Sentences with phrase «human purposes»

Though they do deny the unlimited autonomy of the human will, they also constitute conditions for the realization of human purposes.

Likewise, understanding of the behavior of material systems makes possible the invention of technical devices for making the energies of nature serve human purposes.

If you want the average human purpose to be positive, then go out and show people kindness.

None of the major human purposes can any longer be fulfilled apart from a world perspective.

Our product has both iconic meaning and fundamental human purpose.

We may deliver our children into the world with tremendous technical power, but it is rarely with a well - developed sense of human purpose to guide its use.

One element in its meaning is that the whole creation does not exist just for human purposes.

(I am assuming, of course, that the job is one that serves good human purposes.)

And so we're charged with subordinating our technological accomplishments — wonderful displays of the freedom we have been given that are often won at the expense of nature — to properly human purposes.

«There's this really large human purpose that guides the work,» says Cohen.

The aim of work is to impress some temporary human purpose upon some component of the world; the aim of explanation is to reveal the world as it is and not merely in respect of its potential to satisfy human wants.

The higher possibilities of human purpose emerge only because of the importance that previous human achievements have left to be appropriated.

If, as I have emphasized, the economy should be in the service of wider human purposes, and these are best determined by popular participation through governments, then global economic institutions must be subordinated to global political organizations.

It is the very nature of myth to obscure the basic human purpose it exists to serve.

This account adds yet another dimension to the interplay of God with the world where human purpose is shown to be only temporarily effective when it is disobedient to God's purpose.

Unless now, in a world whose destiny is controlled by human purposes, we concentrate on finding ways in which an excessive human population can survive without destroying everything else and therefore also itself by the time population begins to fail from, say, the ten billion that can not be avoided except by catastrophes, there will be little left to recover.

There is a desire to discover supernatural laws for human happiness, a willingness to cooperate with a purpose higher than the transitory human purpose, a longing to communicate with the Creator and an attempt to grasp some security which transcends physical death.

Without coercive efficient causation human purpose would be meaningless.

Third, efficient causation dependably passes on novelties introduced so that human purpose involving vast reaches of time and space may be expressed.

The regularities of the brain and the emergent features of human purposes enable us to connect brain, mind and God in an understandable and fruitful way.

The coercive power of efficient causation is necessary for actualization, provides for dependable generalizations which may guide human purpose, and furnishes a matrix of relativity in which the purpose may be expressed.

But for the most human purposes the continuity is much more important than the concreteness, and although Hartshorne admits this, he does not see much force in the point (p. 195).

We discipline our bodies for the sake of distinctively human purposes.

Self - conscience human purpose is found in the higher orders, thus the author opposes a reductionist interpretation of emergent novelties.

This does not mean that something very like self - conscious human purpose is to be found in amoebae, but it does mean that there must be some continuity between an amoeba's response to its environment and the response of higher organisms (including human ones) to theirs.

The duality can be somewhat reduced by considering how blind are many of the processes that shape human history, but it is not the intention of process philosophy to deny human purposes an important role.

The remains of plants processed for human purposes molder in landfills across the world.

Teal Burrell discusses human purposes and goals — which we clearly have from biological evolution (28 January, p 30).

Question from Cassie: I need an athiest view on Reality, Knowledge, Human Nature, Human Problems, Solutions to Human problems, Human Value, Human Purpose Many people ask why someone like me, who came from a Christian home, went to a Christian high school and then went on to spend five years in seminary and

They do not start by asking what children need to do to adapt to a machine world, but rather, which technologies can best serve human purposes at every educational level and how we can prepare children to make wise decisions about their use in the future.

Yet the core gameplay loop of Horizon Zero Dawn relies on the fact that they yield to human purposes much more pliantly than the animals they resemble.

if the numbers of animals that are raised for human purposes remains relatively constant, the atmospheric greenhouse gas load doesn't change at all from this source.

The value of nonhuman life forms is independent of the usefulness these may have for narrow human purposes.

«Weather modification is generally considered to be the deliberate effort to improve atmospheric conditions for beneficial human purposes.

Brian concludes by advising the president to follow the example not of FDR, whoses anti-Depression policies weren't so successful, but of JFK, who most astutely judged with his own eyes what policies actually promote prosperity and growth (both are good things, if used well according to properly human purposes).

The natural world existed to serve human purposes.

Templeton, a devout Presbyterian, established the foundation in 1987 to serve as a «philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality,» according to its mission statement.

LA NY: Aerial Photographs of Los Angeles and New York (Thames & Hudson, November 7, 2017) is a dazzling visual tale of two cities, Los Angeles and New York, photographed from the air, shooting straight down to emphasize the particular patterns of place and how the urban grid adapts to local topography — and, indeed, how the topography is itself adapted to human purposes.

Governed by a «principle of immanence,» Kant's project makes God a servant of human purposes.