Sentences with phrase «human aspiration»

It's just a reality to keep in mind on the path toward fitting human aspirations on a finite planet.

Human aspirations for progress can only be realized by agreed values and standards applying to all people and institutions at all times.

An aesthetic notion of cosmic purpose is capable of embracing the mythic and religious representations of human aspiration as well as accommodating the modern scientific understanding of the universe.

With the 704th post on this exploration of ways to mesh infinite human aspirations with life on a finite planet, I'm taking a break to pick some backyard blackberries (video above; watch in HD mode), go camping on a beach in eastern Long Island and «review the bidding,» as my colleague and friend Cornelia Dean likes to say.

It suggests that Environmentalism has less to do with saving the planet than it does with reining in human aspirations.

In the talk, which goes from Darwin's «Descent of Man» to Twitter, I explore the role of communication innovation, in concert with the broadened view of community that comes with global connectedness, in fitting infinite human aspirations on a finite planet.

This is not the only element required to mesh human aspirations with life on a finite planet.

As I've written here before, finding and disseminating education methods that foster creative, collaborative and resilient learning and problem solving is a prime path toward fitting human aspirations on a finite planet.

The main point of all my writing on this subject has been to raise our sights above what Pope John Paul II called «economism» — a view of economies driven solely by a materialist, economic understanding of self - interest, the profit motive, cupidity, and greed, and a denial of all the nobler human aspirations.

This trend was evident years ago when the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights ticked off as rights a list of what would more accurately be described as human aspirations and desires.

I'm concerned about a society in which people refuse to take responsibility for themselves, about a society in which human aspirations are short - circuited because achieving them is too difficult and too painful.

The door is thus opened for the classical theist to affirm the genuineness of nonmoral evil as the evil clashes between nature and human aspirations need not be acknowledged as willed by God by the classical theist who consistently draws out the implications of the free - will defense for the natural order.

For the men with hard faces, the men who lust for power and see their fellows as no more than units in a machine, know intuitively that the Church is the implacable champion of human liberty, of the truly human values and the finest human aspirations.

The flaws in Walzer's analysis of the liberationist project stem from his inclination to see religious and conservative countermovements as problems to be solved rather than as expressions of genuine and worthy human aspirations.

Hence, rational man no longer stood before a mysterious and foreign reality, in front of which he must grovel and to which he must sacrifice his distinctively human aspirations.

Genuine human aspirations and perennial values got entangled with the bitter fruits of Western apostasy, which corrupted the process of globalisation from within.

An adequate Christian theology of history and revelation maintains that only by trusting in the promise of history, without either fleeing it or nullifying it, do we find a security proportionate to the incalculability of God's future, as well as to our deepest human aspirations.

As an infused grace, this hope perfects and elevates human aspirations and actions for divine union.

Put yourself in the shoes of those who love another person and want to officially and publicly promise to spend the rest of their lives in mutual trust, commitment and love as a normal human aspiration.

The dialogue between faith and reason, religion and science, does not only make it possible to show people of our time the reasonableness of faith in God as effectively and convincingly as possible, but also to demonstrate that the definitive fulfillment of every authentic human aspiration rests in Jesus Christ.

By criticizing a premature absolute, such as communism, the Christian intends not to dampen human aspiration, but rather to avoid the petrifaction which hinders further development of love, justice and personal expression.

It corresponds to all of Maslow's pyramid of needs, from most basic to self - transcendence, which are universal human aspirations.

Here's a little pause, after days focused on numbers (gigawatts of electrical generation, gigatons of emissions, square miles of sea ice), to reflect on the value judgments underlying efforts to mesh boundless human aspirations with life on a finite planet.

The metaphor of God's substitution is the only one of the familiar theories of atonement that provides for the full failed weight of human aspiration.

The drama of the future of the Amazon basin is indeed playing out here in western Amazônia, in the tri-national region called by the acronym MAP — Madre de Dios in Peru, Acre in Brazil and Pando in Bolivia — where the biodiversity of nature's garden is connecting with human aspirations for economic development and a better life.

The piece focused on Will Wright, the mind behind Spore and The Sims, and solicited questions for Wright as well as others» views on the notion that virtual experiences can help fit infinite human aspirations on a finite planet.

Christ above culture: Christianity brings the culture up to a higher level of fulfillment; culture leads people to Christ, but Christ then enters into the situation from above with gifts which human aspiration can not attain and «draws up» the society to higher levels of social attainment.

Not only does the report clearly not do what it claims to do, and not only is this another instance of Big Insurance joining forces with Big Environment to whip up alarm (not to mention premiums) about environmental risks (Allianz join Munich Re, RMS and Catlin), but, by ranking countries in terms of energy — rather than CO2 — production, it also supports our suggestion that Environmentalism has less to do with saving the planet than it does with reining in human aspirations.

Here are some end - of - year thoughts on ways to fit human aspirations on a finite planet, expressed during a recent short interview taped while I was participating in this years Business for Social Responsibility (aka BSR) conference (more interviews and talks are here).

A few reviews of the Pace students» film have started to come in, including these thoughts from Carl Safina, the marine biologist, conservationist and author of a string of fine books exploring marine life and ways to fit human aspirations on a finite planet:

To a large extent, we have to buckle up and hang on for the ride, even as efforts are made to mesh human aspirations with both the limits of known resources and our capacity to innovate.

«Being» does not accept men; it lacks any positive or negative relationship to human aspirations.

It is time to ask why Catholic Lite has been such an abysmal failure in forming public moral cultures in which self - gift, not self - aggrandizement, is the touchstone of human aspiration.

This is a human aspiration and humans will use whatever ideologies are at their disposal to exercise power over others to attain that goal.

But the symbols of power and human aspiration that move our society today may be available for religious music, especially for the young.

A passionate faith in the purpose and splendour of human aspirations must be the flame that illumines his teaching.

It is Wisdom that speaks: wisdom which just now we have seen to he the finest attainment of human aspiration.

There you have it: the elders offering final counsel to the successor generation, the beneficiaries of the greatest educational system in the world, the bearers of civilization's legacy across new frontiers of human aspiration and achievement.