Sentences with phrase «human possibility in»

Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck's particular brand of naivete and chutzpah — by his ability to hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith.

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That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Most importantly, they reject without much examination the possibility that fully autonomous robots might, in some environments and for some situations, distinguish military targets far better and more accurately than humans can.

Those are the possibilities facing Canada's economy in the next decade, according to a recent report from the Human Resources Professionals Association and Deloitte Canada.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

«With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things in a way that leverages the power of our trusted brand, fits with our company purpose of expanding the human possibilities of the connected world, and puts us at the heart of a very large addressable market where we can make a meaningful difference in peoples» lives.»

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

The great «health transition,» as some call it, seemed to require adjustment in the face of changed possibilities for human flourishing.

One virus - particle doesn't change color, but as it procreates mutations in that process can make the resulting child - virus differ from the parent - virus, so that the child - virus is capable of infecting a human as well as the original host thereby opening the possibility for a new human disease.

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

I'm not dogmatic about Judas» final fate, that one was up to God — but consider the possibility that God doesn't judge things in the same manner that we humans do.

In my opinion, this cartoon reflects the ever present possibility that human beings are dynamic creatures who struggle to reconcile facts and feelings and who can — and often do — change their minds.

Contraception is the promise of child - free sex, and when something goes wrong and a child is conceived ¯ due either to the technical failure rate of contraception or to the possibility of human error in anything we humans undertake ¯ abortion takes that child - free promissory note to the bank.

Far from condoning every destruction of nature that is executed in the name of human purposes, the maximal happiness principle prescribes such sacrifice only when the human possibilities are thereby greater than they would otherwise be.

Thus, human possibilities are increased in the measure that human individuality is a part of the inherited world.

@believer, I don't know if you'd call me an atheist, but I don't believe in a god or gods and, while open to the possibility that some may exist, am highly unlikely ever to believe in the Christian god, mostly because 1) most versions require an anti-scientific concept of «free will» and 2) I think there's abundant evidence of human creation of the Christian god concept.

Moreover, the suffering that can be inflicted through disturbance within the human body indicates the extent to which general biological health and «material» security constitute happiness, although the fact that these ends dominate the lives of most people in the contemporary world indicates how far short of its possibilities the human race remains.

In fact there is a strong possibility that IF the human notices the worm, the worm will become fish food or a stain on the sidewalk.

To the degree there are vital Christians in any culture that culture is strong in inner fabric and high in possibilities for human good.

According to catholic teaching, the existence of hell, of a state of eternal damnation, is an article of faith (as indeed, given free will and evil, it is a logical necessity); but that some human beings are or will be in fact damned is not an article of faith (though again logically it must be regarded as a possibility): hence Pere Teilhard's prayer further on in this passage.

It is an expression of the wonder of being human when people take miserable circumstances and discover unexpected possibilities for some good, even some growth in them!

In looking for inductive possibilities for a move from anthropology to theology, i.e., in attempting to find an anchorage for theology in fundamental human experience, Berger turns to our common, «universal» experiences - to what he labels «prototypical human gestures.&raquIn looking for inductive possibilities for a move from anthropology to theology, i.e., in attempting to find an anchorage for theology in fundamental human experience, Berger turns to our common, «universal» experiences - to what he labels «prototypical human gestures.&raquin attempting to find an anchorage for theology in fundamental human experience, Berger turns to our common, «universal» experiences - to what he labels «prototypical human gestures.&raquin fundamental human experience, Berger turns to our common, «universal» experiences - to what he labels «prototypical human gestures.»

For Keen, the dis - eased person as Homo Faber is the individual who has destroyed both human wholeness and the possibility for new life by denying the «feminine» in favor of the «masculine.»

As Joseph Campbell might have said each religion is true in its own way as a metaphorical expression of the possibility of human experience in the world.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

This is the characteristic mood of our times, in which not even the colossal destructiveness of two world wars and the possibility of the third have greatly disturbed our trust in human achievement.

The obligations and possibilities of human sexuality are present and have to be handled in the whole of life.

Whereas Marx defined transcendence as the human beings» possibility to move towards the future with freedom and choice, so that they could shape their own destiny, Bonhoeffer gave a this - worldly interpretation of transcendence in which the experience of transcendence is Jesus «being there for others».

One can very well agree that Christian existence has always been an ontological possibility for man, in the sense that it does not entail «changing human nature into a supernature, «54 and yet say that it is an antic possibility only for those in a certain historical situation.

And indeed the Kingdom of God and death are alike in this — that both the Kingdom and death imply the end of earthly human existence as we know it, with its possibilities and interests.

One possibility is that we are simply using this current language to speak of the importance of the church's developing its doctrine of nature more fully and in ways appropriate to our new understanding of the relation between human beings and the natural world.

And, he explicitly argues that this «traditional conservatism,» which is by the way, not an ideology, has the potential to address the age - old problems related to political science, while implicitly suggesting the possibility of recapturing man's tensional existence in the Platonic Metaxy, thereby restoring the order necessary to illuminate the divine - human encounter.

What Whitehead thus provides for us in the search for the meaning of love is a perspective on the world which opens new possibilities for conceiving the divine love and human loves.

Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.

Undoubtedly a certain insight was promoted in regard to such questions as how the papal primacy and the episcopacy founded by Christ can exist and work together in the Church, how the necessity of the Church for salvation is compatible with the possibility of salvation of a human being who does not belong to it, how in the realm of grace each of the regenerate can depend on every other and so above all on Mary, while there is nevertheless only one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ.

But he fails to show how this horizontal dimension does not exclude but rather depends on Paul's sense of the vertical dimension — how God's intervention in Christ has created the possibility for a new way of being human.

It acknowledges a human contribution in the formulation and transmission of religious beliefs, while accepting the possibility of divine revelation.4 Because God's communication is being received by humans, there will always be an element in the whole process of understanding God's revelation that is open to change and development.

Because of its confidence in the redemptive possibilities of human activity, the church will tend to think that regulation is possible; because of its awareness of the demonic potential of human activity, it will insist that regulation is necessary.

The Coen's common tack of forcing the audience to confront the possibility of nihilism being true, of human life being essentially meaningless, which for them has usually played out within a crime drama, here occurs in a mundane set of events.

God will not only absorb the effects of the human misuse of power, but will «look bad» in the eyes of those who think that God's possibilities should not be so limited (see 1 Cor 1:26 - 31)(See Fretheim, The Suffering of God, 76).

The higher possibilities of human achievement are a gift from past human achievements, favorably ordered, where the human past includes both the previous activities of the individual in question and the communities of individuals to whom she or he relates.

By dismissing Marx's ultimate faith in the goodness of Historical progress — and by holding open the possibility of a return to a life both more human and more natural, left conservatives might seem to have freed themselves of the illusions of History.

In representing the Torah, then, Jesus in no way creates a new possibility for human obedience; he points, rather, to God's primordial will — ever perceptible in human experience — for which humanity has always been responsiblIn representing the Torah, then, Jesus in no way creates a new possibility for human obedience; he points, rather, to God's primordial will — ever perceptible in human experience — for which humanity has always been responsiblin no way creates a new possibility for human obedience; he points, rather, to God's primordial will — ever perceptible in human experience — for which humanity has always been responsiblin human experience — for which humanity has always been responsible.

The FBI, who investigate most hate crimes, would not rule out any possibility, even the relatively mild and all - too - human possible scenarios I touched upon in my posts, without good reason to do so.

In short, process thought contends that God does not rule over creatures in tyrannical fashion but rather presents possibilities to humans for actualizing the divine wilIn short, process thought contends that God does not rule over creatures in tyrannical fashion but rather presents possibilities to humans for actualizing the divine wilin tyrannical fashion but rather presents possibilities to humans for actualizing the divine will.

In making a decision regarding research into human cloning, we must pay close attention to the benefits it would provide for those who suffer the worst genetic disorders; we must look closely at the possibility of some groups or individuals being exploited or neglected through human cloning; and we must keep before us the welfare of the children who would enter the world through cloning.

In 2008, the Vatican's official newspaper discussed the possibility that the universe could contain intelligent life beyond Earth, and that aliens would be «our brothers» and «children of God» as much as human beings are.

That is to say, salvation depends finally upon right human action in response to God's gracious Torah, and Jesus» function is simply to re-present that Law as it exists primordially in the mind of God — not to create a new possibility for human existence.

But Jesus» compassion arises in response to our finitude — that is, the strange admixture of possibility and impossibility that constitutes the being of the human.