But just as in the realm of sex there may be people who evidently can not satisfy themselves, as in the realm of food there are gluttons, so in
human relations some people seem to have an insatiable desire to use up the time of their friends until they use up their friends.
Not exact matches
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In the survey, we asked
people whether they think
human rights should be the Canadian government's top priority in its relationship with China, and whether they agree that Canada, in considering its trade
relations, should not engage with a communist country with different values and cultures.
It focused on
human history in contrast to nature, or on the individual
person in
relation to God.
To secure a larger combined influence for the Churches of Christ in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the
people, so as to promote the application of the law of Christ in every
relation to
human life.»
There is no
human being apart from
relations with other
people, with other animals, and with the whole of creation.
For example, since skin color has no demonstrable
relation to intellectual ability, esthetic sensitivity, or character, it follows that no significant conclusions about a
person's characteristically
human behavior can be drawn from the nature of his pigmentation.
When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data
human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical
relations.
• the capacity to reach objective and universal truth as well as valid metaphysical knowledge; • the unity of body and soul in man; • the dignity of the
human person; •
relations between nature and freedom; • the importance of natural law and of the «sources of morality,»... • and the necessary conformity of civil law to moral law.
Until recently nature was so vast in
relation to
human beings that
people hardly thought their choices mattered to nature.
Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become
human persons in
relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»
In this context a
relation between
human person and divine creativity, although complex, becomes a meaningful question to consider.
People today who appreciate the uniqueness of each
human being also sense the
relation of this unique.
Rorty chides those who have forgotten Nietzsche's admonition that truth is nothing but «a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms — in short a sum of
human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a
people» (VPN 46 - 7).
There in the closed room, where one probed and treated the isolated psyche according to the inclination of the self - encapsulated patient, the patient was referred to ever - deeper levels of his inwardness as to his proper world; here outside, in the immediacy of
human standing over against each other, the encapsulation must and can be broken through, and a transformed, healed relationship must and can be opened to the sick
person in his
relations to otherness — to the world of the other which he can not remove into his soul.
One may understand the personality of God as His act — it is, indeed, even permissible for the believer to believe that God became a
person for love of him, because in our
human mode of existence the only reciprocal
relation with us that exists is a personal one.
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
persons, either the divine
Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's
Persons of the Trinity or
human persons who act on God's
persons who act on God's behalf.
Through Christian education the fellowship of believers (the church) seeks to help
persons become aware of God's seeking love as shown especially in Jesus Christ and to respond in faith and love to the end that they may develop self - understanding, sell - acceptance, and self - fulfillment under God; increasingly identify themselves as sons of God and members of the Christian community; live as Christian disciples in all
relations in
human society; and abide in the Christian hope.
Similarly, because we tend to associate «
person» with the
human body - mind individual abstracted from his
relation to the Thou, we forget that he is only a «
person» when he is actually or potentially in such a
relation and that the term «personal» applies as much to the relationship itself as to the members of the
relation.
It is the book which the Church recommends
people to read in order to know about God in His
relation to man and the world, to worship Him intelligently, and to understand the aim and the obligations of
human life under His rule.
When
people count most as representations,
human relations suffer, no matter how benevolent the goals.
We may dismiss these young
people as «idealistic», even when at the same time they are criticized for being too «realistic» in (say) their approach to
human relations, especially in sexual matters.
The Corporeal Nature of Freedom and its Sphere Before speaking of the existence of freedom and in freedom something will have to be said about the specifically
human creatureliness of freedom which will clarify the dialectical character of our
relation to our own and other
people's freedom.
The ecological basis of life, rights of
people and
persons, of peoplehood and personhood are the concerns which have brought us to fight against the present pattern of development because it exploits and destroys nature and does injustice to nature and
human's organic
relation to nature.
But the evil is in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some
human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible
persons.14
Besides specifying the
relation of
human and moral values to the truth of the
human person, John Paul also makes clear that in the final analysis, values are grounded in God Himself.
World citizenship can be widely extended among all
people through the application of the principles of mental health... the problem of world citizenship in
relation to
human survival needs to be formulated afresh in the light of new knowledge about aggressiveness in man, group tensions and resentments, race prejudices and nationalist sentiments and stereotypes.
But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the
human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural
relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious
persons.
There is a tendency to overlook interdependency as a part of healthy
human relations, both those of husband and wife and also those of
people in general.
Abolishing all the inhuman conditions of life in society, and thus humanizing the
relation to the material world and nature, the
human person will transcend all forms of alienation.
The interpretation of the present nature of
human beings in any situation, as «made in the image of God» and as «brothers for whom Christ died» should be as
Persons - in -
Relation and destined to become
Persons - in - Loving - Community with each other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite
human freedom reconciled to God.
Christian anthropology's emphasis on
human personhood fulfilling itself in interaction with
persons, leads it to give priority to preserve and develop small - scale social institutions which enable face to face
relations to promote personal values and humanize
people.
The reality of power is complex; and its use and misuse in all
human, social and political
relations and interactions has been a question of utmost importance for all
peoples.
If we presuppose that Christ's
human relationship to God indeed has that paradigmatic quality which Cobb describes, then what is the
relation of his life to
persons who have lived and are living after him?
In the Catholic perspective, the
human person can only find his / her true meaning in
relation to God.
The love commandments of Jesus and his concern for the weak and helpless impel us to political and economic action in our time, although it is generally admitted that what Jesus was talking about was not particular strategies, but the
relation of
persons to God and to one another in every
human relationship.
Twice it refers to (
human)
persons; never to Father, Son and Spirit in
relation to each other.
It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual
relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of
persons: the
relations between occasions which constitute the
human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to
human experience.
By this recreation the believer is constituted as a free
person with responsibility in
relation to Christ and fellow
human beings.
Gustafson argues for the extension of the meaning of justice from «the right
relations between
persons to the right
relations between
human activity and the rest of the world» (Gustafson, 1983, 503).
Even the «law» is understood as «signposts» or «indications» of the best way to organize
human relations for the
people.
But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power
relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if
people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if
people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste
human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power
relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.
The whole plan of creation is precisely directed towards this unique creature, a unity in one
person of matter and spirit with 20 Unlike the rest of created the soul as the Unity — Law for the
human person, in
relation now to God, not merely to matter.
The goal of our digging into our cultural heritage and relating it to the biblical traditions is to promote goodwill towards our fellow
humans and to work together for the welfare of the
people in
relation to the nature and to our Creator, in order that all
humans may be successful in achieving mastery of life (cf. Genesis 1:28, which is interpreted from the wisdom point of view that man has the responsibility to master the world).
There is a universal character of wisdom in
humans» quest for their self - understanding in
relation to the nature,
people and God.
We have all we can do to maintain our integrity as the
people of God, enmeshed as we are in a culture that lives by a debit / credit economy of
human relations and an ethic of keeping score and getting even.
Such consultation may occur at many levels: consultation to pastors concerning problem clients with whom they are working; consultation to a pastor and the church administration regarding
human relation problems in the congregation; consultation to groups or programs in a congregation that are designed to assist
people in the church; consultation to a local, regional, or denominational administration in regard to evaluation of religious candidates,
human relations problems in the administration, or denominational programming related to mental health issues; consultation to a group of churches who sponsor a joint community program.
What matters to us here is that these virtues provide a general definition of civility — of the stance of a
person who, as far as possible, is deliberately and carefully related (attentively and openly, veraciously and responsibly) to all members of the
human race, so far as they are encountered in one's life, yet makes these
relations the substance of a resolutely critical and independent personality.
The meaning of internal
relations as we
humans experience them, is the influence of
people and other things in our lives and the influence of the purposes we choose to serve.