Sentences with phrase «for universal understandings»

We want to look for universal understandings, such as intellectual empathy and fairminded critical thought (both of which are highlighted in Fair Frans Community Cats), that we can use in potentially all parts of our lives.

It is difficult not to experience a hint of ethos with these people, masking their backgrounds and personal stories to act as placards pleading for universal understanding and compassion.

Not exact matches

«I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac,» said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self - Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper.

Most people have been grounded in the understanding that a male and female represent a universal law required for reproduction.

One of the universal lessons and binding threads that can be gleaned from the Bible is that we are to constantly strive and look for ways to grow in our understanding and practice of the love and grace of God.

It serves now as a transitional period for a future cosmic fullness of the sacred, Altizer states: «We can not understand the «Unhappy Consciousness» unless we realize that it too, like the «Dark Night of the Soul,» is a transitional state between an individual and particular realization of the truth and the reality of Spirit, a realization whose very particularity demands a chasm between itself and Spirit, and a universal and total epiphany of Spirit which obliterates this chasm.

Both the universal need for empathy and the slighting of it in the Christian tradition can be seen in the way that we have understood God.

The categorical imperative to «treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.

For God as understood by the Jew or Christian is either universal in reality or sheer delusion.

Quoting Whitehead, he indicates what he thinks might be the reason for this lack of understanding: «The truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.»

For Aphrahat, the election of Israel needs to be understood in the light of God's plan of universal salvation.

For Albrecht Ritschl, Christ saves man by fulfilling his vocation to establish the universal ethical community in which the spirit is victorious over the resistance of nature.2 Thus every theology seeks a pattern in which the atonement can be understood.

Is Christian love to be understood as identical with a universal human phenomenon that is in turn continuous with the affection animals show for one another and for men?

It follows that the highest command can no longer be the attainment of individual salvation — as Pali Buddhism formulates the goal of its way of life — but rather the imitation of the Buddha, who in turn is understood to be not merely a model for the attainment of one's own salvation, in the Hinayanist autosoteriological sense, but a universal world savior.

-- Last but not least, as members of the human species, our universal responsibility is to encourage comprehension and appreciation for the excellence of the human spirit in all its manifestations; and for inspiring awe and wonder for a cosmos that brought forth life and consciousness and holds out the possibility of its continued evolution toward higher levels of insight, understanding, love, and compassion.

In other words, if nature is to be understood philosophically then it must be grasped in its concept, namely, that which is essential or universal in nature for thought.

Islam does not have priests, for like Protestant Christianity it insists upon the universal priesthood of believers, but there are Imams, mullahs, ulemas, who perform many of the functions of ministers, teachers, leaders in Islam, and these must be trained in the knowledge and understanding of the Koran.

Its sacred to us, we treat it with respect, it symbolizes ones personal freedom, it stands for universal freedom to all, though many in the west do nt know about the Sikh history and therefore do nt understand the significance of the turban.

Many couples discover that an understanding of the inner nature of creative closeness and the processes by which couples can move toward it is one important step toward satisfying the universal hunger for such closeness.

But to be of full value for all people in all ages these insights must be understood as illustrations and particular embodiments of general aspects of universal human experience.

Would Jesus» Jewish listeners have heard this parable as a plea for a more universal understanding of God's relationship to human beings, in that God welcomes home both Jew and non-Jew?

The movements of the merman I can understand, whereas I can not understand Abraham; for it is precisely through the paradox that the merman comes to the point of realizing the universal.

For existentialism usually conceives of inauthentic existence as man's attempt to avoid the «awful freedom» of his historicity, and to find security in his human nature, which is understood quite rationalistically: the individual is a particular, comfortably subsumed under a universal.

Because their own rationalized experience increasingly defined for them what was «real,» theologians sought to understand scripture by relating it to their own (supposedly universal) «reality.»

How hard is universal love and respect for fellow man to understand?

Schweitzer's ethical mysticism begins with a reflective observation of the finite world («I am urge - to - life»), moves to an empirical generalization («in the midst of other wills - to - live»), is made cosmic by an intuitive insight, which is the completing or mystical element of thought («all is part of a cosmic or universal will - to - live»), and returns to the finite for experiential verification in ethical participation («Ethics alone can put me in true relationship with the universe by my serving it, cooperating with it; not by trying to understand it... It is through community of life, not community of thought, that I abide in harmony... [«The Ethics of Reverence for Life,» Christendom, Vol.

As in African theology, Latin American liberation theology and theologies of the oppressed in North America, the search for an Asian theology has its origin in the recognition that Euro - American theology is totally inadequate to provide universal concepts of religious understanding.

Such universal responsibility is incompatible with a spiritualism that limits the Church's concern to immaterial values, with a moralism that does not understand the value of the sin ner and the sinful nation, with an individualism that makes mankind as a whole and its societies of less concern to God than single persons, and with any of those particularistic and polytheistic theories of value and responsibility which substitute for God - in - Christ some other deity as the source of valuable being.

The question that has to be asked, however, is whether Spinoza intended the readers of chapter 14 (especially those who lived in the years before the publication of the Ethics) to understand that he is here speaking Spinozistically, and that the universal religion he outlines and seeks to propagate is intertwined with propositions that are not true but that are nevertheless useful for maintaining «the piety of the masses.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

There is a universal character of wisdom in humans» quest for their self - understanding in relation to the nature, people and God.

The most we can do is to argue for the plausibility of some kind of universal purpose in the cosmos as we understand it in the light of modern science.

This demand was now winging its way all over Germany, for Luther's understanding of universal Christian priesthood had been a major basis for his turning to the nobility.

The theological basis for this shift in Criswell's preaching was the doctrine of the universal Church, that is, the Church understood as the spiritual union of all of the redeemed of all of the ages.

It is not necessary to discuss in any detail — as has been done in the previous three chapters — the point that from the standpoint of intelligible religion the basis for understanding must be constant reference to the universal experience of imperfection.

«The time required for complete understanding and use of toilet facilities varies from child to child,» stated the American Academy of Pediatrics in the journal Pediatrics, adding that the process should be expected to take at least three months and that «there is no one universal right age to begin toilet training and no absolute deadline to complete training.»

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

Finland is much healthier than the US given less poverty, universal health care, whiter population (African Americans have poorer health for not completely understood reasons), less diabetes etc..

Unfortunately, almost none of that could be said to come «naturally» in a society that doesn't always teach men to fully respect or nurture their partners, doesn't provide universal paid parental leave for all parents, doesn't ensure that all healthcare providers understand what it means to support mothers» efforts to breastfeed, doesn't teach people what it looks like to establish a nursing relationship, and pushes mothers to put all sorts of other things (financial obligations, social pressures to entertain guests and / or «get their body back») ahead of their postpartum recovery.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has urged the Government to provide greater clarity to parents on the many recent and planned changes to child support.1 The tax campaigners are concerned that the childcare support landscape has become very complex and it is difficult for parents to understand how schemes are supposed to interact, such as tax credits, the planned tax free childcare (TFC), universal credit, free childcare entitlement and childcare vouchers.

As someone who comes from a country where universal health care is taken as granted (perhaps even taken too much for granted) I find it very difficult to understand why so many people would vote this way.

Mr Geithner explained a mutual understanding of what had caused the current crisis underscored the universal acknowledgement of the need for action.

«I find it hard to understand how people don't give him credit for the universal pre-K program or for believing that we need much more affordable housing,» he said.

The basis for the new understanding that there might be some universal vaccine possible is that several groups, including ours, identified and isolated monoclonal antibodies.

They endeavour to understand these different phenomena by searching for universal properties.

Our work continues as we advance new methods and understanding for detecting cancers at their earliest stages, universal flu vaccines, and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis.

The Upanishads, like the Gita, give little direct instruction on the practical techniques of yoga, but lay the foundations for an understanding of the yogic state through an examination of the relationship between the personal and Universal Self, the union of which is the ultimate goal of yoga practice.

The workshop covers in optimum detail the concept or understanding of universal energy for the purpose of healing self and then channeling this to heal others.

Concepts of energy flow, chakra scanning, effects on the human body and mind are discussed so that healers can understand the underlying purpose on how to channel universal energy for healing.

While our open - group yoga and meditation sessions are intimate and specialized to provide a certain level of attention to each student in addition to serving the purpose of coming together in universal consciousness, we understand the need for private sessions as well.