«On one hand,» she has said, «I shoot disconcerting questions at the spectator, to which I do not give any reassuring answers; on the other hand, the presence of
human characteristics in my figures is familiar, and therefore comforting.»
«The heroes are peace - loving mice, moles, shrews, squirrels, and their friends who exhibit
human characteristics in a medieval setting,» states the site's author.
Here's where technology is encouraging us to display some of our most fundamental
human characteristics in new ways.
(How we respond to
this human characteristic in our children helps to determine whether it has lasting negative effects.)
Not exact matches
Kindness will take you further
in life than any other
human characteristic.
In my experience, it can make a big difference in your targeting, because Facebook evaluates tens or hundreds of characteristics and signals, which we humans simply can not d
In my experience, it can make a big difference
in your targeting, because Facebook evaluates tens or hundreds of characteristics and signals, which we humans simply can not d
in your targeting, because Facebook evaluates tens or hundreds of
characteristics and signals, which we
humans simply can not do.
Microsoft's (msft) ill - fated Tay bot experiment
in which online commenters taught the bot — basically software that takes on
human characteristics powered by artificial intelligence — to say racist and sexist things also illustrates this point.
It is common for every trader to see
in themselves some of the
characteristics highlighted
in this article; we are all
human.
Usually our good fortunes, such as our physique, wealth, education, intelligence over others, etc. will cloud our minds and create arrogance
in us, which is an ugly
human characteristic.
When Pope John Paul II spoke on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of the UDHR
in 1998, he warned, «Certain shadows however hover over the anniversary, consisting
in the reservations being expressed
in relation to two essential
characteristics of the very idea of
human rights: their universality and their indivisibility.»
Indeed, Dr. David King, director of
Human Genetics Alert, recently warned a Reuters reporter that CRISPR could «create this new form of consumer eugenics
in which people choose the cosmetic
characteristics and abilities of their children and enhance them to perform better than other people's children.»
And he further commends as «the essential
characteristic of
human existence... «that man is an individual and as such is at once himself and the whole race,
in such wise that the whole race has part
in the individual, and the individual has part
in the whole race» (CD 26).
The way of touching is the way back to reality, back to the interpersonal as the
characteristic human way of becoming a self and of being
in the world.
I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range of
human experience and condemn those biblical passages as the product of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary
characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case of the hots for the little girls
in the naboring tribes.
Rather, specifically
human existence is,
in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining
characteristic that makes the man or woman
in question just this individual and not some other.
Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of se - xual orientation is that it is a
human characteristic that is formed early
in life, and is resistant to change.
I also believe that,
in spite of Whitehead's reluctance to concede privileged status to
human occasions of experience, the introduction of the wide range of conscious anticipation of the future which humanity represents
in comparison to lesser types of existence also introduces justice as a
characteristic of the specially
human aim at harmonious beauty.
However as my exposure to your writing increased I started to think that what you were describing as «Church» related problems were
in fact fundamental
characteristics of
human nature.
God took on
human form and
characteristics, but Jesus was not
in any full sense a
human being.
Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of sexual orientation is that it is a
human characteristic that is formed early
in life, and is resistant to change.
This is the
characteristic mood of our times,
in which not even the colossal destructiveness of two world wars and the possibility of the third have greatly disturbed our trust
in human achievement.
Both
in the secular world and
in the church, our
characteristic approach to
human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.
However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most
characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known,
in chemical and physical phenomena.
Vorhanden, which Heidegger uses of the peculiar mode of being
characteristic of inanimate objects, as contrasted with responsible
human Dasein, I have translated by «tangible», as
in Bultmann the antithesis is not so much between Vorhandensein and Dasein as between the tangible realities of the visible world and eternal realities, very much like the Pauline contrast of kata sarka and kata pneuma.
implies an evernew historical synthesis between the constant nature of the Church and her concrete historical appearance, between
ins divinum and
ins humanum, between
human and divine
characteristics.
Of course, a
human experience has
characteristics we do not expect to find
in unicellular organisms, certainly not
in molecular or electronic events.
Not only
in the glory of creation» these mountains, this lake, this great night sky of the Alps» and not only
in his misericordia did God share with us insight into the special
characteristics of his love, but also
in sending us a
human model of it
in sending us his Son, who called us his friends, and sacrificed his life for us.
To the extent that the man - made setting of man's life and the setting which was naturally antecedent to
human freedom are specifically different, the latter being
characteristic of earlier times and the former of the present, we are now living
in a setting which almost
in its very essence is more complicated and intractable and inaccessible to the understanding of the individual than was ever the case before.
We treat racism as though it is the contained
characteristic of a specific species of
human beings known as racists, that lived
in a prior era of American history, but have now nearly become extinct.
Breeding for specific traits and
characteristics is nothing more than
human intervention
in natural selection.
From another angle, you could see pathos
in him, heroism
in his struggle,
in his willingness to risk...» That project, of exploring the spirit and limits of being
human, is, of course, a deeply
characteristic quality of Western literature and philosophy, from St. Augustine to Thomas Merton, from Meister Eckhart to William James and Albert Camus.
Accordingly, the inevitable historicity of all
human proceedings does nothing to show that various beliefs and behaviors can not be more than the
characteristic possession of a transient and temporary era
in the history of a particular culture.
You are applying
human characteristics to a divine being, that doesn't work.God is more complex than that, you are running a shell game and calling it reason, you are,
in this instance and for the cited reason, wrong.God is not a man, his ways are so far above mans ways, they can not be comprehended.You can not reduce God, and cite that as proof.
Metaphysics,
in that respect, is the study of the general
characteristics of reality by means of the description of changing presuppositions of
human thought, of which cosmology is a part.
Larger non-
human or inhuman systems, such as institutions, economies, governments, families, are not «adversarial,» «competitive» or «cruel» except
in our manners of speaking which project
human characteristics on groups and corporaton which are literally no thing: can't touch.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the
human condition
in its universal
characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal
in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all
humans, present and future, - the
human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of
humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
China does not have same democratic freedoms as understood
in the Western tradition, but the one fifth of the
human race
in China have realized a considerable improvement of their overall
human condition during the past few decades, with changes within their «socialism with Chinese
characteristics».
With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical
characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way
in which the
human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.
The first is
human dignity, which is
characteristic of our status
in between God and beasts: «Not simply body, but also not simply mind or spirit; rather, the place where body and spirit meet and are united (and reconciled?)
Tillich suggests several criteria for evaluating religious symbols,
in addition to this capacity for self - negation.30 A symbol of the ultimate must transcend the subject - object division, for the
characteristics of being - itself are equally present
in human life and beyond it; the symbol must express the basic unity of all things, of which man is aware
in the depths of his own being.
What the upheaval
in changing roles and identities is making clear is that the feelings and behaviors traditionally labeled either «feminine» or «masculine» are not
characteristic of either sex alone but are
human responses.
All the natural, objective
characteristics we observe
in human speech (which we have noted
in Chapter I) are such because they are the
characteristics of the Word as expression of God the creator.
All
human societies are ranked» that is, organized
in strata» though the
characteristics and the criteria of the different ranks differ considerably.
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In three controversial Wednesday Audiences, Pope John Paul II pointed out that the essential characteristic of heaven, hell or purgatory is that they are states of being of a spirit (angel / demon) or human soul, rather than places, as commonly perceived and represented in human languag
In three controversial Wednesday Audiences, Pope John Paul II pointed out that the essential
characteristic of heaven, hell or purgatory is that they are states of being of a spirit (angel / demon) or
human soul, rather than places, as commonly perceived and represented
in human languag
in human language.
In theological terms, Volf's enterprise has some of the characteristics of eschatology, in that it addresses the theme of the achievement of human perfection in the context of a future whose dynamism gains its moment from the activity in society of the transcendent Go
In theological terms, Volf's enterprise has some of the
characteristics of eschatology,
in that it addresses the theme of the achievement of human perfection in the context of a future whose dynamism gains its moment from the activity in society of the transcendent Go
in that it addresses the theme of the achievement of
human perfection
in the context of a future whose dynamism gains its moment from the activity in society of the transcendent Go
in the context of a future whose dynamism gains its moment from the activity
in society of the transcendent Go
in society of the transcendent God.
Symbol - making is a
characteristic mark of
human spirituality, about which more will be said
in the next chapter
in connection with language.
Human and institutional behavior both exhibit the formal
characteristics of purposiveness;
in particular, both have aims they seek to actualize.
Such freedom to hold to ones own beliefs, to give expression to them
in characteristic forms, and to tell others about them ought to be the privilege of all
human beings.
You people are all fools... the atheists for not believing
in any god and the christians for believing
in an anthropomorphic god (for those of you who are too dumb to know what that means it means having
human - like
characteristics) who
humans created to better relate to.
Whitehead's insistence upon the organismic connectedness of things is certainly conducive to answering this question by means of analogy and metaphor, mapping
in isomorphic fashion
characteristics of the actual occasion onto the macrocosmic objects of
human experience.