Sentences with phrase «human circumstances»

The problem here goes very deep into human circumstances and preferences.

Perhaps we should be looking not for detailed answers to our many questions but the authoritative statement of the principles which govern life beneath the ebb and flow of human circumstance.

It is not found in any rule that begins with the words «You shall not,» for life as I know it as a pastor, with real human beings facing real human circumstances in specific situations, is far too complex for that; yet the «you shall nots» still define the normative ethical pattern reflecting the wisdom of the ages.

Copenhagen Consensus Aid can provide targeted investment to improve human circumstances only if it is not wasted chasing too many low value objectives.

But like Buttiglione, the Anglican bishops felt that a general rule couldn't cover the vast variety of human circumstances: There are «occasions when a rigid insistence on the principle is impossible,» the bishops wrote.

Predetermined principles would lead to casuistry, and besides, «the variety of situations and human circumstances is too vast» to be covered by them.

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

And in this expression there is apparent that leveling insight that recognizes no distinction proportionate to that actual difference of life or of human circumstances: to be an active person or to be a sufferer, because the sufferer too, can be committed to the Good.

Buttiglione argues that because «the variety of situations and human circumstances is too vast,» you just can't generalize about communion for the remarried.

Pratt's recent work considers public space and architecture and their relationship to human circumstances.

Quantum theory addresses this perplexing dilemma, calling it a condition peculiar to human circumstance.