Sentences with phrase «condition of being human»

Not exact matches

It's just a part of the human condition that we learn best when we fail - pain and disappointment causes us to re-evaluate and search for the better way.

Anger, sadness, loneliness, joy — all of these emotions are part of the human condition, and you can't escape them.

«A cascade of changing business conditions, changing organizational structures, and changing leadership has been forcing human resource departments to alter their perspectives on their role and function almost overnight,» wrote John Johnston in Business Quarterly.

«If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus's clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,» Patrick Irwin, a physicist at the University of Oxford who led the new study, said in the press release.

Herd animals, indistinguishable lemmings, behaviorally conditioned lab rats — distasteful as those words and phrases may be — they describe the vast majority of human behavior, especially online.

«It's the human condition to want to help people with stories of our struggles and also to hear stories about people who've overcome the odds,» she says.

Perhaps most intriguing is how Johnson can relate seemingly unrelated inventions - such as the invention of air conditioning - to the largest migration of humans in history.

Certainly, anger is a natural part of the human condition, and it isn't always a bad thing.

It is the nature of technology that it not only dominates nature but also places layers of separation between the human condition and nature.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Death and suffering is an inescapable element of the human condition.

In short the need for actions and policies on many fronts has never been so great — yet the political comprehension and agenda is bankrupt of the will deal with the most salient matters facing the human condition.

«Liberalism, socialism, and pragmatism may all be termed optimistic in the sense that they are all premised on the idea that the application of reason to human social and political conditions will ultimately result in the melioration of these conditions.

It should limit Autopilot's operation only to those conditions, and have a far more effective system to sense, verify, and safely react when the human driver's level of engagement in the driving task is insufficient or when the driver fails to react to warnings.

The project's goal is to change the global approach of employers to human labour and its conditions.

Part of the challenge in managing millennials, Sinek said, is counteracting their social conditioning by providing a work atmosphere that emphasizes longer - term rewards and human interaction.

If it seems to be part of our basic human condition, that's because it is.

Within that century and a half there's some good news about the global human condition that ought to be kept in mind when remembering the bad news of the twentieth century and the early twenty - first.

The modern project of controlling nature is founded on the belief that technological innovation improves the human condition and should be encouraged rather than controlled.

Faith of some sort seems to be a central feature of the human condition.

In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to confront the reality that sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the human condition, it's that it is not something that should make us «feel better.»

There is still a very long way to go before we as a whole have learned to tolerate the diversity of the human condition.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

It is far more challenging when trying to replicate processes of nature, because nature is wildy more complex than any human engineering, but as we get smarter and learn more we come closer adn closer to being able to simulate natural conditions and create the expected results.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

In like manner, the preaching and theology shaped by new critical presumptions to illumine the human condition hid from us that the human condition we were illuminating was that of the bourgeoisie.

Christianity, as the illumination of the human condition, is not a Christianity at war with the world.

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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?

They note that he has been a powerful voice in defense of the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions and marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, though they do not praise him for that as I would.

These terms are not (or should not be) pejorative, as they describe part of the human condition.

the answer to that is the incarnation itself, that Christ would take upon himself humanity and the pains and struggles of the human condition, including the pains of death.

-- No human can change the past, thus the existing set of conditions is unchangeable.

I wouldn't call Spenser a greater poet, but he saw the human condition and our often - anguished journey toward God in a richer, more humane way than Milton did, who at the end of the day was more interested in ideas than people.

This is more of a human condition than an atheist / non-atheist issue.

«Time» is something humans created to quantifying the passing of events, because we need it to understand the world around us (or at least most of us do; there are people with strange mental conditions that are fully functioning but have no concept of time).

Is the human intellectual concept of personhood applied to an anencephelic fetus, and which ones with all the various genetic variations of the condition where the fetus has no brain, or part of a brain?

By my reading of both the human condition and our current culture, a project like Hart's is more important to the status of religion in public life than, say, arguments for a natural law.

Although these threads often degenerate, the simple act of engagement in the discussion provides a means to examine one's position and how it relates to what we might agree is a shared goal in mitigating suffering and improving the human condition.

It is part of being human and really isn't a condition of one side or the other.

The condition of bitter philosophical disagreement with one's neighbor is a constant of human nature.

Morally, as Ruether has noted, the individual is ambivalent, fundamentally good but capable of great evil; consequently, a feminist critique must keep hold of a judging as well as an affirming dimension if it is truly to respond to the human condition.

A Whiteheadian political theory, then, should have due regard for the biological and «material» conditions of human existence, recognizing that these yield their own measure of self - enjoyment.11 Also included in private happiness are the nonshared aspects of the individual's dialogue with himself or herself.

Imagine what the world would be like today if human history had been one of cooperation to improve the human condition instead of one of advancing self - interest.

Thus, for instance, the self - conscious freedom of human activity is made possible by the extremely complex order that it is privileged to appropriate, including the conditions which support life on this earth and the complexity of the human body.

Stating that men have been killed in Chittagong's shipbreaking yards on the coast of southern Bangladesh, he said: «This work is carried out in very hazardous conditions and claims innumerable human lives.»

Not only that, but because the «rule of law» is itself part of the common good — i.e., it is one of those «conditions» that is conducive to human flourishing — it is part of lawmakers» vocation, and something they are obligated to do, to make law in accord with the rules - laid - down.»

It's part of the fallen human condition.

I just find my source to be much more reliable than that of one which is mired in the human condition.

Such gender constructs are hardly natural or «inherent» in the human condition but they become inescapable or «inherited» dimensions of our human existence.