Sentences with phrase «human persons as»

On the other hand, he would worry over the competing desires corporations and governments face that might lead to a kind of rational planning that does not see human persons as a whole.

The «persons» of the trinity, in Christian thought, became analagous to the way people thought of human persons as independent entities, that is to say as substances.

Poets like Wordsworth see the human person as capable of communing with the whole of reality, or at least with aspects in a deeper, more profound way.

The question this raises is not of discrimination but of what constitutes the human person as a man or as a woman, and which union should receive a legal form.

The humane and Christian view, however, sees the human person as including a spirit which needs a body as a complement and mediator to fulfil his destiny as a traveller to God, the Ultimate Good, through the goodness of the material cosmos.

But things will start to change when we insist upon seeing the human person as the focal point of historical inquiry, the cynosure of historical meaning, the fleetingly visible figure to be sought in history's lavish carpet.

They fail to see the human person as a united being, and make no concession for the real and restless battle within him.

The family is a divine institution that stands at the foundation of life of the human person as the prototype of every social order.»

What happens in the human person as the culmination of nature's development must be posited of the whole of nature.

He associates this with the «spirit» dimension of the «Renaissance - Platonic» view of the human person as body - soul - spirit, as retrieved by de Lubac.

Third, an economy of caritas will respect the human person as the originating source of human action, the imago Dei, homo creator, the chief cause of the wealth of nations.

Gaia worship, as Hanby (and, I suspect, Andrew Kloster) and I would all agree, carries with it an anthropology that treats the human person as a kind of anthropollutant, which leads in short order to a eugenic «morality.»

This is the phenomenology, particularly as practiced by Max Scheler, of which Wojtyla became a student, and which would in time lead him into novel, but orthodox, expositions of sexual ethics (Love and Responsibility), and into even more novel, though no less orthodox, expositions of the human person as the self - possessed locus of action and thought (The Acting Person).

b) the natural rights theories that based rights on reason and natural law, linked to the concept of the supreme dignity of the human person as a creature of God, who alone had sovereign right over all,

«Holloway suggests that the concept of environment is a helpful way in which to preserve the relevance of the subject without losing its realistic objectivity because a subject is inherently related to its environment whilst at the same time distinct from it... We would propose it as a sort of medium between... (the fairly uncritical) adoption of the post-modern subject and... «scholastic rationalism»... If then we further understand the human person as being within a personal environment, that of the living God... We can affrm that human nature is intrinsically ordered to God» (page 4).

Vatican Council II indicated this great truth when it declared: «God did not create the human person as a solitary,» and after citing Genesis 1: 27, «male and female he created them,» explains that the companionship of the two sexes «produces the primary form of interpersonal communion.

Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.

• A raw individualism that conceives «freedom» as radical personal autonomy because it thinks of the human person as a twitching bundle of desires, the satisfaction of which is the full meaning of «human rights» and the primary task of government.

Proposition 15: New Evangelisation and Human Rights Every opportunity must be taken in various local situations and associations to articulate, uphold and guard, both in theory and in practice, those rights flowing from an adequate understanding of the human person as set forth in the natural law.

By that I mean that the common habit of treating robots as people — however much it seems like a joke or a shorthand or a metaphor — could erode our already diminished sense of the human person as uniquely special.

Freedom was grounded in the objective dignity of the human person as entailing a freedom from coercion.

If we understand the human person as the «temple of the Holy Spirit» — the living house of God — then these [other] issues fall logically into place as the crossbeams and walls of that house.

Finally, and I could go on, to suggest that the bishops are stressing «egalitarianism» is to treat their emphasis on our shared humanity and the dignity of the human person as if it were some veiled promotion of social leveling.

At this point, Tocqueville needed to be complemented by a greater emphasis on the human person as revealed in the crucible of totalitarianism.

In his extended review of Stratford Caldecott's The Radiance of Being (May / June issue), Fr Hugh Mackenzie contrasts that book's espousal of «the «Renaissance - Platonic» view of the human person as body - soul - spirit» with the Faith movement's prioritising of mind as the metaphysical first principle.

At the heart of the matter is western society's lack of a true anthropology, a view of the human person as intrinsically good, made for love - the love of God and of each other.

Rather, it resides in the relationship with God which such existence may and does enjoy, whether this is realized or actualized in a vivid manner or is present only as a kind of Leitmotif which runs through the whole history of the human race and the personal history of each and every human person as a member of the society of men and women.

I found deep wisdom (and errors) in all of the Great Religious Traditions; but nowhere did I find as great an affirmation of the human person as the Judeo - Christian Tradition and especially in Christian mystery of the Incarnation.

The battleground is the consciousness, mind, heart and spirit of the human person as well as the community.

If then we further understand the human person as being within a personal environment, that of the living God, we can understand the autonomy of human nature without depicting grace and nature as in a «dualistic opposition» of the sort feared by OTWTL (p. 40).

God as Environer Holloway's book, Catholicism: A New Synthesis, does not present the self - communication of God as something that actually constitutes the human person as such.

Instead they focused upon the subjective perceptions and internal anxieties of the human person as their point of departure, which for Jaki was all very well as a second step in theological dialogue but not the first.

In his written address, Inibehe Effiong, Counsel to Udo, is seeking to determine whether the assault and torture meted by the accused persons on his client, amount to «a breach on the applicant's fundamental human rights to dignity of his human person as guaranteed in section 34 (1)(a) of Nigeria's 1999 constitution (as mended), as well as the African Charter on Human and People's Rights».

Inspired by the life and thought of St. Josemaría Escrivá, Scepter Publishers seeks to help men and women put Christ at the center of their lives and at the summit of all human activities, and to help them evangelize the world from within, bringing about a new civilization in keeping with the dignity of the human person as a child of God in Jesus Christ.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

«Part of it is the nature of working with creative people that are looking for an outlet to express it not just in their work, but as a way of showing affection for their co-workers and having fun,» explains Bluebeam's Chief Human Capital Officer, Tracy Heverly, about the tradition.

Such high - profile figures as Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox have put human faces on the struggles of transgender people.

We've figured out some drugs that usually work, but as we learn more about the human body and our genetic code — the things we have in common but also the things that make us unique — we may come up with a new sort of medicine, tailored for each person.

And it gave me a new mission as a human being about the relationships that I would develop with other people.»

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.

As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

Do people shop on price, or might they pay extra as a statement for human rights?

A Human - Voiced Resumebrands you as a person with a path and a story, not a disembodied bundle of skills.

Of the people identified as victims of modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for labor exploitation with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of human trafficking from Poland.

As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

«Treat people as human beings, give them that flexibility, and I don't think they'll abuse it.

Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011 study found that humans are best at learning new names in our early 20s.

In an open letter to his baby girl — which doubled as a 2,238 - word press release, with bolded phrases and separated sections for maximum ease when skimming — Zuckerberg writes that he wants to «join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation.»

HVMN, a San Francisco start - up backed by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Andreessen Horowitz, advertises its $ 40 - a-bottle supplements as «biohacking» compounds that will help people achieve «optimal human performance.»

It makes me feel great as a human to be helping and advancing products and a culture that creates a positive impact on people's lives.