Suppose we begin with the dawning possibility that it is now possible to produce enough of the basic material
essential for all human beings, given the proper technological innovations plus access to the world's resources on a globally integrated basis.
Getting sufficient rest is
essential for every human being.
Developing constructive behaviors to respond to varying circumstances is
essential for a human being.
It is
essential for every human being to...
Not exact matches
Face - to - face communication happens to
be not only
essential for human happiness but also could
be the missing link to some of the most powerful, long - term health benefits.
Daniel H. Pink outlines the six fundamentally
human abilities that
are absolute
essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment — and reveals how to master them.
In a tight labor market, creating a climate attractive to older workers
is essential, says Lydia Greene, chief
human resources officer
for Tufts Health Plan.
Normal negative emotions
are actually growth promoting and
essential for human development and adaptation.
Mike Stelzner and Phil Mershon of Social Media Examiner do an amazing job of hand picking speakers
for this conference and the
human element to any such list of influencers
is essential.
Finally, respect
for human rights
is an
essential standard
for governance.
Beyond that, zinc can
be used to increase crop yields and quality, and it
is an
essential nutrient
for human development and disease prevention.
In the present social and cultural context, where there
is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity
is not merely useful but
essential for building a good society and
for true integral
human development.
On the other hand, one must welcome the true conquests of the Enlightenment,
human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its practice, and recognize these as
being essential elements
for the authenticity of religion. . . .
The proper course, it seems to me,
is for church leaders and people of good will to make every effort to connect the
human - rights project to an affirmation of the
essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.
It would still
be true, I think, that the content of such an experience, and even a fully adequate and somehow (impossibly) guaranteed inventory of that content, would not alone provide any nonarbitrary basis, intuitive or articulate,
for distinguishing what
is essential to the experience simply as an experience, and what
is essential to it as a specifically
human experience — nor even
for determining whether there
is anything peculiarly one's own in the experience, as distinguished from what
is essential to
human experience as
human or as experience.
The
essential moral and theological objections to such a characterization would
be with the adverbs «completely» and «entirely,» which
are necessary to the materialist metaphysic but render the latter unhelpful as a foundation
for any coherently imperative
human moral sensibility (including environmental stewardship).
Hence, a neuronal occasion in the
human brain prehends the very minute disturbances of the electromagnetic field occasioned by other neuronal occasions in its immediate past, since these «minor» disturbances
are absolutely
essential for its own reaction (self - constitution).
has a genius all her own, which
is vitally
essential to both society and the Church... she
is endowed with a particular capacity
for the
human being in his concrete form.
For while there
are bits and pieces of new information here, the
essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his
human decency —
were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.
power / control
is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as
being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire
for one
human to exert control over another as the
essential human evil — blessing on your work.
Except
for its Roman model, it refers to few precise past and no existing temporal states, but to the divinely sanctioned secular government of all Europe that should
be the
essential ordering force of
human affairs in this world.
And scientifically, since what characterizes the development of the animal species from its beginning
is the struggle
for life, how can we expect, mere
humans that we
are, to escape from this
essential biological condition without which there can
be neither growth nor progress?
The second principle
for a sexual ethic
is that we have to speak of sex, as of every aspect of
human life, in a double way, from the standpoint of
essential created goodness, and the distortion produced by sin.
It recognizes that strong government institutions
are essential for making and enforcing laws to protect
human dignity.
Atheism takes
for many something away that
is essential to the fabric of
human life and we have to come to some decisions about what
is true, what
is lovely and what
is just and kind.
The question
is whether a
human being may venture to express the same idea;
for otherwise the God has not realized the
essential elements of a
human life.
thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had
been in existence long before
human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We
are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an
essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian —
for there
are pious barbarians — who thinks he
is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.
While it may
be possible to argue about something that binds all
humans together in an
essential oneness, one must not lose sight of the reality that it
is precisely in the in - betweenness of
human beings that the issue regarding the lack of peace and the necessity
for reconciliation ought to
be located.
I have
been arguing that good cities
are an
essential component of the good life
for human beings, who
are made in the image of God, and that urbanism —
for good reason —
is a privileged symbol in the Christian imagination.
Good cities
are an
essential component of the good life
for human beings, who
are made in the image of God.
When correctly understood, these principles of obligation help Christians discern what they should do and lead them in both actualizing and mediating between various tendencies and needs (the third level) which Christians believe
are essential for human existence.
The health of eco-systems
is essential to our survival, and their integrity must
be respected both
for human self - interest and because of the intrinsic value of the nonhuman world.
Thus, in spite of the centrality Western culture gives to «
being intimate,» the Wynnes view intimacy as a supplementary, not an
essential, process «
for strengthening the bonding that has
been crucial
for the survival of the
human species throughout the ages.»
For many people, the classics
are works that
are ends in themselves because they embody
essential truths about the
human condition.
For after all, in any faith which
is genuinely theocentric or focused upon God, it
is essential to make sure that it
is God, not
human desires or wishes or aspirations as they now stand, who
is to
be «given the glory»; and it
is in God, and in God alone, that we may speak meaningfully of the significance of our own existence.
One of the
essential elements in
human nature, according to them,
is free will and the capacity
for choosing either good or evil.
- 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.
In addition to faith, hope
is another basic ingredient
essential for human existence,
for man can not live indefinitely without some form of hope.
And there
is also Tillich's own theory: the resurrection really
is a statement that the existential Jesus has become,
for those who have faith, the
essential Christ in whom Godhead and manhood
are so united that existential
human possibility has become
essential manhood or humanity.
On the other hand, if we decide
for the model of love, thinking of God as more like a
human lover (but with defects, imperfections, frustrations, distortions removed), it will follow that whatever power
is exercised by Him will
be loving in its
essential quality.
On the other hand the Church developed another view of God and
human life in which original sin
was the all enveloping condition of
human existence, and the ministrations of the Church
were essential for salvation and sanctification.
For the pragmatist James the cross-cultural study of religion
was essential because it presented
human beings at the passionate peak of their shared experience.
Once they
are unmasked, shown
for what they really
are, religious belief and the idea of God can
be useful instruments of
human self - understanding, revealing to us our
essential nature and worth.
Because this happening discloses what
is most
essential for our understanding of reality, it enjoys an importance in
human thought and behavior that sets it apart from all other happenings,
for it
is precisely in relation to the real that man finds fulfilment in his own
being.
For instance, such a character can not enjoy meaningful relationships, which
are essential to
human happiness.
Because virtue ethicists tend to trace their lineage back to Aristotle, when they discuss the connection between ethics and metaphysics they also tend to do so in Aristotelian terms, specifically in terms of a natural teleology that tries to determine which functional properties
are essential for a full
human life.
Yet though neither
being gay nor
being American, nor even having «sexual» or «national» identities,
is essential to what it means
for Jack to
be human, those things may
be part of what makes Jack the particular
human we call «Jack.»
But Sen's only hope
for this
essential self «transcendence
is his belief in
human reason» plus the «evolutionary selection of behavioral modes.»
No
human love, it
is held, even the most idealistic, can
be said to embody agape, the love of God,
for human love
is always limited and ambiguous in its object, and
is corrupted by
human selfishness in its
essential spirit.
He believed, however, that they could
be reconciled,
for while the glorified body of the risen Jesus
is normally neither visible nor tangible, it «temporarily reassumes the
human outline, and solid frame, and former appearance, and marks of the wounds,
for evidential and instructive purposes».13 In the resurrection narratives the Evangelists «describe the re-entrance of the glorified Body of Christ into terrestrial conditions, effected
for the purpose of convincing His apostles of His Resurrection, and of giving them instructions and commssions».14 He believed that Paul,
being the theologian,
was not concerned with these occasional manifestations, but with the
essential condition of the risen Christ and that his
is therefore the profounder teaching.