Sentences with phrase «human progress on»

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.

Here's a proposed strategy for sustaining human progress on a finite planet, in nine Twitter posts.

I've been on the road, learning about damaging and sustainable agricultural methods (and a big corn - to - ethanol plant) in Iowa, meeting with hundreds of science - oriented high school students in Houston to discuss energy and innovation and speaking about how new opportunities for globally sharing and shaping insights and information can be a prime route toward sustaining human progress on a finite planet (and on a tight budget).

But that line of discourse might — in the long run — chart a more productive path toward human progress on a finite planet.

Disclosure Note I'm on the Interim Engagement Committee of Future Earth (a voluntary position), which is a new international hub for coordinating interdisciplinary research aimed at fostering sustainable human progress on this finite planet.

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That, he said Tuesday, is much of the reason he founded SpaceX: After humans successfully landed on the moon in the late 60s and early 70s, progress stalled out.

Instant gratification turns into the need for constant progress, being self - centered turns into the ability to relate to people on a very basic, human level — because we want their attention.

On the other hand, the human way is always recognizable by matters being made easier; and that is called progress.»

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.

Apocalyptic visions flirt with gnostic aeons and Stoic conflagrations, while affirmations of creation lean toward Pelagian schemes of human progress and Epicurean fixations on the here - and - now.

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.

He added: «We also expect to see China to use its increasing power to act to prevent progress on human rights around the world.

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.

On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»

The line of human progress up till now has been «the forming and re-forming of communities on the basis of growing personal independence» — «functional autonomy, mutual recognition and mutual responsibility.»

Another point about the common tradition that requires note if we are to make progress toward sorting out the relation between authority and office is that, within it, authority is a term that is applied in a proper sense only to persons, either the divine Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's behalf.

Further insight into the human condition arises from reflection on the progress of scientific technology generally.

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

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.

i don't understand how religious people find it so hard to accept we changed over time and progressed on our own instead of believeing some all powerful, all knowing thing made humans from dirt.

With all due respect, I must say that the experience of the last violent century, with its widespread faith in human reason and evolutionary progress, hardly warrants optimism about transcending selfishness on those grounds.

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.

When we consider some of the factors that make it difficult to believe in progress in this third sense, it becomes possible to see how they are related to Christian teaching about sin and especially to one element in that teaching: the recognition that the deepest roots of sin are spiritual, that it is on the higher levels of human development that the most destructive perversions of human life appear.

It was a sort of added dividend that when Holy Week and Easter came around, progress through the letter had landed me precisely at Philippians 2:1 - 11: «And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.

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.

The idea of the state, in addition, is a part of the divine strategy for the world.16 There must, therefore, on the part of the finite spirits who are moments in the progress of Spirit in human history, be a constant struggle within the political process to actualize the idea of the state.

Yours faithfully, Christopher Keeffe 155 Butler Road West Harrow Middlesex EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN BODY Dear Fr Editor, In your comment on Fr Kevin O'Donnell's letter, in your November - December issue, you use the words «emergence», «progress» and «evolution» in connection with the origins of the human HUMAN BODY Dear Fr Editor, In your comment on Fr Kevin O'Donnell's letter, in your November - December issue, you use the words «emergence», «progress» and «evolution» in connection with the origins of the human human body.

Again, if it be true that Evolution is rebounding on itself through the fact of human totalization, it must, becoming conscious, fasten passionately upon itself: which is to say that Man, to progress further, will need to be sustained by a powerful collective faith.

Another reason is that our experience does not indicate that even on the human level process has resulted in progress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a human personality have any very effective direct influence on the molecules of body cells, other than those in the brain.

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 progress.

Human progress feeds on death, on the creation's decay.

As to us human beings, though we will go on making scientific and technological progress by leaps and bounds, we are not going to become any wiser in matters of faith and morals.

But I think it's important to pass along the rational view and what it's based on... exactly because I believe striving for more rational thought is a requirement for the (societal, non-genetic) evolution and progress of the human race.

Still, they believe in some human progress, and they emphasize human capacities for reflection on alternatives and choice among them — characteristics that mark them as realistic progressives.

(Obvously the world has progress for the good also I not slamming the progress in health care & with immunisations etc with knowledge but with knowledge becomes power and at what level do the people with power rule how we grow as a society, I know it's not all cloak and daggers, not conspiracy theory's but taking control of what we spend our money on in the market and take away to demand to buy chemicals) buy In the past 50 years us humans have introduced over 75,000 chemicals into our world!

Also, eating in a comparable manner to our precursors has been demonstrated on numerous occasions to offer stunning medical advantages, including counteractive action of most maladies of human progress, for example, tumor, coronary illness, Alzheimers, and other interminable conditions that are generally created by horrible eating routine and way of life.

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Always with the idea of advancing and progressing football and on a human level.

We provided evidence of misleading statements included in the Communications on Progress posted to the UN Global Compact website (which bring the initiative into disrepute) and practices that violate human rights (which break the Global Compact principles).

The Center for American Progress, the Coalition on Human Needs, Witnesses to Hunger, the Food Research & Action Center, Feeding America, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics joined together to launch a national campaign that asked individuals across the country to share their personal experiences with the nation's nutrition assistance programs.

But he's also frustrated with the lack of progress on the Human Rights Act.

«These are the set of people that want justice, fairness and accountability in all aspects of human endeavours as they used to go around with clean heart of helping Police to unravel cases of criminality and always stand on the progress and growth of Nigeria Police Force.

Thus we are really talking about a «progress tax» - a tax on any progression which makes human labour irrelevant.

«In judging our progress as individuals, we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... but internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being: humility, purity, generosity, absence of vanity and readiness to serve our fellow men — qualities within the reach of every human soul.»

The Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research claims that «in some instances, reliance on inaccurate animal «models» of human disease have undoubtedly delayed medical progress.»