Sentences with phrase «human progress means»

Passive investing is based on surrendering to the idea that we don't know the answers except in the most macro sense — that human progress means markets move up and to the right.

Not exact matches

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).

Instead humans become what they are meant to be through a slow, laborious process, and the only way to progress is to overcome what impedes moral and spiritual vision.

It articulates an anthropology (to be human means to define oneself), an ethics (maintaining difference arbitrarily is wrong), and an eschatology (the progress of history).

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.

Surely Kass does not mean that whatever nature brings to the human body is acceptable (indeed, he praises much of medical progress).

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.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

The temptation is enhanced by the long nurtured illusion of social progress, which leads men to believe that the meaning of human existence must be realized in some organization of human societies dwelling on the planet.

«Our destiny,» says the third, «is to replace ourselves with machines, which means that technological ingenuity and human progress are one and the same.»

Progress has eaten away corrosively at all the frameworks that helped to give coherent form, meaning, and purpose to human existence.

The aim of this meeting was to enrich the Coalition's contributions to ongoing discussions about the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress in regional human rights bodies and at the United Nations by exploring challenging conceptual questions about the meaning of the right and its application in practice.

For the past decade, the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition has been eliciting the perspectives of scientists, engineers, and health professionals as to the meaning of the right to «enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications» and associated obligations (Article 15, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).

The American Association for the Advancement of Science took another step toward clarifying the meaning of the human right «to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications» and assisting in the eventual implementation of a right that the AAAS Board of Directors has endorsed as central to its mission.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science took another step toward clarifying the meaning of the human right «to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications» and assisting in the eventual implementation of a right that the AAAAS Board of Directors has endorsed as central to its mission.

Because science means human progress!

FLAG - ERA contributes to the construction of the two Flagship initiatives on graphene and human brain research, and also offers support to the four non-selected pilots to progress towards their goals with adapted means.

It is clear that while we have made incredible — and I do mean incredible — progress in the field of human genetics and genomics, there are still many unanswered questions.

Juxtaposing the instinctual need to survive against the immense desire of consumption through the overabundance and excess of available produce, Xu Zhen brings to the forefront the everlasting human idiosyncrasy to continuously progress and expand by any means necessary.

We are excited and awed by the potential to create an intelligence which exceeds our own, however at the same time, in the hypothetical moment when artificial intelligence has progressed to the point of a greater - than - human intelligence, civilization and perhaps even what it means to be human changes radically.

It may also mean there's more readiness to embrace complexity and uncertainty instead of trying to downplay these factors when considering ways to foster human progress on a finite planet.

To make progress, we believe our discussions could focus on deepening our understanding of what we exactly mean by «meaningful human control».

The defiance evident in Australia's response to the first cycle of UPR in 2011, characterised by its lack of progress and failure to implement recommendations it has previously accepted, highlights the challenges ahead in promoting international collective action as a means of protecting the human rights and health of disadvantaged minorities such as Australia's First Peoples.»

It's not a mystery that PAIRS has been embraced by people of diverse faiths and backgrounds because the course addresses the very heart of what it means to be human in relationship with others humans — all of whom are living, learning, growing, struggling works in progress who most often do the best they can based on their own life experience, early models, and accessible skills.