One of the defining
characteristics of humans is our love for carbohydrates.
One of the most prominent
characteristics of humans is the need to socialize.
As for the first part, firms will increasingly have to focus on the somewhat intangible
characteristics of human beings that machines can not substitute for — empathy, judgment, creativity, and so forth.
It could be said a lot more about psychotherapeutic schools and their application methodology, as they are many more, but the objective of this article is just to highlight the primary
characteristics of the human being, its necessities and the benefit of the personal inventory in order to create a proper environment for a healthy interaction with his congeners.
Not exact matches
The idea
of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there
was even a book written about it, «The Myth
of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that certain
human characteristics made going paperless an impossible feat.
Maybe that
's the most
human characteristic of all.
The nation boasts immense
human diversity, with limbs and muscles
of all sizes, so race or genetic
characteristics aren't a valid explanation, said Anirudh Krishna, professor at Duke University, and co-author
of a 2008 paper called «Why do some countries win more Olympic medals?»
It
is common for every trader to see in themselves some
of the
characteristics highlighted in this article; we
are all
human.
That
is the way
of human perversity, a perversity especially
characteristic among intellectuals.
It
is as a creature
of wants that a
human being has acquired, not only other
characteristics that have
been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use
of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.
What could
be more comforting to modern consciousness than to discover that «ultimate concern» and «sin»
are essential and unavoidable
characteristics of the
human condition?
But as a
human being he understands all kinds
of situations, and he
is open to all kinds
of people, including those with different sexual
characteristics.»
When Pope John Paul II spoke on the occasion
of the fiftieth birthday
of the UDHR in 1998, he warned, «Certain shadows however hover over the anniversary, consisting in the reservations
being expressed in relation to two essential
characteristics of the very idea
of human rights: their universality and their indivisibility.»
And he further commends as «the essential
characteristic of human existence... «that man
is an individual and as such
is at once himself and the whole race, in such wise that the whole race has part in the individual, and the individual has part in the whole race» (CD 26).
The way
of touching
is the way back to reality, back to the interpersonal as the
characteristic human way
of becoming a self and
of being in the world.
I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range
of human experience and condemn those biblical passages as the product
of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe
of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary
characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case
of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.
Rather, specifically
human existence
is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence
of occasions which share, by virtue
of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining
characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.
Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability
of se - xual orientation
is that it
is a
human characteristic that
is formed early in life, and
is resistant to change.
However as my exposure to your writing increased I started to think that what you
were describing as «Church» related problems
were in fact fundamental
characteristics of human nature.
Thus, the highly variable
characteristics of both individual
human beings and particular
human societies flow from rather than contradict the idea that we
human beings have a stable nature.
The power
of speech
is a
characteristic human function.
Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability
of sexual orientation
is that it
is a
human characteristic that
is formed early in life, and
is resistant to change.
This
is the
characteristic mood
of our times, in which not even the colossal destructiveness
of two world wars and the possibility
of the third have greatly disturbed our trust in
human achievement.
Both in the secular world and in the church, our
characteristic approach to
human frailty
is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts
of self - acceptance; not an ethic
of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value
of self - actualization.
This too
is accentuated by the speed - up
of our times, though it
is a
characteristic human trait probably as old as humanity.
Two more
characteristic features
of human life
are vital to mention.
I think the
human characteristics of miserable and joyless
is independent
of religious belief.
The moral philosophy
of Western Civilization perceives intrinsic
human equality as an objective truth under which our moral status need not
be earned by possessing favored
characteristics; it comes with the package
of species membership.
Vorhanden, which Heidegger uses
of the peculiar mode
of being characteristic of inanimate objects, as contrasted with responsible
human Dasein, I have translated by «tangible», as in Bultmann the antithesis
is not so much between Vorhandensein and Dasein as between the tangible realities
of the visible world and eternal realities, very much like the Pauline contrast
of kata sarka and kata pneuma.
Though it
is an innate
human characteristic to have a conscience, what the conscience gets troubled about
is largely a matter
of training and experience.
To the extent that the man - made setting
of man's life and the setting which
was naturally antecedent to
human freedom
are specifically different, the latter
being characteristic of earlier times and the former
of the present, we
are now living in a setting which almost in its very essence
is more complicated and intractable and inaccessible to the understanding
of the individual than
was ever the case before.
We treat racism as though it
is the contained
characteristic of a specific species
of human beings known as racists, that lived in a prior era
of American history, but have now nearly become extinct.
That this more than
human graciousness seeks a world order based on love and grace rather than force and fear
is not
characteristic of traditional Buddhism, but it does not violate any basic Buddhist insight.
The very
human personal
characteristics of even the greatest scholars — including their religious or anti-religious proclivities —
are often not irrelevant to the kind
of scholarship they produce.
Regarding the latter, classical theologians typically limit self - determining (free) creatures on this earth to
humans (Or perhaps also to certain higher animals), 1 while process theologians typically would affirm that creative self - determination
is characteristic of all
beings.
Classical theologians typically limit self - determining (free) creatures on this earth to
humans (or perhaps also to certain higher animals), while process theologians typically would affirm that creative self - determination
is characteristic of all
beings.
That
is, a
human mind
is a society
of serially ordered actual entities that inherit a defining
characteristic (Process 34).
Two terms could
be used (from systematic botany): (a) hermaphrodite (from Lat., hermaphroditus, having the
characteristics of both male and female), i.e., an individual biologically with both sex organs (unfortunately, the term
is applied also to
humans who possess both female and male sex organs); (b) monoclinous (Gk., monos, one + kline, a bed), i.e., a plant having flowers with both stamens and pistils — without regard to their spatial arrangement (such flowers
are said to
be perfect).
Inserting a god as the explanation for all
of the unknown - not to mention assigning this god an array
of human - like emotional
characteristics... wants, needs, demands, rewards & punishments, etc. -
is not valid.
From another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his struggle, in his willingness to risk...» That project,
of exploring the spirit and limits
of being human,
is,
of course, a deeply
characteristic quality
of Western literature and philosophy, from St. Augustine to Thomas Merton, from Meister Eckhart to William James and Albert Camus.
Accordingly, the inevitable historicity
of all
human proceedings does nothing to show that various beliefs and behaviors can not
be more than the
characteristic possession
of a transient and temporary era in the history
of a particular culture.
Morality, love, ethics
are all natural
human characteristics which
are based on survival
of the species and evolve from societal needs.
The
human race
is male and female, since obviously its members
are equipped with the physical
characteristics of gender, some
of the female sort, others
of the male.
Metaphysics, in that respect,
is the study
of the general
characteristics of reality by means
of the description
of changing presuppositions
of human thought,
of which cosmology
is a part.
Larger non-
human or inhuman systems, such as institutions, economies, governments, families,
are not «adversarial,» «competitive» or «cruel» except in our manners
of speaking which project
human characteristics on groups and corporaton which
are literally no thing: can't touch.
If the most notable
characteristic of God
is unilateral controlling power, then analogous power seems to
be a desirable goal for
human attainment as well.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the
human condition in its universal
characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source
of life and hence
of concern for all
humans, present and future, - the
human conscience guiding each one interiorly would
be known only to each one personally, - the each group
of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background
of its own
is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization
of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge
of the categorical
characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the
human mind as such
is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.
Second, if you take all
of God's
characteristics and think
of a
human being with them, your boss for example, you get a horrifically bad person.
The first
is human dignity, which
is characteristic of our status in between God and beasts: «Not simply body, but also not simply mind or spirit; rather, the place where body and spirit meet and
are united (and reconciled?)