Sentences with phrase «human achievement as»

Coors Light recently decided to talk more about its beer and less about human achievement as it seeks to reverse a sales slump.

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As the name implies, a fixed mindset is a belief system that presumes that human achievement is based primarily on innate gifts.

During this milestone year, the tireless human rights organization celebrates its proudest achievements as it continues to prove its work is far from done.

This comparison is not as outrageous as it seems: Like monasticism, science is an enterprise with a superhuman aim whose achievement is forever beyond the capacities of the flawed humans who aspire toward it.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

He reminded the diplomats and dignitaries that the UDHR «was adopted as a «common standard of achievement» and can not be applied piecemeal, according to trends or selective choices that merely run the risk of contradicting the unity of the human person and thus the indivisibility of human rights.»

But, then, the inherited world is also more important insofar as it includes human achievements.

In line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational form.

Quite as remarkable is his habit of being unimpressed by what was, and is still in some quarters, regarded as a sign of God's favor and the peak of human achievement — the possession of property and riches.

Any one, therefore, holding a religious rather than a materialistic philosophy, will think of the process of Biblical development as dual — seen from one side, a human achievement; seen from the other, a divine self - revelation.

As this vocation is lived in the sober unity of scientific knowledge and human achievement it is prevented from becoming mere humanitarian twaddle.

The new creation beckons us beyond the bored images and achievements of what we already are; it is a promise for the human, not just for the human as male or female.

Because the order created by human achievements is greater insofar as each individual benefits from and contributes to it, our comprehensive telos prescribes pursuit of everyone's emancipation.

Does it not fail to take into account our moral achievements, our merits, our greatness, our reality as human beings, which must be respected?

Its achievement is through the spiritual energy imparted by His spirit in human hearts, but its final consummation comes slowly through the joint efforts of God and man, working side by side, in the struggle to create a new and divine order and to make His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Her crowning achievement, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, is paradigmatic of the «Post-Whiteheadian» philosophizing this volume celebrates, and it is most appropriate that her spirit, as well as her title, hover over these explorations of «Philosophy After Whitehead.»

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

This has produced a rather dreary and pessimistic picture of human nature and the tendency to consider its higher values and achievements as derived only from the lower drives, through processes of reaction formation, transformation, and sublimation.

Buddhism, as the culminating achievement of India, lies side by side with Christianity as an alternative mode of human realization.

Here the point is that just as the growth of the seed is not a process man controls, so the kingdom of God is not a human achievement but a gift of God.

Christianity, they say, is a religion of crisis, a judgment which regards even the highest achievements of human culture as vitiated by man's fallen nature and doomed to destruction.»

There is also the hiatus between his aspiration and his achievement — as in all human projects.

I acknowledge that the social environments of family, race, class, education, work, culture, cult and nation are the inescapably human contexts that shape all our possibilities and achievements as well as our blindnesses and follies.

The achievement of Aristotle which bears essentially upon my understanding of the importance of Whitehead is the incredibly subtle and suggestive manner in which Aristotle succeeds in doing justice to human being as a part of nature.

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

«20 God could not become a man without thereby abandoning his divinity (as in Altizer's Sabellianism), but he becomes fully human in intimately incorporating into his own being peculiarly human experiences and sensitivities, thus accepting an inexhaustible concern for human purposes, achievements, and failures.

As Niebuhr described it, the favorite strategy of avoiding the paradox is to claim the achievement of perfection (which in turn becomes a source of human arrogance).

His critique of liberalism, as he puts it in After Virtue, «derives from a judgment that the best type of human life, that in which the tradition of the virtues is most adequately embodied, is lived by those engaged in constructing and sustaining forms of community directed towards the shared achievement of those common goods without which the ultimate human good can not be achieved.

Tinder, however, has no patience with those who use this gap between human achievement and Christian hope as an excuse for inaction.

This refers not only to other historic religions, which also produce high fruits of human achievement — whether or not in as great numbers or with as much efficiency as Christianity we are not concerned to say at this point but to movements and influences not ordinarily called religious.

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

The irony is that every generation considers their current level of knowledge as the pinnacle of human achievement.

The Reformers» alternative conception of the way of love in the world begins with the insight that the tendency of man is to seek self - justification and to think of ethical perfection as an achievement of human freedom.

God treats us as sons and daughters, providing attractions from his or her circumambient love and usually under creaturely incognitos (including above all our fellow humans), which can save us from ourselves and set us on the path toward fuller shared existence here and now, with the promise that our achievements, when they are for good, will be received by God.

Confession becomes prayer when it is made with a consciousness of the limitlessness of the possibilities of goodness against which every human achievement must appear as a relative failure.

Because association is indispensible to an understanding of the achievement of the best of human possibilities, such as art, science, philosophy, religion, society.

What is unshakeable is that God in his great wisdom has put us all here and I believe that as human beings our greatest achievement will be to truly love and respect one another regardless of race, gender, appearance, faith or lack of faith.

If repugs could believe in human achievement and science as much as they believe in a creation myth it would be a start toward becoming a party people othere than old angry white guys (I'm an old white guy, just not angry) could believe in.

Law is not a work of heteronomous (external) imposition but a work of wisdom, and good law facilitates our achievement of the human goods that we instinctively seek because of who we are and what we are meant to be as human beings.

Since all of us are filled with admiration for the achievements of science and since all of us desire to practice and propagate such human virtues as friendliness, tolerance, good humor, sympathy and courage, we unconsciously assent to scientific humanism as a working philosophy of life.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

As Jesse Norman and Peter Oborne have noted in their pamphlet Churchill's Legacy: The Conservative Case for the Human Rights Act, the ECHR stands as a formidable political achievement, and it would send a terrible message both to our European allies and to the world if we withdrew from iAs Jesse Norman and Peter Oborne have noted in their pamphlet Churchill's Legacy: The Conservative Case for the Human Rights Act, the ECHR stands as a formidable political achievement, and it would send a terrible message both to our European allies and to the world if we withdrew from ias a formidable political achievement, and it would send a terrible message both to our European allies and to the world if we withdrew from it.

The genome - editing technique earned top honors, in part because of achievements such as «the creation of a long - sought «gene drive» that could eliminate pests or the diseases they carry, and the first deliberate editing of the DNA of human embryos.»

Hublin, who accepts that Neandertals were cognitively sophisticated but believes their cultural achievements fell short of modern humans», is impatient with what he sees as Zilhão's absolutism.

It is a far more remarkable achievement than merely canalizing energy flow through the human species, as by bringing wild lands under pasture, regardless of a declining rate of flow through the ecosystem as a whole.

«One hopes,» Repcheck writes, «that he had at least a glimmer of the ultimate impact of his achievement as he lay on his bed after his stroke in the winter of 1543, waiting to meet his God, whose beautiful creation he had seen more clearly than any human before him.»

«Major sporting events such as the Olympic Games highlight extraordinary human athletic achievements, performed by the extreme physical outliers of our species,» he wrote in the review.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.