Sentences with phrase «human dignity in»

Maguire's most recent paintings directly confront issues of migration, displacement and human dignity in the face of the current global unrest.

The 2018 Call bears Maxine Greene's imprint: to tackle threats to public education, to equitable opportunity, and to respect for diversity, justice, and human dignity in all educative endeavors.

But there is much more on the films plate than simply laughing - to - prevent - from - crying at the current state of America, the film delves into life philosophy, behavior etiquette in the modern world and simple human dignity in ways that only a good comedy can.

The group says that their recommendations are intended to «uphold overriding societal goals» by promoting global justice and human dignity in seeking to ensure that the medical benefits of stem cell research are made widely accessible.

Moreover, in partnership with New York City Councilmember Brad Lander, she convenes #GetOrganizedBK, through which thousands of New Yorkers work together to defend democracy and human dignity in this time when they believe that both are under siege.

The Enlightenment affirms human dignity in a second way.

And pro-life folks find pro-choice denials of prized human dignity in embryos to be equally absurd whenever they think that the unborn child develops (indeed, develops itself, unlike the Polaroid photo) from the moment of fertilization.

By this we mean human dignity in the acceptance of political responsibility.

It animated the vibrant pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II, from his anticommunist writings on human freedom in its relationship to truth, to assertions of universal human dignity in the face of the culture of death, as well as in his approaches to ecumenism and interreligious dialogue.

Christopher White is the International Director of Operations for the World Youth Alliance, an NGO headquartered in New York City that works to promote human dignity in policy and culture.

But there is nothing egalitarian about a moral vision that flows from understanding human dignity in terms of transcendence - seeking projects; and libertarians, under the brutalizing influence of Ayn Rand, seem to have become increasingly honest about the inegalitarian consequences of their agenda.

Then he goes beyond this deconstruction to found a postmodern ethic that affirms human dignity in the face of state terrorism.

He would thus identify her need to retain her human dignity in a time of helplessness.

Weigel does not hesitate to state that the present pope may someday be known as «John Paul the Great,» particularly for his unstinting defense of human dignity in the face of political and cultural barbarisms.

$ 14 paper In Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy, some of the most active voices in the American bioethics....

Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy edited by Chrles W. Colson and Nigel M. De S. Cameron Intervarsity.

Why you all don't understand that Chrisianity gave humans dignity in the belief of free will and our obligation as Christians to forgive then you avoid reality.

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In each case, a mix of social pressure and technological refinements helped tame a cruel new order, and reaffirmed human dignity over machines.

We must also work together to create a culture in our country that embraces the dignity of life that creates deep and meaningful human connections and that turns classmates and colleagues into friends and neighbors.

Her own story and refusal to shrink from the public eye challenges preconceptions about sex work: namely, the assumption that those in the sex industry forfeit their right to autonomy and human dignity.

People who try to separate their private convictions about human dignity and the common good from their involvement in public issues are not acting with integrity, or with loyalty to their own principles.

Its board of governors «continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy's values of respect for human dignity,» the group said in a statement.

Bottom line, people should not have to dress or behave in certain societally approved ways in order to be treated like human beings deserving of the same dignity as more privileged people.

So while I agree with her that political life may help renew faith in human dignity and so make human rights believable, the politics of human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out at least half of the human experience.

And Catholic thinkers — the writings of Jacques Maritain are a prominent case in point — have long promoted a «Christian Humanism,» a perspective that celebrates the created dignity of the human person in God's design for the world.

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquin noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquIn its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquin its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

And then to take pleasure in slinging it at others should be beneath your dignity as a human being.

Death obsession is corroding our society's belief in the intrinsic value and inherent dignity of human life.

Those words so famously spoken touched on the dignity that the pope perceives in every human being experiencing same - sex attraction.

Our libertarian friends would argue that our inability to establish a stable conservative - but - not - libertarian position in the national culture is a sign of the incoherence of our principles, a sign that our attempt to reconcile freedom, an entrepreneurial economy, and human dignity with the safety net and the regulatory state is just an attempt to have our cake and eat it, too.

Unfortunately, little attention is given to understanding how human dignity of the clinician is threatened and violated in the current health care environment... [which] has led to the systemic violation of the dignity of the clinician (and ultimately that of persons who are sick), created moral distress among clinicians, and the collapse of the healing relationship.

His appeal to the dignity of humanity, the toleration of differing ideas, and emotivism finds a needed alternative in James Rogers» response from a Christianity that observes how sin perpetuates «the indignity of the human person.»

But neither can politics, particularly liberal democratic politics, function for long without reference to sustaining roots, and especially to assumptions about the inviolable sources of human dignity that can rightly be called religious in character.

Pope Francis is simply pointing out what everyone knows: those in power with their greed for money and profits, trample on people, human families and human dignity.

Whatever the true etiology of homosexuality, homosexuals still possess the dignity that derives from participation in what Josef Pieper called «the luminous domain of free human action.»

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

In that short period, the bilateral relationship has flourished into a deep, mutual commitment to work together to advance our common goals and a strong partnership for the promotion of human dignity and religious freedom.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

«The economic powers shall continue to justify the current world system, in which speculation and the aim for financial returns... ignore... the effects on the environment and on human dignity... environmental, human and ethical degradation are intimately connected.

The horrific denouement of an ideology that required breaching the boundary of shame was the shamelessness of death camps where human beings were robbed of dignity, stripped of privacy, deprived, therefore, of an elemental freedom of the body in life and of the respect we accord the bodies of the dead after life is no more.

Or do we want to live according to the UDHR article 1 «All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

In the essay, he argues — quite compellingly, to my mind — that contemporary efforts to appeal to human dignity need foundations that those who make the appeal typically are unable to provide....

Running through Christianity is a consistent ethic of respect for human life and dignity, and both parties fail in this regard.

By the time Pope Benedict XVI addressed the U.N. General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the UDHR in 2008, opportunistic uses of human rights were in full swing, prompting the pope to announce, «Efforts need to be redoubled in the face of pressure to reinterpret the foundations of the Declaration and to compromise its inner unity so as to facilitate a move away from the protection of human dignity towards the satisfaction of simple interests, often particular interests.»

• Wesley Smith says yes, Ross Blackburn says no, to the question of whether one can use secular arguments to defend human dignity, arguing in the pages of the Human Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden Maffhuman dignity, arguing in the pages of the Human Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden MaffHuman Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden Maffucci.

evolveddna — yes I extend human dignity to all — and don't feel any human being is less precious than any other in the sight of God

As Zmirak writes, Röpke «centered his economics in the dignity of the human person, who lives not alone but as part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.»

The state should be run in accordance with what is best to maintain human dignity and a standard of living that we as a people can all agree on.

If secular legal processes are deeply concerned with human dignity and the presumption of innocence, how much more carefully should such processes be employed in the Church of Christ?

Let us not underestimate the role of the international human rights project in training a spotlight on the appalling violations of human life, liberty, and dignity that occur every day in many parts of the world.