Sentences with phrase «human aspirations»

«The future will depend on the nature of human aspirations... and how can we ever model those?»

This book draws on themes invoked by such thought leaders as architect / designer William McDonough, journalist Thomas Friedman and venture capitalist John Doerr about inspiring human creativity and finding hope in human aspirations and nature's abundance — and points us to a strategic vision for the next decades.

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.

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

«The story of oil at its core is one of human aspirations, human challenges, and human triumphs.

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.

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.

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

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.

This body of analysis is closely related to the core focus of this blog: finding ways to fit infinite human aspirations (and appetites) on a finite planet.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

No hidden agenda, «buying women» - «selling themselves», just natural human aspirations.

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 other is social progress — the realization of civilization's maximum potential as a favorable environment for human aspirations.

Communist dogma goes on to state that economic forces — not human aspirations for freedom, nor other political ideals — are the real shapers of history.

Let us look well and we shall find that our Faith in God, detached as it may be, sublimates in us a rising tide of human aspirations.

As both a temporal and spiritual being, (one can not) be involved in a purely «horizontal» or purely «vertical» activity; the horizontal / vertical, the social / spiritual dimensions meet in human nature and in all human aspirations and activities....

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

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.

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.

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.

Human aspirations are watered down to skilful shopping behavior and channeled into a stale consumerism.

The Renaissance appreciated human aspirations and the continued new possibilities of the good.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If the crime of transgression represents the human aspiration to self - sufficiency and godliness (free choice necessarily implying humanly grounded knowledge of good and bad), the so - called punishment thwarts that aspiration by opposition: human beings instead of self - sufficiency receive estrangement, dependence, division, and rule.

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.

Here is a movie from a director who had gotten typed into being a success only in x-treme cinema, set in another country, often in another language, with three sets of young, inexperienced actors playing the same kids from single - digits to 20 - ish, delving into the internationalism of both human aspiration and the medium of television -LSB-...]

Aeronautical and astronomical science, deep - sea exploration, and extreme climatology are but some of the thematic arenas out of which Strachan creates performative allegories that tell of cultural displacement, human aspiration, and mortal limitation.

These pictures evoke the human aspiration — and inability — to harness time and nature.

With his new body of work, Ian Stell concerns himself with amplifying the human aspiration and fear that echoes through the essential structures with which we surround ourselves.

His works across media — which evoke a pop sensibility in contrast to their grim titles, such as They Endorsed Collective Failure as the Dawn of a New Renaissance and The Bitterness of What Could Have Happened and What Ended Up Happening — speak to our collective ambition for a utopian future and the inherent failure of this human aspiration.

Clyfford Still's career focused on human aspiration, the personal search for identity, and the liberation of the spirit.

Inspired by Lon Fuller, who, in Rod Macdonald's words, «saw law as a human project, a human accomplishment, and a human aspiration that emerges from ongoing patterns of human interaction and the reciprocal adjustment of human expectation,» he conceived legal education as being, at its core, learning how «to attend to the complexities of human beings in interaction with each other,» stating that we should teach how law could be «a facilitator of human interaction» and «about finding social outcomes that help solve human problems [rather than] perfecting abstract concepts to solve legal puzzles.»

Freedom uplifts human aspiration.

Not exact matches

«The system,» Freeland said, «had at its heart the core notions of territorial integrity, human rights, democracy, respect for the rule of law, and an aspiration to free and friendly trade.»

As for me, I am a master's student in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, currently reflecting on my professional aspirations.

Ultimately, a healthy society creates expanding demand for business, as more human needs are met and aspirations grow.

In human society this aspiration is expressed by a desire to find significances and uses for things which otherwise have none, assigning meaning to things by virtue of their affinity to other things or personalities available in the natural world.

It wants to convince us that human bodies provide us with raw material to be formed and reformed as we think best suits our dreams and aspirations.