Stephen Boyden adds a biological prefix and puts the study of
human affairs where it belongs - in the biosphere, the natural world.
Not exact matches
Most of those concerns focus on the singularity, a soon - to - arrive crossover point in the
affairs of man and machine,
where machines overtake
human intelligence, and we cease to be the most interesting feature of the planet.
If we're honest, this state of
affairs is what every
human heart longs for and wants to return to — a world
where the things we touch cooperate and flourish at our hands, a world free of material decay and relational static.
There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church
affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam,
where theocracy rules over all
human affairs.
Moreover, the faith that YHWH was the Lord of history meant that in contrast with the mythological cultures,
where the gods were little interested in
human affairs, the spotlight of divine concern was pointed directly to the
human scene.
At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in
human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions
where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or
where it is bitterly persecuted.
In this respect too, the movement is becoming generalized and is accelerating to the point
where we must be blind not to see in it an essential trend in
human affairs.
Unlike the cult of sacred sexuality, the cult of Yahweh did not lead to otherworldly ecstasy; rather, it directed people back into the world,
where their task was to do God's will in
human affairs.
Atheists keep trying to apply scientifc rules of evidence
where they don't belong — to matters of
human affairs — yet are perfectly content to throw away the same rules when it suits their purposes (e.g., evolution).
Over the years, however, I've come to believe that history, literature, and the arts provide a more promising place to start on the ladder of intellectual love, for they train us to savor truth amid the flux and flow of
human affairs, which is
where we're destined to live.
Adrienne Long, from the Office of Child Labour, Forced Labour and
Human Trafficking in the Bureau of International Labour
Affairs at the U.S Department of Labour was at the Agency's headquarters recently
where she met with the DG, Dame Julie Okah - Donli, as part of her visit to Abuja.
«There are adequate, if not overwhelming, reasons to be concerned that the two repositories that are under debate right now are not the only places in the world
where live smallpox virus still exists,» says Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Health
Affairs at the US Department of Health and
Human Services, and head of the US delegation to the Geneva meeting.
Most recently, Mukherjee has been studying and working in the labs of CSNE member, Eric Rombokas, and Patrick Aubin at the Department of Veteran
Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Limb Loss and MoBility
where he is designing mechanical interfaces between
humans and machines.
True Blood is a sexy
affair that sets up an entirely believable world
where humans and vampires co-exist.
Kristen Baldwin joins DOT from the Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of the Secretary,
where she worked in the Web Communications Division of the Assistant Secretary for Public
Affairs.
However, such control needs to consider various aspects such as the nationality of offenders and / or victims, territory
where the company has violated
human rights, and non-intervention of other state's internal
affairs (Background Paper 4).
I'll be writing lots more on another theme explored by Mr. Crichton, the importance of creating flexible approaches to complicated systems that are important to
human affairs — systems
where what is not known is likely to be as critical as what is understood.
In May 2013, Germany's Minister of Foreign
Affairs Guido Westerwelle told Die Weit that he shares the concern over autonomous weapons, stating, «I don't want a situation
where human decision - making is removed and delegated to machines.»