Sentences with phrase «fundamental human capacity»

For in accepting such responsibility for the next generation, in allowing ourselves even to suppose that it could be a fitting role for human beings, we lose the fundamental human capacity to love — to say to our children, to the next generation, «It's good that you exist.»

The word designates indeed the fundamental human capacity to live for the other and because of the other.»

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Since the legitimacy of institutions of governance» be they democratic or otherwise» depends ultimately on their capacity and willingness to preserve and promote the common good by, above all, protecting fundamental human rights, the failure of the institutions of American democracy to fulfill their responsibilities has created what is truly a crisis.

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

Whatever their differences, the greatest of modern Italian novelists — Manzoni, Verga, Moravia, Silone, Lampedusa — share a fundamental pessimism about the human capacity to alter social institutions.

Since the legitimacy of institutions of governance — be they democratic or otherwise — depends ultimately on their capacity and willingness to preserve and promote the common good by, above all, protecting fundamental human rights, the failure of the institutions of American democracy to fulfill their responsibilities has created what is truly a crisis.

In a Waldorf school, the arts are a fundamental tool that not only furthers the students» academic skills but, more importantly, cultivates the uniquely human capacity of creativity.

Minimalist politics, in contrast, avoids the need for elabourated conceptions of the human good and only require general judgements about the needs, desires, capacities, opportunities and resources that are of fundamental importance.

While the benefits of technology's expanding reach are abundant, many serious thinkers — including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates — have expressed fundamental concerns about the possibility that machines could come to exceed human capacity for thinking.

Knowing this is fundamental to understanding ourselves as humans, and also impacts our comprehension of what happens when things go wrong in our capacity to make decisions.

They acknowledge the human hand and its capacity to record lived experience and personal memory as fundamental — as the beginning.

Despite frequent assertions starting in the 1970s of fundamental «limits to growth,» there is still remarkably little evidence that human population and economic expansion will outstrip the capacity to grow food or procure critical material resources in the foreseeable future.