Sentences with phrase «human characteristics which»

Morality, love, ethics are all natural human characteristics which are based on survival of the species and evolve from societal needs.

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The idea of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there was even a book written about it, «The Myth of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that certain human characteristics made going paperless an impossible feat.

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 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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

The moral philosophy of Western Civilization perceives intrinsic human equality as an objective truth under which our moral status need not be earned by possessing favored characteristics; it comes with the package of species membership.

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.

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.

Or does the human have certain inherent characteristics and external influences which call for a more cautious estimation of each person's responsibility for moral behavior?

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.

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.

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.

Symbol - making is a characteristic mark of human spirituality, about which more will be said in the next chapter in connection with language.

Not only must the use of the radio spectrum, as a technical matter, be on terms which are mutually acceptable to the members of the human race, but through the ITU, its users contribute the knowledge of the propagation and other characteristics of the radio spectrum which is the by - product of its use.12.

-- We all came from apes which over millions of years changed so much as to make humans with all the different racial characteristics that we have today.

The second distinctive characteristic of the human level is that, despite periods of recession, successive generations add something to the diversity and range of meanings which language and other symbols can carry.

To that extent a theology which regards as already present in the first human being at his first beginnings what he is only to become in the course of his history, is not false, but correct, and corresponds to the characteristic nature of man, providing it distinguishes the pre-existence of the history in the potential beginning, from the presence of this ground of his nature in the history actually accomplished.

Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope, those two essential characteristics of human existence which Greek antiquity ignored altogether, discounting the keeping of faith as a very uncommon and not too important virtue and counting hope among the evils of illusion in Pandora's box.

In physics, for example, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or principle of indeterminacy has been interpreted in three ways: 1) that the «laws of nature» are deterministic, and that any uncertainty is due to human ignorance, which in due time will be resolved by science (Einstein), 2) uncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an objective characteristic of reality Werner Heisenberg).

The three characteristics which make the human individual a truly unique object in the eyes of Science, once we have made up our minds to regard Man not merely as a chance arrival but as an integral element of the physical world, are as follows:

Now, the minor chord in this train of thought is that the very characteristics which make human beings potential paradigms of embodied divine aim in the world also give them greater scope for the persistent thwarting of divine aim.

In order to convince the confused and alienated masses, we must be able to demonstrate that Catholic social thought treads the middle path between theocracy — the ambition of strict Islamist ideology — where the spiritual authorities simply subsume the powers of the State, and the atheist secularist agenda, which eventually leads to the State assuming God - like powers, yet without the compassion and respect for human freedom that is characteristic of the true God of Love.

What I set out to show, and hope to have shown, is that, viewed from a certain angle, the internal stir of the Cosmos no longer appears disorderly: it takes a given direction following a major axis of movement at the completion of which the human phenomenon becomes detached as the most advanced form of the largest and most characteristic of cosmic processes, that of in - folding.

The fourth truth, which is basic to the other three, is that incarnation is a historical fact, that the Word became a definite person, a real identifiable human being, whom believers recognized as possessing divine characteristics.

Thus its not an effort to conserve, which seems a more forced human characteristic, like when Hitler's folks tried to use Darwins Natural Selection ideas to justify their immoral means to purify «the race».

Moreover, Wojtyła explains that freedom, and with it morality, is central to the human person: that «which is most characteristic of a person, that in which a person (at least in the natural order) is most fully and properly realised, is morality.»

It is a characteristic of the religions which elevate mystic realization of the formless and nameless Spirit as the ultimate human destiny; they consider historical religions with their nama and rupa as belonging to the world of maya to be transcended.

But the intentional gathering of humans into concentrated communities produces distinctive characteristics which have severe implications for what is assumed to be a desirable natural environment.

The writings of Thomas Aquinas and the authors who inspired and succeeded him are ambiguous on the question: Are human beings to be defined by the characteristics which they share with other creatures or by the features which set them apart?

The legend of the tower of Babel is effectively used to show that whereas language may be man's most distinctive characteristic, his own self - centered designs to make a god of himself result in a complete breakdown in that verbal communication upon which all human culture and healthy society depend.

There is a close parallel in the interaction of metaphorical language and literal language; there is no sharp line between the two, but only a distinction which is relative, shifting, and contextdependent.31 «Man is a wolf» invites reflection not only on wolf - life characteristics of man, but also on man - like characteristics of the wolf, which is seen thereafter as more human.

The care and attention the mother wolf demonstrates during nursing and weaning are important characteristics from which human mothers can gain insight about providing for their young.

This represents a uniquely human characteristic that could only develop biologically alongside mother's continuous contact and proximity — as mother's body proves still to be the only environment to which the infant is truly adapted, for which even modern western technology has yet to produce a substitute.

Neuroscientific insights point to three key characteristics of human nature: emotionality (we are far more emotional than we think we are, and emotionality play a central role in decision - making), amorality (we are born amoral and our moral compass is developed in the course of our existence), and egoism (we are driven to survival, which is a basic form of egoism, i.e. preservation of the self).

This differs from either positive or pessimistic accounts in that rather than subscribing humans to one predominant characteristic (good or bad), it stresses the pivotal role of emotional and contextual factors which shape human behaviour and morality.

Moreover, their views did not diverge drastically from the Hobbesian perspective: the cause of all human conflicts could be found in the essential characteristics of human nature, which is fundamentally flawed, self - interested and prone to conflict.

«According to our analysis of the skull, which bears a complex mix of archaic and modern characteristics, this was probably the only place on earth where Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans lived side by side for a long period of time.»

The researchers used mouse models that mimic the disease characteristics of pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary fibrosis in humans to study the effect of triciribine, which inhibits production of a protein called Akt1.

Alongside its soon - to - be — unveiled physical map, CEPH - Genethon is also leading the world with its efforts to build human «genetic maps» — maps which show the relative positions of thousands of genes, culled from careful genealogical work on the way characteristics are passed on in human families.

The nano - hydrogels have shown very good characteristics of biocompatibility with the human organism, due to their physical properties, which make them resemble living tissues, especially by its high water content, its soft and elastic consistency, and its low interfacial tension which prevents them from absorbing proteins from body fluids.

«In this study, we were able to observe the existence of microscopic disease and low numbers of bacteria, which would be difficult to «see» in humans but could possibly be the cause of the variable and nonspecific symptoms that are characteristic of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome.

Marvin Minsky, director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US is identified with an opposing school, which favours creating complex computer software that mimics the characteristics of human intelligence.

Also, the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), the College of Mexico and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) have given their validation that the water treated with our technology meets the SSA NOM 127 standard, which indicates the parameters and quality characteristics for vital liquid to be used for human consumption,» says the Corporate Jhostoblak.