Sentences with phrase «called human life value»

In insurance parlance this is the sum assured and the financial estimate of the value of your life is called Human Life Value or HLV.

According to this method, the amount of life insurance coverage one should buy is directly proportionate to the economic value, otherwise called human life value (HLV).

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For example, there has never been a time when the value of human life has been so highly regarded and when what are loosely called «human» values are the sole guiding principles for most people.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

The original UM document called one body of mainline Protestants to affirm at the most basic level that all forms of human life are worth incalculably more than their industrial, market, scientific or even therapeutic use value.

Without in any way wishing to ignore what has been called the «tragic sense of life», let us at this point affirm the positive values of human existence, finite though it is.

In A Case for Irony, the text of his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2009 at Harvard University, the philosopher Jonathan Lear argues that irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good human Human Values, delivered in 2009 at Harvard University, the philosopher Jonathan Lear argues that irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good human human life.

what a hypocracy, «Judaism places ultimate value on human life» they prefer life of one killer (they called soldier) over thousands of innocent palestians, that proves historical curse of God on sons of israel, they will never get a land on this earth but if get some (that they did with unjustice) will never get peace on it.

Muslims also call non-muslims «donkeys and pigs» so I don't think they should be talking about the value of human life when they also send their children as suicide bombers.

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

Ken Loach's latest, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is one of the most important films of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.

On a light - hearted note, I would have called the «human life value» approach the «income replacement» approach or something.

Justice is a commodity with a value that changes on the semi-private market in human life we call the criminal courts.