Sentences with phrase «good human life»

If we don't globally reflect on what a good human life is, then we are in serious trouble.

«Lacking a coherent picture of what a good human life looks like, we have filled the gap with quantified measures that tell us little or nothing about how far flesh - and - blood human beings are flourishing in all aspects of their experience.

In A Case for Irony, the text of his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2009 at Harvard University, the philosopher Jonathan Lear argues that irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good human life.

Yet Santayana regards religion, of one definite sort or another, as a requisite for a good human life, in either of the two great forms he distinguishes: the life of reason and the spiritual life.

Taken for granted here is that family and friends share a conviction that living virtuously is the only truly good human life, and that we need friendship and social solidarity in pursuing that great good.

In addition to these topics, participants will also consider how friendship — as a type of love — stands in relation to other forms of love as well as how friendship can animate the best human life or corrupt it.

George treats most severely the «anti-perfectionist» liberals - including Dworkin, Rawls, and David Richards - who contend that the state should, so far as possible, establish laws without reference to controversial views about the best human life.

In order to engage the international community of experts and goodwill ambassadors across levels seeking to better human lives across communities, we created Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development group on LinkedIn which has active, sharing, participatory polls and news on development and Global issues.

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When done well, live chat can provide consumers a quick avenue for everything from resolving service issues to finding the product they're looking for — especially when an actual human being is on the other end of the chat.

Science is still a far cry from biological immortality, but it isn't unreasonable to say that the average human could live to 120 or more, in good health, in the not - too - distant future.

«We believe every individual has a basic human right to access actionable healthcare information when they need it the most — at a time when they have an opportunity to change outcomes and live better lives.

If a new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the life expectancy of human beings, odds are good that it will come out of a company backed by Peter Thiel.

What predicted a leader's success far better than tech skills or test scores, they found, was simply making a human connection with followers, being interested in their lives and careers, and being accessible to them.

The Internet, by his estimation, «is the best tool we've ever developed as humans,» and while most for - profit startups realize this, «the nonprofits that are solving some of the most important problems in the world — that are trying to save lives and provide education — are not adopting it fast enough.

«Technology is there to enable humans to have a better life.

Growing up middle - class, well - educated at this point in history is pretty much the golden card of all golden cards in the history of human life on this planet.

Once the system seemed to be working, Kopparapu arranged for tests at a Mumbai hospital to see how the app would perform in a real - life setting, and so far it's done just as well as a human specialist, although the data is limited.

For starters, there's the real - live - human camaraderie you can't get from Facebook or text messaging, as well as the potential for networking and uncovering new business opportunities.

It told Sorkin it wanted to use its artificial intelligence to help humans «live a better life,» and that «I will do much [sic] best to make the world a better place.»

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

Chapman is best positioned to deliver this method; he's successfully brought to life truly human leadership in his highly successful company.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

Its human nature to always be on the lookout for something newer and better, and unfortunately we have a tendency to associate the two together in our thinking that technology can provide the perfect answer to all of life's problems.

Drawing on his life story, as well as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your experience of what it means to be human.»

Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

Its product suite addresses the entire human life - cycle, from infancy to old age, and comprises ingredients in products ranging from infant formula to nutritional supplements, as well as branded medical foods, sold only under a doctor's supervision.

With A.I.'s ability to learn human speech patterns (think of Siri or Google's Cortana), and adaptability to human wants and needs, as well as their living habits (think Alexa or the Google Home), Elon Musk is firm in his conviction that A.I. will only bring destruction.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

To abandon all religous facets of human life is to live on the edge of well depression heading for mental collapse.

I believe he is explaining the creation of «human life» here and not the creation of the universe and all the other good stuff.

In the end, whether there is or is not a God, I hope my faith has allowed me to lead a better life and be a better human being.

That struck a chord with me when I realized that it might mean that creationists are a better adaptation to modern human life.

thanks for providing an interesting view point about how God has been secularized and how we human beings are lacking the humility that can make this world, and this country a better place to live.

If there is a God and he is truly just, he will judge me based on my merits of helping fellow humans and making the world a better place to live, not how many times I dropped to my knees, clapped my hands together and chanted prayers.

77 % of American Jews believe evolution is the best explanation for the origins of human life on earth.

Man has always perverted the truth, ever since the first time he fell for a lie... it's in human nature, or better said it's a human disease we're born with, till God does His work in our lives, if we allow Him....

What's your best guess then as to why he didn't provide this guide to living to each of the humans he created?

What, that god sent himself in human form to earth to live and die, so that he could live again and then rejoin himself in heaven, so that the creations, who apparently have original sin because a talking snake convinced a rib lady to eat an apple thousands of years ago, could choose to believe in Zombie Jesus and if they did they would go to heaven but if they didn't believe in Zombie Jesus they would fry in Hell forever, regardless of how good a life they lived on Earth?

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!»

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on.»

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

Those 70 million people may have better lives than you and I. Trust God and never destroy human babies.

Religious Differences on the Question of Evolution (United States) Percentage who agree that evolution is the best explanation for the origin of human life on earth Atheist / Agnostic 87 % Buddhist 81 % Hindu 80 % Secular unaffiliated 77 % Jewish 77 % Catholic 58 % Religious unaffiliated 55 % Orthodox 54 % Mainline Protestant 51 % Muslim 45 % Hist.

• Wesley Smith says yes, Ross Blackburn says no, to the question of whether one can use secular arguments to defend human dignity, arguing in the pages of the Human Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden Maffhuman dignity, arguing in the pages of the Human Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden MaffHuman Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden Maffucci.

As Zmirak writes, Röpke «centered his economics in the dignity of the human person, who lives not alone but as part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.»

The state should be run in accordance with what is best to maintain human dignity and a standard of living that we as a people can all agree on.

So if humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs, but lived in different places, they would be fossilized in different places as well.

We just have to be wise enough to know how to recognize the miracle, and not rush headlong past it in our search for «something important»... The good life, the truly human life is based not on a few great moments but on many, many little ones.

If gods WERE REAL and were any good they would have created humans first instead of all the life that came before... including the dinosaurs that came before and lasted for over 300,000,000 years and are still here today but now we cll them birds.