Another kind of failure can occur when the full dignity of
human personhood with its spiritualvocation is not accorded respect or attention.
Not exact matches
While Darling isn't quite on board
with electronic
personhood (at least not yet), she is interested in how
humans interact
with their technology and believes our choices are ultimately a reflection of us.
The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our
human capacity to learn
personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion
with other persons, and most of all
with the unseen God.
Is the
human intellectual concept of
personhood applied to an anencephelic fetus, and which ones
with all the various genetic variations of the condition where the fetus has no brain, or part of a brain?
Pace Professor Polanyi,
human personhood for Fr Holloway is, in accordance
with the Law of Control and Direction, the creation of God not humanity.
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.
Paideia proved compatible both
with the more social understanding of
human personhood that marked medieval life and
with the more individualistic assumptions about
personhood that marked much Renaissance culture.
It is in the integrity of a full humanity, and in every range of it, that God's action is to be found — God energizes in this man, in his total and genuine
personhood, not in some special part of that
personhood or by replacing
with deity some particular area of
human nature.
The ground of this
human personhood is the possibility of communion
with the person of the Creator by way of covenant and sacrament, a possibility enacted and cultivated through prayer.
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood describes complementarianism as the view that «God has created men and women equal in their essential dignity and
human personhood, but different and complementary in function
with male headship in the home and in the Church.»
Christian anthropology's emphasis on
human personhood fulfilling itself in interaction
with persons, leads it to give priority to preserve and develop small - scale social institutions which enable face to face relations to promote personal values and humanize people.
Many people identify, all of us some of the time,
personhood with human reason.
RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of
Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-
Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings
with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,»
Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.
Today however many knowledgeable people are saying that many of the high - tech developments have produced technological systems in which the mechanical - materialist view of reality,
human greed and ecological destruction are built in; and that therefore a new paradigm of development
with technologies integrated
with a more holistic understanding of
human personhood and peoplehood and recognizing the organic natural and spiritual dimensions of
human community are called for.
Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow
human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed
humans to their fundamental
human rights of
personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society
with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».
Of course she could not have realized at that time fifty years ago that some specialized medical technologies could be so fully integrated
with the materialistic - mechanical reductionist view of
human being and
with the profit - consumerist motives that it would be impossible to convert them to the holistic view of
human personhood or to be made an appropriate tool for promoting health of poor communities.
The ultimate spiritual question is, is
human being
with his / her awakening to self - identity and
personhood an accident in the evolutionary process and earth's history or is it really the result of the working of some purposive cosmic force, God or whatever?
From the serious to the superficial, these details are the landmarks that make up a
human being, and becoming familiarly acquainted
with these intricacies of your partner's
personhood, knowing intimately their personal traits and trivia, is the process of drawing in the latitude and longitude on your own Love Map.
The emotional intimacy of the images affords the subject a dignity that divorces her from her material function: the presence of an inner life creates a sense of
personhood which contrasts
with the innate objectification of Love Dolls as well as
human sex workers.
While
human beings acquire legal
personhood when they are born, juridical persons do so when they are incorporated in accordance
with law.
When AI becomes truly autonomous and begins interacting autonomously
with humans, it will require legal
personhood and
human oversight into order to integrate effectively
with society at large.