Sentences with phrase «human instruments of»

And so in Christianity we again come upon that mysterious law of additivity and social heredity which in every field governs the processes of Life; while at the same time the fundamental role of education is again manifest, as the human instrument of divine instruction.

Not exact matches

If we think of the corporation (for - profit or otherwise) as an instrument or technology by means of which people seek to achieve their goals, then it becomes clear that the rights (or «rights») of different kinds of corporate persons depend not on what kind of entity they are, but on the the demonstrable goals of the human beings involved.

Two closed trial sessions took place on August 22 and September 24 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Judge Abolqasem Salavati, who is known to human rights organizations for being an instrument of Iran's security apparatus.

Where the power of those instruments needs to be limited, as it surely sometimes does, it can not be done by pulling the rug out from under individual, human liberties.

I am not arguing that these alternative instruments will be successful in countering asset price bubbles and credit imbalances, because I think bubbles are a permanent feature of the landscape resulting from entrenched human behaviour.

«All methods and techniques — and of course all human beings who propound them — are merely instruments to help the student attain a methodless technique - free teacherless state.

By this he meant that the human brain, along with its senses, and with is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds of the REAL world (the territory).

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

If all mankind catalyze world opinion in support of human dignity and the worth of personhood, together with all the wealth of rights and values already part of U.N. instruments and international jurisprudence, there is hope.

That risk was to put the means and instruments of beatitude and salvation into human hands — which is to say, into the hands of sinners who would inevitably make a mess of things from time to time.

In the case of aphasic speech, for example, the body remains that «instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul» (AI 349), but the final artist merely lives off his previous acquisitions.

To all appearance the ultimate perfection of the human element was achieved many thousands of years ago, which is to say that the individual instrument of thought and action may be considered to have been finalised.

But all we want is to help our people, to be instruments of mediating the Word and the finger of God to these human, likable, troubled, and sinful people.

They base their philosophy on the concept of man as an intelligent adaptive organism and regard reason as an instrument for solving problems of adjustment to the natural and human environment.

Hegel hinted at this when he recognized the slave, not the master, as the instrument of History, because the slave works upon nature and molds it to human consciousness.

If human awareness is of the magnitude of substantial portions of the brain, the question arises as to whether we could ever see it externally or otherwise detect it through scientific instruments.

This egalitarian position grows out of the view that knowledge is simply an instrument to serve human interests and that there are no criteria of value beyond those of human satisfaction.

Virginity is the ideal of the holy person not because he or she is filled with a deep hatred of the human body, but because Christ was ihidaya meaning that Christ had singleness of purpose to be the instrument of God's will and thought.

Human potentiality is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal instrument open to employment by God but with full human freedom retained — adequate for the divine purHuman potentiality is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal instrument open to employment by God but with full human freedom retained — adequate for the divine purhuman freedom retained — adequate for the divine purpose.

There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.

When the self is committed to the Second Good, its stock of memory, intelligence, relationships, health, and wealth becomes the instrument for the concrete achievement of security, justice, liberty, or fraternity within the domain of personal relations and in the larger world of human institutions.

It breaks through human life, human time, and into human history, and in doing so, it possesses and releases its own power, with or without the consent of the human instrument through whom the Word is proclaimed.

We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a human life was taken and made into the instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's human children.

Once they are unmasked, shown for what they really are, religious belief and the idea of God can be useful instruments of human self - understanding, revealing to us our essential nature and worth.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

Our will to transcend nature through projects of mastery mounts a rebellion against the natural constraints of the organic human body, harnessing the power of technological innovations to render it the instrument of our arbitrary will.

According to Kant, to say nothing of common moral sense, human beings are subjects and as such should never to be treated as mere instruments or objects.

Human sovereignty is due more to our language than to our techniques and instruments of war.

They are the instruments that human beings have fashioned for purposes of communication.

Indeed, our whole society instead of ordering economic matters for the sake of overall human and social well being has subordinated itself to the market as the instrument of producing wealth.

Aquinas respects this metaphysical principle byarguing that the semen is operating like an instrument or tool of a fully human cause, namely the father.

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

Closer investigation, however, shows that imagination can not be altogether rationalized and treated as a meter instrument of human thought and willing.

He made absolute by a decree that has lasted to our own day the divorce between study of the world outside of us and study of the human mind as an instrument.

The unique factor about the present situation is that the vast human potentiality for destructiveness (in blocked creativity) is now armed with fiendish instruments of mass annihilation.

If love of neighbor is not a sentimental attitude but actual response to human needs, science can obviously be a potent instrument of good will.

Can the church be an instrument of the Spirit, a witness to a vision of a world brotherhood in which increasing knowledge and know - how are put in the loving service of human need?

They are indispensable instruments of our being human.

This stance puts me in opposition to those humanists who regard religion as an illusion, who seek to negate the divine reality as the necessary precondition for affirming the humanist gospel of human freedom, and who interpret the history of religion as only an instrument of oppression and dehumanization.

Human work is the instrument God uses to get things done he wants done: the planet cared for, people educated, housed, the mind expanded through study, the heart lifted through the manufacture and playing of musical instruments... the poor fed, the sick healed... Our charitable giving helps the poor, but creating a decent job helps them more.

But in his eyes human speech does not exclude the possibility of extending its philosophical use beyond its initially limited range of employment and of becoming capable of describing actualities it was not originally cut out for «Every science must devise its own instruments.

Effective preaching is an invaluable instrument of pastoral care — «perspective - giving, appreciation - perceiving and insight - creating discipline of the human spirit.»

Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods mayforget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection... [So] In preserving intact the whole moral law of marriage, the Church is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly human civilisation» (HV 17 - 18).

That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary.

There are realms of human experience where the scientific method, as commonly understood, is simply not the right instrument to use.

The possible blight which might come to the human spirit if a minority of wholly ruthless men should achieve a monopoly on the instruments of power that make the world all one province, technically, is a reasonable cause for fear.

At the same time, however, God deigns to employ human agents and to use human instruments for the accomplishment of his purpose.

As James Barr pointed out, «Fundamentalism is the imposition upon the Bible of a particular tradition of human religion, and the use of the Bible as an instrument of power to secure the success and influence of that religion.»

It has supported the patriarchal structure of human society in ways that have dehumanized women, treating them as instruments for the satisfaction of men's desires and as responsible for men's sins.

Humans» communion with each other is also an instrument of the fuller communion with God.