The most crucial learning to be sought in such a situation is the recognition of the fundamental difference
between human judgments and divine judgment: that human achievements pass quickly while only the divine judgment is eternal and penetrates everything hidden.
Not exact matches
This is also seen in the difference
between those who see Jesus as in some way embodying a universal principle, as is the case of theologians in the tradition of Schleiermacher, and those, like the great Swiss theologian Karl Barth, who stressed that
humans can in no way sit in
judgment on God's revelation.
And a society in which each of us is invited to treat our years of decline as less valuable than our more vigorous, productive years may find it difficult to get away from the comparative
judgments between human beings that Daniels himself is eager to avoid.
But once this simple removal of our own consciences from the sphere of
judgment has been shaken, once we see the conflict
between good and evil in its true depth in every
human heart, a deeper view of history must be found if we are to have a hope based on solid foundations.
There is an irreducible conflict, a radical opposition,
between the creative operation of each of these qualities, corresponding each time to a thetic16
judgment, and the ambition that
human consciousness can have of verifying them for itself, by itself.
Bultmann is inclined to the
judgment that there exists a substantial agreement
between the Christian understanding and a philosophy of existence not orientated upon the event of Christ (Heidegger and others) on the negative side — i.e. the fallenness (Verfallenheit) of
human life.
In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction
between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of
human rights, transcendent
judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in
human individuals and institutions.
Accordingly,
human choice must decide not only «what is true but what criteria shall be used to determine the truth, and what standards shall be used in choosing
between competing criteria, and what
judgments shall be employed in deciding on the standards ad infinitum» (Van Cleve Morris, Philosophy and the American School).
It's built around «big data,» and it thus features the blurring we've seen before
between human and machine input and
judgment.
The scientists will make their estimates based on their
judgments of the most likely set of
human activities
between now and then, as evidenced by our behavior up to this point (Verdi, you bring us back to earth in this area).
The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned
judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of
human children who are constantly wavering
between one idea and another.
This
judgment has also come along at a time when the European Court of
Human Rights» decision is awaited in the four conjoined cases of Ladele, Eweida, Macfarlane and Chaplin, all of which involve issues of religious freedom and two of which involve the same potential conflict
between the right not to be discriminated against on grounds of sexual orientation and the right to religious freedom (see our posts here, here and here).
This was suggested, for instance, by Judge Malinverni of the European Court of
Human Rights in the Nada
judgment of September 2012, in which he proposed «a distinction
between the Charter itself, as the primary legislation of the United Nations, and the Security Council resolutions, which, although binding (Article 25), may be regarded more as secondary or subordinate UN legislation».
Designed by the Office of the Prosecutor
between 2003 and 2005, the LTD contains over 57,000 documents, including national legislation, national cases of core international crimes, international cases and legislation, all preparatory works of the ICC, its Statute, rules, regulations,
judgments, decisions and orders, and relevant international and regional
human rights decisions.
Delivering the main
judgment in Commrs Metropolitan Police v DSD & Anor [2018] UKSC 11 this week Lord Kerr said: «There was disagreement
between us as to whether liability under the
Human Rights Act arose only where there had been systematic failures or whether deficiencies in the actual investigation would be enough to make the police liable.