Not exact matches
Ecosystem goods and services have most recently
been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions
of ecosystems to
human well -
being,» which can further
be divided into one
of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning
grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation
of these categories).
In other cases this appeal alleges, not that there
is any experience
of the present self which
grounds all experience
of the nonself, but that the most immediate objects
of present
human experience
are the immediately preceding instances
of human experience (cf., e.g., MMCL 444).
The Equal Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and
Human Rights Commission, EHR) spent a great deal
of your money and mine in telling schools to ban books which showed boys taking the lead or doing adventurous things, on the
grounds that such books
were «sexist».
There
is another literature that argues for the preservation
of species on the
grounds of their possible eventual usefulness to
human beings.
While Lewis's remarks do not indicate any careful reading
of Luther, it
is true that Camus rejects a notion
of «salvation by faith alone» on the
grounds that it eliminates
human freedom and, to that extent, would not accept the God
of Luther, Calvin, or the later Augustine.
There might
be some truth in the old gibe
of pie - in - the - sky if we found all Christians doing absolutely nothing to better the world, on the
grounds that they have Heaven to look forward to; and all the atheists working like mad to relieve every form
of human distress, since this life
is all that we have!
Instead, I will assume that the case for neoclassical metaphysics can otherwise
be made and attempt programmatically to show that the comprehensive purpose it formulates
grounds justice as compound,
grounds a substantive principle
of justice that consistently implies the formative
human rights
of communicative respect.7 Toward the conclusion
of this argument, I will also seek to identify an inclusive
human right that
is substantive in character.
If the framers
of the Constitution had
been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common
human nature rather than on weaker procedural
grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion
of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.
The modern sciences
of genetics and ecology have clearly provided empirical
grounds for rejecting these traditional race concepts and for recognizing the fundamental role
of education in the creation
of human personality — especially in respect to qualities that
are so manifestly reflections
of cultural patterns.
Nevertheless, there
is a historical connection between Jesus and the metaphysical claims about him, and the fundamental
grounds of this connection in the
human figure
are as clear now as ever.
We
are urged to believe various doctrines concerning the incarnation, the atonement, and the resurrection
of Christ for which philosophical evidence or argument
is quite inadequate, on the
grounds that in these religious matters
human knowledge can never suffice.
For if this possibility
is excluded on a priori
grounds, the experience must
be interpreted another way: as an unwarranted enthusiasm, as the presence
of human love in community, as the activity
of God mediated through the community's memory
of Jesus, or what have you.
Tautly drawn between life and death, both men decide; on different
grounds, to
be sure, but on
grounds comprehensible from within the generality
of human experience.
On the other hand he contrasts his theory
of becoming with Bergson's on the
grounds that the latter denies to the
human intellect the power to grasp pure becoming as such and by means
of spatialized images to achieve an insight into its true
being.
One could go on with these natural
grounds, but for Christians there
is one fact which
is more significant than any
of the natural bases for
human fellowship.
Since then the emphasis has
been on the positing, that
is, on the
human act that
grounds affirmation
of God, rather than on the reality
of what
is posited.
Our spiritual judgment, I said, our opinion
of the significance and value
of a
human event or condition, must
be decided on empirical
grounds exclusively.
«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history
of religions, 4 Ricoeur
is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible
of the interpretation
of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy
of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in
being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts
of texts in which
human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious
grounds of hope.
He thinks the growing movement to defend
human rights and religious liberty, and the Christian - Islamic dialogue in particular, can produce something
of real value, as the Christian - Jewish dialogue has: «Just as Christianity has evolved, then, there
are reasonable
grounds for thinking that Islam will do so, too.
Modern science and technology would have to
be more modest,
human rights would have to receive better
grounds and
be coupled with duties and gratitude, and the validity
of a «personal point
of view» on things would have to
be recognized.
A decision to negotiate from within one
of these two types and on its
grounds is at the same time, however implicitly, a decision to adopt its underlying assumptions about what it
is to
be human.
The papers in Part One, «The Evolution
of Mind,» describes the mystery
of the rise
of self conscious,
human, purposive action out
of a flux in which it has
been customary to find no
grounds for such an emergence.
In any case, I believe it
is clear that Mill
grounds his «proof»
of the principle
of utility on what he believes to
be observable regularities
of human nature.
In fact, one can detect the tension in their view
of nature simply on Rousseau's
grounds: nature
is the seat
of goodness but
human beings are not constrained by it, characterized as they
are by «infinite perfectibility», or the capacity for perpetual self - transformation beyond our natural condition.
[2] In the strict sense, however, agnosticism
is the view that
human reason
is incapable
of providing sufficient rational
grounds to justify the belief that deities either do or do not exist.
We
are told that this «analogical relationship» «
grounds human freedom» and that «the metaphysical form
of the relationship»
is not «established» without it.
The legal difference in the status
of mothers and fathers could potentially
be challengeable on
human rights
grounds — this needs to
be checked as the new proposal
is considered.
AIMSI campaigns on the
grounds that birth choice
is a basic
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There
is of course a strong religious lobby with deep roots in and outside
of Labour which does not wholly share our values
of social justice,
human rights and equality and which
is desperate not to lose its privileges nor one
of its best recruiting
grounds through running schools.
EU citizens also enjoy legal protections
of the EU law, [7] specifically the Charter
of Fundamental Rights
of the European Union [8] and acts and directives regarding e. g. protection
of personal data, rights
of victims
of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in
human beings, equal pay, protection from discrimination in employment on
grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.
All other legal
grounds opposing the extradition in British courts have
been dealt with, but Mr Johnson could still block the move on the
grounds the extradition could contravene article three
of the
Human Rights Act.
Both
Ms Riddick, whose children attend schools in the Vale
of Glamorgan, and Humanists UK
were given permission to challenge the Council's decision on the
grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against humanists and has the effect
of relegating non-religious worldviews below religions in a way which fails to comply with the
Human Rights Act and European Convention on
Human Rights.
Michael Gove's defence
of his leader on the
grounds that he possesses «basic
human decency» shows just how desperate the Tory high command's position now
is.
The Cuban government does not publish statistics on the number
of people convicted on these
grounds, but the non-governmental Cuban commission for
human rights and national reconciliation, estimates that there
are currently between 3,000 and 5,000 people in prison in Cuba convicted
of «pre-criminal social dangerousness.»
According to the report, Üskül likely «
was dismissed as the head
of the constitutional law department» because
of a petition he had brought «to the Turkish parliament's
Human Rights Commission objecting to an optical fingerprint scanning security system installed on campus on the
grounds that it harmed academic freedom.»
There
are those who
are opposed to prohibition on the
grounds that such legislation infringes a basic
human freedom over the control
of our states
of mind.
Some people
are uncomfortable with the idea
of creating children with three parents on religious or moral
grounds and others have denounced it as the first steps to the genetic engineering
of human beings.
Actor turned director Joel David Moore's film on the topic
of legal
human euthanasia isn't the first
of 2016 to cover such
grounds.
My approach to teaching and learning
grounds itself in the premise that learning
is a
human condition, and that school should
be a place that not only sets children up for a lifetime
of loving learning, but also helps them to see the relevance and empowerment that can come from
being an autonomous learner.
Like RM, I fear they will continue the dumbing down
of driving as a skill, lead to an «it wasn't me, it
was the car» culture and ultimately legislate real drivers off the road, on the
grounds that they
're too great a liability, due to
being human.
But the existence
of this negative potential does not give us
grounds to suppose that
human nature
is inherently violent, or even necessarily disposed toward violence.
Suzi
is 50 years old and applies to the Department
of Human Services to withdraw some super on compassionate
grounds.
It
's also part
of the greater recreation
grounds known as The Forks, which
is home to the Canadian Museum
of Human Rights.
The
grounds are a beautifully kept, serene place to visit and tour the historical section for a glimpse into the duration and depth
of the
human - animal bond.
The four - hour festivities
were staged on the Friends
of Cats shelter
grounds in El Cajon on May 7, where a multigenerational gathering
of partygoers came together for celebrating all things cat - related, and especially for raising money to support the group's efforts and pairing
humans with cats for adoption.
human encrouchment on beach nesting
grounds probably
is more
of a threat to the birds then cats - it
's just convenient to blame the poor cats than the
humans who
are itching to build their dream house on the beach or to drag their familites en masse to the dunes and sand for summer recreation.
afterall, the feral cat problem
is a
human created situation as
is the threat to the nesting
grounds of the sorts
of birds who nest on the beach.
Plantsmanship, aesthetic sensibility and
human experience
of the natural environment
are the horticultural emphasis
of Wave Hill's 28 acres
of gardens,
grounds and woodland.
On these
grounds, the most introspective, serious and moving
of all these posters has to
be Fiona Banner's design for the Paralympics, a painted prose poem about the wonder
of human, or superhuman, achievement.