Sentences with phrase «human capacity from»

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I've heard it said that the thing that separates humans from the other great apes (beyond opposable thumbs and better haircuts) is our capacity to delay near - term gratification in pursuit of a superior downstream payoff.

From thought patterns to emotions, every facet of human expression dwells within the extraordinary capacity of our gray - and - white matter.

While Sirius was wrought from Rothblatt's passions regarding the commercial capacities of outer space, today she is on the hunt for immortality, a pursuit that currently includes the creation of robots called «mindclones,» or digital replicas of human minds.

A firm's capacity to emerge stronger from adversity is similar to muscle growth in the human body.

The second natural tendency toward religion springs from the human capacity to recognize problems and our desire to solve them.

This was the Incarnation: Et Verbum caro factum est. 20 And from this first, basic contact of God with our human race, and precisely by virtue of this penetration of the divine into our human nature, a new life was born: that unforeseeable aggrandizement and «obediential ’21 extension of our natural capacities which we call «grace».

Murray observes in the last chapter that «human beings acting in a private capacity if restrained from the use of force have a remarkably good history» (author's emphasis).

Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.

Whitehead distinguishes human beings from animals on the basis of different capacities for the inhibition of symbolic reference.

Transcendence is defined as the reappropriation of the world from the standpoint of the human capacity to be the subject of projects.

69 The biblical interpretation of human history rejects the pathetic (the pain caused by unthinking natural evil) and the tragic (a conscious choice of evil for the sake of good) for the ironic (evil resulting from man's wrong use of his unique capacities).

«155 Peter Hamilton holds the same view, and from it he draws three implications: 156 First, while human occasions possess greater significance due to their capacity for a conscious relationship with God, in some measure all entities contribute everlastingly to the divine life.

Descending the scale of organic being is an exercise during which we peel off layer after layer of human «capacities,» during which we watch the distinctively human fade from realization into irrelevance.

From these few lines it should be clear that, relating to you in their professional capacity, they are highly limited human beings.

This means that none of these three human capacities can operate independently from the others and remain what it is meant to be.

In his recent best seller, Alvin Toffler argued that many among us are already suffering from «future shock,» an illness with both physical and emotional symptoms resulting from exposure to change beyond the adaptive capacities of the human system.

At that time human beings were distinguished from «lower» animals by virtue of the human capacity to think and make moral choices.

First, it displays an unwarranted distrust of human nature and of the created order inasmuch as it denies our native capacity to know something of sacred mystery apart from our being specifically Christianized.

This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.

From what we have already said about prayer, it is clear that the prayer - situation is one which is supremely relevant to the fulfillment of the highest human potentiality (e.g., envisaging of ideal possibilities) and which calls for the exercise of the distinctively human capacities (e.g., imagination, reflection, deep feeling).

This implication is derived from one of the most valuable insights of process thought, namely, that each of us is not only an intellect, not only a rational being with some capacity to learn truth, not only a will to be taught to strive and struggle — human beings are supremely sensitive, desiring, feeling, appreciating, and valuing beings.

To fall away from it is to fail the human goal and at the same time to fail the cosmic process and the God who is the basic thrust or drive in that process, Our deepest human problem is to know and use, through decision, this capacity to develop toward fulfillment.

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

Take, for instance, St Augustine's use of a human being's mental capacities as an analogy of the processions of the Divine Persons in the Trinity: just as the Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, a concept in the human mind is conceived (or born) in the intellect and from this breaks forth a movement of love in the will.

(From my Whiteheadian viewpoint, Buddhism seems subtly to have exaggerated the capacity of an actual occasion of human experience to determine its own relation to its predecessors.

The heterosexually oriented majority in the church has much to gain from a deeper grappling with this issue: an enriched capacity to love other human beings more fully and with less fear.

On St. Thomas's view, freedom is in fact the great organizing principle of the moral life — and since the very possibility of a moral life (the capacity to think and choose) is what distinguishes the human person from the rest of the natural world, freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

When these steps have been taken, we shall be freed from being driven to the construction of implausible just - so stories, alleging that human capacities of which we have basic experience are totally different in character from what we, in fact, know them to be.

Many of the elements basic to a Christian way of life were first basic to a Jewish way of life: a reverence for the Scriptures; a sense of the sacred; respect for the law; humility before the transcendent; the cherishing of the human capacity for reflection and choice; the sharp taste of the existing (as distinct from non-existing), and of being (as opposed to nonbeing), and therefore of the blessed contingency of this created world; the practice of compassion; the ideal of friendship with God and of «walking with God»; the habit of prayer; and a sense of the presence of God during the activities of every day — all these are habits of life that Christians share with Jews and have learned from Judaism.

To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.

From many sad experiences, the world has learned that the source of human creativity is the human capacity for reflective choice.

This principle flows from the reality of the human person, an autonomous creature whose essential nature consists in a capacity for reflection and choice.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

The human rights lawyer had asked the court to restrain the FederalGovernment of Nigeria, the EFCC and all other authorities from recognizing Magu as the chairman of EFCC, either in acting or substantive capacity.

«I hope you will agree with me that a weapon with the capacity to kill a human from over a mile away, pierce body and vehicle armor, and destroy military and civilian infrastructure should not be available in New York State without registration and without even a permit.

«As technical and technically driven as GNPC's operations, the corporation is committed to supporting the development of human capacity among Ghanaians to ensure greater participation from citizens and locals in Ghana's oil and gas exploration...

In 2009, the American Psychiatric Association awarded Dr. Okin and Mental Disability Rights International their human rights award «to recognize an individual and an organization exemplifying the capacity of human beings to protect others from the damage related to the professional, scientific, and clinical dimensions of mental health, at the hands of other human beings.»

It is important, he said, to turn the human capacity for cooperation away from destruction and toward creation.

In its present form, therefore, it has shown no capacity to turn from a well - adapted chicken disease to a human one.

«It provides a unique vantage point from which to consider the intricate interface between capacities inherent in the human infant and the shaping force of experience,» said Sandra Waxman, senior author of the study, director of the Project on Child Development, faculty fellow in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology at Northwestern.

Nor can such machines equal the human brain's capacity to learn from experience and make predictions based on memory.

Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis has spent the last 25 years studying the molecular mechanisms underlying the capacity for spoken language, one of the crucial traits that differentiates humans from other animals.

From the moment of birth humans possess the capacity to make distinctions between speakers of their native language and others, which helps understand how infants and young children are tuned to quickly acquire the knowledge of their society and adopt to their cultural environment,» said Dr. Marno.

Janet Zinser received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and has worked for the University for over 10 years in several different capacities, including an employment specialist for human resources.

Some populations migrate 2,500 km each autumn from Svalbard to Scotland, yet in the run up to migration they fly for only a few minutes each day — short bursts of flight that perhaps mirror the modern high - intensity training (HIT) regimes human athletes use to boost maximal aerobic capacity.

«The ABICABAZI trial puts these ideas to the test in humans, and if we are correct, has the capacity for the first time to tell us what patients might most benefit from chemotherapy.»

Intelligence may originate from the central role of relationships in human life and therefore may be tied to social and emotional capacities.»

A key aspect of the system will be its capacity to adapt to individual users» experiences, modifying the guidance it provides as the machine «learns» from its landscape and from the human interaction.

The ability to piece together phrases in different combinations provides unlimited communicative capacity and helps distinguish humans from other species.

What critics like English linguist Geoffrey Sampson, author of Educating Eve: The «Language Instinct» Debate, seem to find most irksome is Pinker's wholehearted promotion of a linguistic model that views the human capacity for learning language as distinct from other abilities, such as building bridges or writing symphonies.