The only way from the mountain of vision is down to the plains populated
by ordinary human unhappiness and enjoyment.
The deciders believed that these principles of «natural law» are not changeable
by ordinary humans.
The CUE electronic interface is a hub for communication, entertainment, and even driving performance that is at once incredibly sophisticated yet not impenetrable to comprehension
by ordinary humans.
Not exact matches
And finally, an important observation is furnished
by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from
ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the
human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15
A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier
by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of
human law and
ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»
Although we are quite in the dark about the why of
human disease and suffering,
ordinary observation can show us that the result of their occurrence is
by no means necessarily evil.
About as far from «arbitrary» as an event could be since they were noticed and measured
by ordinary, untaught
humans for dozens of centuries and led us to further scientific discoveries.
While the former aims at the restoration of «true man,» «original man,» the goal of the latter was the transcendence of the
human condition, the acquisition of some degree of freedom from the needs or laws that determine
ordinary human life
by assimilation to a radically different state of being [The Heating Journey (Pantheon, 1973) p. 17].
Instead, we shall pass from the first to the fifth way, showing in each case how the existence of God can be known with certainty
by reflecting on
ordinary human experience.
Consequently, our acceptance of supernatural faith (
by grace alone) is in harmony with modern historical reasoning and philosophical reflection on the
ordinary human transmission of knowledge.
For Niebuhr, this is the problem of the transformation of our
ordinary human faiths, and he addresses it
by pointing to the pattern of Jesus Christ in our history.
And though in the Fourth Gospel the notes of agonizing struggle, or even of
ordinary human weakness and suffering, are muted, if not hushed, and the death is, as Vincent Taylor says, «no longer a (Greek word) but a shining stairway
by which the Son of God ascends to his Father,» (The Atonement in New Testament Teaching, p. 215.
This realisation was not one that
human beings are able to reach of their own accord, anymore than they can distinguish, without revelation,
ordinary bread from that which has been consecrated
by a priest.
It suggests that, in addition to the contempt shown for
human life in these practices, they are also very bad medicine: «One is struck
by the fact that, in any other area of medicine,
ordinary professional ethics would never allow a medical procedure which involved such a high number of failures and fatalities» (DP 15).
Ordinary human beings, full of flaws, sins, humanness, but found
by God.
The pre-understanding (often overlooked
by ordinary Christians but obvious to Bible scholars) is the fact that Scripture itself was given to
humans in particular historical and socio - cultural contexts.
Hence the meaning of what is said can be illustrated
by an
ordinary example from
human experience.
In the course of
human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences
by placing them in a larger than
ordinary context.
They are impelled to operations, which
by their character and measure exceed all
ordinary human standards.
At a meeting in Geneva this week, the WHO asked pharmaceutical companies and governments for more antiviral drugs and
ordinary flu vaccine to prevent chicken handlers being infected
by human flu at the same time as bird flu.
While it is true that researchers have induced heart disease in some animals
by giving them extremely large dosages of oxidized or rancid cholesterol — amounts ten times that found in the
ordinary human diet — several population studies squarely contradict the cholesterol - heart disease connection.
Rather, it speaks to the frailties of
ordinary human beings riven
by competing desires and convictions, giving us an ending that is unexpected, moving and powerful.
A great film, depicts some real characters of
ordinary people in the biggest genocide
by starvation in
human history, perpetrated
by Kremlin.
Such a national debate is long overdue given the huge amount of
human misery that has been caused
by the level of overvaluation that we as a society permitted to take place in the late 1990s (with both the experts and the
ordinary investors listening to their advice sharing in the blame).
To shine a light on the extraordinary work done
by ordinary dogs and underscore the remarkable power of the
human - animal bond, American Humane Association created the American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards, an annual, year - long search for America's bravest heroes on both ends of the leash.
In DYSTORIA, you play as... well, yourself, presumably — an unnamed,
ordinary human whose only defined trait is a penchant for videogames, abducted
by aliens and placed into a special flight school called «DYSTORIA.»
She sews obsessively
by hand, documenting the transgressions of public figures, celebrities and
ordinary people who are flawed, vulnerable and
human.
Using the market as both a geographic and ideological center, Heading Southwest [About Practice # 2] aims to shed light on the macro meaning of the Essex Market's inner and parallel social functions, as a metaphor of a universal need: the
human desire to discover and find the irrationality within reality, the extraordinary within
ordinary and the mythology within facts, in turn revealing a fragile desire to fictionalize reality
by threading together a narrative that feels more impressive than the real.
On the walls, photographs of major dance works from the 1960s and early 1970s are accompanied
by the artist's thoughts on how to create «
ordinary,» unpretentious dance from the basics of
human activity.
During the early 1920s he collaborated with the writer Blaise Cendrars on films and designed sets and costumes for performances
by Rolf de Maré's Ballets Suédois; in 1924 he completed his first film, Ballet mécanique, which was neither abstract nor narrative but a series of seemingly unrelated images (a woman's teeth and lips, machines,
ordinary objects, and routine
human activities).
Rather than focussing on the important but inherently incremental developments in the science behind the issue, the media would do us all a favor
by maintaining a consistent message regarding the underlying issue (i.e.
human action is causing climate change, and climate change has the potential to do great harm to our way of life) and focus on how
ordinary people can take steps in their own lives to help address the problem in ways that don't require inordinate sacrifice.
Inspired
by the works of Buckminster Fuller and Yona Friedman, Cloud Cities offers an unconventional glimpse into how
humans may situate themselves in between earth and sky, challenging
ordinary ideas, boundaries and relationships with space and how it can be occupied.
Data correlating «
ordinary science intelligence» (as measured
by a standard nine - question test), political ideology, and tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «
human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.
Marx failed to adequately appreciate the value of the
human capital possessed
by ordinary people individually.
According the words their
ordinary meaning was also consistent with respecting the respondent's right to respect for his private and family life as required
by Art 8 of the European Convention on
Human Rights.
We will face this problem as long as we try to protect
human rights
by ordinary legislation.
[13] When read in the context that Professor St. Lewis had agreed to undertake a review of the SAC report which alleged systemic racism in the academic fraud process and that she was providing her evaluation of that report as a lawyer, law professor and expert in the field of
Human Rights and Research, the words in their natural and
ordinary meaning would more than likely be considered defamatory
by the
ordinary fair - minded individual.
The event, backed
by actress Joanna Lumley and
human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, aims to raise awareness about the proposed # 350m cuts to family and civil law and the impact they will have on
ordinary people's lives.
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By fostering intensive collaboration between philosophers, religious thinkers, and psychologists, we will investigate whether self - transcendence helps to make
ordinary cultivation and exercise of virtue a source of deep happiness and meaning in
human life.