Sentences with phrase «concrete human individual»

The word Adam is used more as a concept than as the name of a concrete human individual and is reserved for the human beings in their capacity of God's vicegerent on earth 58.

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They have always had as their goal the reconciliation between human solidarity on the one hand and the dignity of individual, concrete persons, situations, and facts on the other.

The distance between the moral principles which the Church proclaims and — leaving aside for the moment the question of the Church's pastoral office — which alone can be propounded doctrinally, and the concrete prescriptions by which the individual and the various human communities freely shape their existence, has now increased to an extent that introduces what is practically a difference of nature as compared with earlier times.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

The state is the climactic moment in Hegel's philosophy of objective Spirit and his Philosophy of Right.14 Rationality and freedom both achieve their peak within the concrete structures of human society in the state, which exists as a result of the actions of individual finite spirits and is in virtue of this the result of the movement of the Spirit in history.

Such a «sum of all value» can be felt concretely only by God, and therefore it is God's prehending the various human goods that provides the unity to a multiplicity of concrete individual enjoyments.

The human individual, as a concrete instantiation of a rational and free nature, is «distinct by reason of dignity», and because of this we attribute to him the word person.

These lists and specific references in other essays identify six similarities: (a) God is understood as love involving God's presence in human experience and God's response to that experience, (b) human existence depends upon God's grace and that grace makes humans free, (c) humans respond to God resulting in the fulfillment of God's intentions in the concrete experiences of individuals, (d) knowledge involves more than subjective sensory experience, (e) experience broadly understood is crucial for theology, and (f) reality is characterized by diversity and relationality.

Among the primary goals of the NHVP was assistance in building supportive relationships with family members and friends and linking women with needed health and human services — concrete services that can also be addressed by individual mental health providers.

States Parties shall, when the circumstances so warrant, take, in the social, economic, cultural and other fields, special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.