Sentences with phrase «denied human freedom»

Two traits of classical theism were that it either (like Stoicism and Spinozism) clearly and consistently denied human freedom (in the straightforward sense of actions being not wholly determined by their causal conditions) or else ambiguously or contradictorily affirmed and denied causal determinism — truly classically in Aquinas's statement that God strictly causes our actions but in such fashion that we were also free to act otherwise.

Freud denied human freedom lest it introduce irrationality into the world.

If we deny human freedom we make the humanist protest against religion inevitable and so far valid.

One theme that remains constant in this narrative is the fundamental agreement that, as two distinct institutional expressions, church and state must seek to shape human desire in ways that promote public goods without denying human freedom.

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The strong still exploit the weak, the important human values of freedom and privacy are effectively denied, and incentives for productive activity are undermined.

«One particular religious freedom issue demands our immediate attention: the now - finalized rule of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would force virtually all private health plans nationwide to provide coverage of sterilization and contraception - including abortifacient drugs - subject to an exemption for «religious employers» that is arbitrarily narrow, and to an unspecified and dubious future «accommodation» for other religious organizations that are denied the exemption,» the statement read.

You can deny people their basic human freedoms and rights and feel you've done immense good in the world.

They have fought advances of thought, they have tried to defeat the efforts of men and women to know more about the world, they have denied the validity of scientific truth, they have called into question the freedom and responsibility, as well as the dignity, of human life.

There are many Islamic governments who deny others to exercise their basic freedom and human rights.

It made me redefine scripture as a means of supporting human rights and freedoms rather than as an excuse for denying them, as fundamentals have done.

Recently, Richard Pipes, in his book Property and Freedom, has argued that acquiring property is a natural instinct for human beings, and therefore societies that try to restrict or abolish property» such as Tsarist or Marxist Russia» tend to deny freedom and promote tyranny because they must repress human Freedom, has argued that acquiring property is a natural instinct for human beings, and therefore societies that try to restrict or abolish property» such as Tsarist or Marxist Russia» tend to deny freedom and promote tyranny because they must repress human freedom and promote tyranny because they must repress human nature.

Or is the way of Ivan and his theological rebellion one of holding to God for fear of annihilation, but hating him and his world, and with equal passion asserting the reality of a human freedom that he denies by his quixotic behavior at the time of the trial?

To start with man as already free, as traditional thought and the existentialists like Sartre do, is to end up either depreciating human freedom as the traditionalists do to save divine foreknowledge, or denying God altogether to save man as the existentialists do.

If human beings could communicate among themselves by direct sympathy, then they would be as mutually dependent upon each other as the body and mind are; and this condition would deny individual persons freedom and distinct individuality over against one another.26 Although the relationship between one's body and mind seems to be immediately social, Hartshorne holds that interchange between human minds is almost never by direct contact and generally through mediation of vibrating particles of air and other kinds of «matter.»

However, they deny that such freedom has been voluntarily bestowed by God, maintaining instead that every actual entity (including each human) simply does possess some power of self - determination.

The ultimate mystery of evil is that man in becoming human denies that which makes him human, his freedom in communion.

But to treat human beings as natural objects is to deny their essential characteristic of freedom.

There is a radical capacity in human freedom to create realms of meaning and reshape the world, but it can also deny meaning to existence, reject God, and plunge toward self - destruction.

Christians have had similar debates, with views ranging between those who advocated «Double Predestination», which is the view that God determines those who will be saved and those who will be damned, and Pelagians who hold that human beings have freedom to choose or deny God.

Sir: In regard to your fine coverage of the U.S. Olympic boycott, I have one question: In a country founded on freedom, does a President, who is ostensibly a staunch supporter of human rights, have the right to deny athletes the right to pursue a lifelong dream?

Despite society and the world as we know it having collapsed, a massive, automatic product - manufacturing factory continues to operate according to the principles of consumerism — humans consume products to be happy, and in order to consume continuously, they must be denied freedom of choice and free will.

Wolfe wrote, «One of the few freedoms that we have as human beings that can not be taken away from us is the freedom to assent to what is true and to deny to what is false.»

Only the deer in the park and the birds, whether massing and re-massing in the evening sky or seen up close in the bat house of Dublin Zoo, seem to enjoy the uninhibited freedom to interact with each other that their human counterparts are denied.

Some Egyptian lawyers have been denied the rights to a fair trial and freedom of expression and assembly because of broad security legislation passed since 2013, as well as facing travel bans and prosecution for carrying out their professional duties, in support of human rights.

UFCW Canada argued the section of the Code violated freedom of association rights under both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms because it denies agricultural workers employed on farms that have three or less employees, the right to join a union and bargain successfully.

By 1911, every mainland State and Territory had introduced protection policies that subjected Indigenous people to near - total control and denied them basic human rights such as freedom of movement and labour, custody of their children, and control over their personal property.

The Commonwealth legislation's authorisation of state and territory native title regimes also denies Indigenous peoples «effective protection and remedies» against acts of racial discrimination that violate their human rights and fundamental freedoms, as required under Article 6.