to a specific location — or even measures against persons implicated in human trafficking.

There's a multitude of concerns to deal with that stem from a basic human need for reassurance when experiencing big change, compounded by a feeling of having no control.

The quintessential concern of the human rights enterprise is to raise to a status of dignity and equality each powerless person — persons who for reasons such as law, poverty, race, religion or gender are unable to achieve dignity, fairness, basic equality and justice...

The International Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples defines self - determination as the basic human right of indigenous peoples to make their own decisions on issues that concern them.

Because my background concerns basic and applied aspects of groups in various domains (e.g., legal, organizational, sport, military, business, counseling, health, human factors, finance), I believe that our division can both broaden our membership base as well as build better relationships with scholars in other disciplines in ways that integrate the field while enhancing our shared identity.