Sentences with phrase «human decisions as»

Thus, if decision is something carried on by actual entities, human decision takes on a Pickwickian sense: we can at best only reconstruct human decision as a derivative of decision.

Not exact matches

Initially, you might not consider «likability» as a key trait for running a business — after all, a business owner needs to make objective, emotionless decisions for the benefit of the business before any human interest considerations.

«I think there are implications in a narrow area such as judicial decision - making, as well as in a more general area of «understanding and explaining human behavior,»» says Mocan.

He also said that maintaining a human element is very important, as chatbots should improve customer service, save customers time or streamline their buying decision, such as customizing a product order or helping with a specific request.

Intrade was a predictions market, something originally developed by academics to gain better insight into human decision - making, but operated as a business.

In fact, the Society for Human Resource Management found that 49 percent of employees describe making decisions about their health insurance as «very stressful.»

But as with past Supreme Court ATS decisions, the justices once again failed to shut the door entirely on human rights activists: the ruling said nothing about the many ATS claims pending against American corporations.

Look, no human being has anywhere near the capacity to make the great decisions, as great collective decision - making.

Defining itself as a «marketplace of data science - powered signals for trading cryptocurrencies,» Signals exploits machine intelligence for human profits, and helps you to make faster and smarter trading decisions.

This model allows more independence with regard to decisions on office location, staffing and managing day - to - day operations, but still draws on the firm's administrative support services such as human resources, compliance, payroll and technology.

Judicial decision making calls for wise employment of that singular form of human thought known as legal reasoning.

But getting to that city also included human decision - making, and my wife a job and me a job (and a second change of jobs) and a lot of other details as well.

Present human activity, in other words, reflects a decision about one's place as an individual in the wider world.

The fact is that even though they strive for higher goals for themselves and all of humanity, those who are religeous are still humans and thus very capable of making horrible decisions and taking horrible actions both as a group and individually.

It is not the result of the free will of creatures, as is normally the case with the begetting of a human person, but the result of God's own Will, His free decision to become one of us.

The result of that decision has been explained by St. Thomas as a collective sin of «the whole human race in Adam, as one body of one man» (De Malo 4,1), following on St Paul's teaching that in Adam all die (1 Cor.

There is no doubt that some decisions in human life can not wholly be made available to explicit reflection as regards their moral significance.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

Certainly, similar to secular society the Church, too, rests on certain presuppositions which are not produced by the free decision of her members and their free association as such, but are the very conditions of her existence, namely human nature, the saving will of God, redemption through Jesus Christ, the general call of all men to the Church and the resulting «duty» to belong to her.

The story could be heard and understood by anyone who had experienced the depth of love in a family with its dilemmas and decisions, and Jesus uses it as a lesson about God which is reflected in the human situation.

God's plans and designs must necessarily be flexible as he adjusts to human decisions.

Where faith invites the Holy Spirit to participate in human decisions, in answer to God's invitation to participate in God's work of creating human beings, Africans accepted to be unmade, Christianized, catholicized, presbyterianized and pentecostalized as a price to pay for the salvation of their souls.

On this conclusion, the comprehensive purpose as a principle for moral decisions may be formulated: maximize creativity in the human future as such.

A political decision, namely, against a state which as a totalitarian state can not recognize any task, proclamation and order other than its own, nor acknowledge any other God than itself, and which therefore in proportion to its development had of necessity to undertake the oppression of the Christian church and the suppression of all human right and freedom.

Salvation is a free gift from God to the human race, but each individual human has to make the decision to accept Jesus as their Savior.

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.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

We would need to place greater importance on our role as bringers of life or death in the human order by the decisions we make.

But the experienced quality, the «being of worth,» is not itself a matter of human decision, for the essence of value, as distinguished from desire, is precisely the power of evoking devotion and of transforming persons in conformity with its own pattern.

This is the crucial question; it is the question which makes us understand that our day - to - day human life must be lived responsibly and seriously, with due regard for the consequences of our decisions and for what happens as a result of them.

In this decision the primary orientation toward giving or getting comes to the fore, and with it a host of consequences and applications in a great variety of more specific human concerns, as indicated in the preceding paragraph.

Certainly nobody could deny that when they are presented in this fashion they have the capacity to force all of us to regard human existence, human decisions, and human actions as matters of very great importance.

It was the announcement by Mukherji and D' Sousa that the Christian Community had decided to forgo special communal representation in the legislature and other communal safeguards so that there would not be political exploitation of increase of numbers through conversion that there was a spontaneous decision in the Constituent Assembly to include propagation of religion as a fundamental human right of the citizen.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to the Oxford English Dictionary, focuses on the study of «computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence — such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision - making, and translation between languages».

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

It is about whether rights are the product of human decision or, as the Founders declared, an endowment from our Creator.

Bultmann's emphasis on existential decision has the eternal and righteous God demanding this decision; it has the critical need of human response, though in a personal rather than social action framework; it has the apocalyptic passages not to be taken literally but as reinforcing the urgency of decision.

Bottom line, every decision as it relates to human life as to be weighed ethically.

In the theology of Karl Barth, for example even though scientific discoveries are affirmed within the realm proper to science, the only way to know God is through God's free decision to reveal herself / himself in Jesus Christ; any other way of attempting to know God, such as through the exercise of human reason, of which science is an example, is pretentious idolatry on the part of humans trying to play God.

Each culture is a living, changing phenomenon, and it changes as a result of human thought and decision - making.

The human enterprise is a great adventure, as we move from the relatively settled world of our past, through decisions and actions in the present, toward the unexplored but alluring world of the future.

He cited potential problems as the use of data without people's knowledge and bias decision making, such as computers making decisions in human resources and job applications without fully understanding the criteria.

It may seem that to emphasize the pervasive operation of the Holy Spirit, as well as to stress the Spirit's focal action in the life of Jesus and its consequences, will in the end reduce men and women to mere automatons used by God with no respect for their freedom, their dignity, and their own responsible decisions, without any personal or social human contribution to the process.

And since the world has a radical freedom, being in fact the realm of choice, such as we know at the human level in conscious decision but which in differing mode is present at every level, this may be not only a «natural» recalcitrance but a quite definitely elected refusal to move.

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

So it is here on the historical Jesus, as he is presented to me by the texts and encounters me as a person through historical reconstruction, that the decision of faith is made, not on the risen Christ as I would have liked him to be, or as, for example, he is accessible archetypally to all human beings as a symbol of the self.

Without this affirmation, as he pointed out, all of our ordinary, commonsense explanations of human action, in terms of beliefs, desires, and decisions, are undermined.

Christian ethics is defined as the systematic study of the way of life set forth by Jesus Christ applied to the daily demands and decisions of human existence.

Human love defies explanation either as a rational decision based on the attributes of the beloved, or as an unmotivated act of choice.