Sentences with phrase «human progress as»

Considered in this context, innovations in communication technologies and techniques appear to be just as vital for fostering sustainable human progress as a better battery or water filter or crop variety.

Today, as a devout Jew, he is well aware of the need for something beyond an optimistic belief in human progress as a basis for shaping a nation.

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That was true since automobiles transformed our lifestyles while simultaneously killing thousands a day, and it's true in our current reality of mind - bending technological progress with entrepreneurs aiming rockets at Mars and envisioning artificial intelligence that makes humans look about as smart a house cat in comparison.

This technique has been used, as Arnold reports, to trace the progress of cancers, advance our understanding of obesity and diabetes, and prove that brain cells continue to form through a human being's lifetime.

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

Humans like to have a way to measure themselves and track their own progress toward goals rather than being completely subject to someone's guess later as to how they've done.»

By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.

«So long as human exchange and specialisation are allowed to thrive somewhere, then culture evolves whether leaders help it or hinder it, and the result is that prosperity spreads, technology progresses, poverty declines, disease retreats, fecundity falls, happiness increases, violence atrophies, freedom grows, knowledge flourishes, the environment improves and wilderness expands.»

Rather, Defund Planned Parenthood protesters abhor abortion as a profound violation of human rights, and they believe that the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress prove that Planned Parenthood harbors a crass and denigrating attitude toward the unborn — hard to dispute.

Luke tells us that as a boy he «grew in his wisdom» (Lk 2:52), but the Church has taught that this means «his human nature was instructed by his own divinity» (Jerome) or that while remaining divine «he made his own the progress of humans in wisdom and grace» (John of Damascus).

That summer I realized that the very ways in which «progress» was being made — e.g., dominant development policies as well as economic programs in the industrialized world — were all part of the total network of processes that were destroying the basis of human life on the planet.

So far as we are able to follow its historical progress, the grouping and organization of the human mass has in the past been broadly governed far more by the principle of expansion than by that of compression.

We should never regard it as some final, definitive expression of the human mind beyond which thought can not progress.

From belief in idealism or confidence in material progress to the questioning of pervasive ideologies of conflict, from militarism to pacifism, from empire to anticolonialism, or from multiculturalism to the supposed clash of civilizations, the Crusades have appeared as witnesses for all parties in some cosmic lawsuit with human nature in the dock.

For example, there is the left - leaning «progressive» tradition that locates human dignity and progress as its central affirmations.

Is it a concern for the moral progress of the human race, as with the Abolitionists?

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.»

Human progress will not be in ignoring them, but rather in using them as instruments to serve and improve human lHuman progress will not be in ignoring them, but rather in using them as instruments to serve and improve human lhuman lives.

As we have shown, the sub-division of what one may call «the human spiritual categories» begins logically with faith in the state of Being, and proceeds to faith m the further progress of the material world around us — that is to say, in the most fundamental terms, faith in the spiritual value of matter.

The spiritual vision of modernity as we know it in ideology and practice has emphasized three aspects of realty, namely progress through differentiation and autonomy of individuality; the concept of the world as history moving towards the Future through the creativity of human rationality; and the ethos of secularism as the basis of social ordering.

Such services would be seen as raising living standards today (albeit in ways whose benefits are not easily computed), and might even improve prospects for material progress by augmenting society's stock of «human capital.»

The Center for Medical Progress follows all applicable laws in the course of its investigative journalism work and as more details about Planned Parenthood's contracts for aborted baby parts come to light, it's clear that Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress are the ones who are guilty of trafficking in human body parts.

When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

The Confession of Christ as the meaning of the upthrust of human history and the crown of its scientific and cultural progress is contradicted by the modern division of history into Ancient, Medieval, and Modern periods.

i truly believe that if humans can give up the magic stories they were taught to cling to, we may just be able to progress forward as a species.

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

Because a world tone - deaf to the supernatural — which Newman saw coming — would be a world in which Catholics were seen as «the enemies... of civil liberties and of human progress.»

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

But few were so hopeful as the French philosophe Condorcet in his 1795 history of human progress.

We have made such amazing progress as humans since we have thrown Biblical Beliefs out of our schools.

We must see the problem of human progress from a Christian interpretation, recognizing that it is not so simple a problem as romantic idealism made it, nor yet so simple as the present somewhat contemptuous rejections of it suggest.

Its adherents are said to believe in the irrelevance of deity, supremacy of human reason, inevitability of progress, science as the guide to human progress, autonomy and centrality of the individual, and evolution as an absolute.

Sir Julian Huxley, former UNESCO director, regards birth control as the only real hope in the problem and terms it «a prerequisite for anything that you can call progress and advance in human evolution.»

If we concede this the whole of human history appears as a progress between two critical points: from the lowest point of elementary consciousness to the ultimate, noospherical point of Reflection.

The Rationalist (the initial capital is Oakeshott's, who as Himmelfarb observed suggestively spelled «conservative» with a lowercase c) is both skeptical and optimistic: skeptical that there is anything he can not master and optimistic about the possibilities for human progress.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

But for the sake both of truth and continued human progress, the integrity and independence of science ought to be preserved against those who would compel it to state, as scientific fact, that something exists outside of its sole field of study, which is nature.

The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.

Specifically, they are prone to see religious tribalism as a threat to the orderly progress of civil society, and to see religion itself as a force that should govern a small — and it is hoped private — area of human activity.

All Christians know that they are liable to hear Christ Himself say to them one day, «I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat» Every one looks on progress as being, in the first place, a transition to a state of human society in which people will not suffer from hunger.

But as long as the world of man remains a place where nature and God, the real and the ideal, meet, human progress will depend upon the judicious use of the forces of nature in the service of the ideal.

So in this view, the revelation from God can be drawn like a slope that moves higher as human history progresses, so that we are smarter and wiser and know more truth than did the people of 500 years ago, and especially the people of 5000 years ago.

This is the idea that as human history progressed, God revealed more and more of Himself to humanity, so that the later portions of Scripture more accurately reveal the true nature of God than the earlier portions (see chapters 2, 11).

Yes, I know... lots a verbage about Dad being a real meany back in the day... (He's getting counseling for that, and is progressing well)... but, hey, I'm perfect... I can't be disappointed with human actions, if I am, then I sure as hell ain't what I...

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For on the one hand, if the synthesis of the Spirit is to be brought about in its entirety (and this is the only possible definition of progress) it can only be done, in the last resort, through the meeting, center to center, of human units, such as can only be realized in a universal, mutual love.

Although globalization of the economy has been characterized as a locomotive for productivity, opportunity, technological progress, and uniting the world, it ultimately causes increased impoverishment, social disparities and violations of human rights.

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

This mode of consciousness is «present as a kind of feeling for life, in man's pre-scientific consciousness and has as such impressed itself on modern man's everyday experience of life».1 As a result «man's consciousness of his own identity has become weaker and more damaged in the course of human progresas a kind of feeling for life, in man's pre-scientific consciousness and has as such impressed itself on modern man's everyday experience of life».1 As a result «man's consciousness of his own identity has become weaker and more damaged in the course of human progresas such impressed itself on modern man's everyday experience of life».1 As a result «man's consciousness of his own identity has become weaker and more damaged in the course of human progresAs a result «man's consciousness of his own identity has become weaker and more damaged in the course of human progress.