The free market — and the values of freedom, equality, rights, responsibilities, and the rule of law that lie at its heart — remains the greatest agent of collective
human progress ever created.
Not exact matches
Humans will be honest and humble enough to say «we just do nt know if there
ever was, or is a «god» out there», and we will
progress to levels of love,
progress, and understanding never seen before in the history of mankind!
Now more than
ever there is a need for a time of peace and intellectual freedom in which devout thinkers can interpret the Qur» an in the light of the
progress of
human knowledge.
In very personal language, I believe that all things are
progressing from the same divine source; that that source is the ground of all being and its essence is love and interdependence; that all
human beings (all of life, really) are equal and beloved in its sight; that in response to that overarching, boundless love which ensures that no one is
ever truly alone, I have a responsibility to assist in the creation of just and loving community here on Earth.
It could not then easily be foreseen that within two short decades
human progress, in fact our very physical health or survival, would seem to depend more than
ever on a return to laws set by the
ever - living God.
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.»
However bitter our disillusionment with
human goodness, there are stronger scientific reasons than
ever before for believing that we do really
progress and that we can advance much further still, provided we are clear about the direction in which
progress lies and are resolved to take the right road.
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.
I wish to show in this paper that, however bitter our disillusionment with
human goodness in recent years, there are stronger scientific reasons than
ever before for believing that we do really
progress and that we can advance much further still, provided we are clear about the direction in which
progress lies and are resolved to take the right road.
Perhaps nothing in
human history
ever vanishes completely — a disturbing or consoling notion, depending on the degree of one's faith in
progress, but there it is: Astarte is alive and well, and if she lives anywhere, I suppose, it is in California.
Lasch accepts the reality of
human limits and of sin, and he sees in the unadorned and giddily optimistic story of
progress the
ever more destructive outcroppings of Pelagianism run amuck.
After centuries of scientific
progress, Trenberth and his ilk have devolved climate science to the pre-Copernican days so that
humans are once again at the center of the universe, and our carbon sins are responsible for every problem caused by an
ever - changing natural world.