Sentences with phrase «human society today»

Consumption, not population, Pearce concludes, is the main problem confronting human society today.

Although human society today has achieved an immense progress in science, technology, and production it has not been able to mitigate the sufferings of humankind.

Environmental challenges are among the most important issues facing human society today.

It helps us understand human society today by giving us parameters to evaluate our biological and cultural selves.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all human endeavour, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.

Not exact matches

At the core of this new entrepreneurial path is an understanding that in today's world of commerce, good business is relating to customers as humans, creating wealth in a manner that supports everyone winning, for the betterment of individuals and society.

These questions are, as you know, at the heart of many problems in our society today, and it is against the background of such questions that I want to reflect upon the significance of human cloning.

The Sacred Cow of today's society is what could be described as «human autonomy»; the «right» of the individual to do what he or she likes — whenever, wherever...

To put it simply, the concept of gods bares no merit at this current stage in the evolution of the human species and it would be a betterment to the species to have the concept removed from accepted delusional realities so prevalent in todays society.

Yet, both became the making of changes in the institutional structure was not his chief concern and because his human vista was limited by the conditions of a simple peasant society east of the Mediterranean in the first century A.D., he obviously could not foresee or make pronouncements upon the vast complex of particular problems that confront Christians in today's world.

It is being recognized a little more readily today by at least some Marxists and some Christians, that the Communist concern for the welfare of the whole human society, including in particular that of the worker, and the Communist hope for a renewed world with a classless society, find their roots in the Judeo - Christian heritage, and especially the new - world - hope of the prophets of Israel.

Such services would be seen as raising living standards today (albeit in ways whose benefits are not easily computed), and might even improve prospects for material progress by augmenting society's stock of «human capital.»

A Christian view of time and history which preserves the truth and rejects the illusion in man's vision of history can organize and release human energies today as it did in the days of St. Augustine, and as it did in the bright days of the nineteenth century when the prospect of a reborn society on earth seemed to light the way.

Today when it is necessary to human survival itself that the nerve of hope for that better society be kept alive, there is widespread bewilderment and anxiety.

But today we need new visions of a perfected social order, a planetary society in which all men have equal access to the means of human fulfillment in a world brotherhood at peace with nature and with God.

Today, however, the majority of Muslims, and several International Islamic Organizations, will interpret even the fourth category of jihad as a concerted effort to overcome the evil found within human society so that peace with justice is accomplished for all humans throughout the world.

In our world today, there are two continuing tendencies with regard to human life and society, collectivism and individualism.

While I also tend to agree with your stance on the second, it seems to me much less clear - cut; hunting has been an integral part of human survival over the last 100,000 + years and continues to be important today for many traditional societies.

But today, we reaffirm our faith in God, and ask him to guide us as we discern how to move forward to establish a just society, with laws that reflect human nature and promote the common good.

Does not this statement, he asks, mean today «that human life in society, liberated as far as possible from alienations, constitutes the absolute value, and that all religious institutions, all dogmas, all the sacraments and all ecclesiastical authorities have only a relative, that is, a functional value?»

On September 7, 1919, when the «Independent Waldorf School» opened its doors, Dr. Rudolf Steiner stated, «It is not our intention to teach growing human beings our ideas or the contents of ourworld - view» Today, Waldorf schools continue to seek to develop the perceptions and capacities for creative thinking in young adults so that they can shape society for the advancement of humankind out of their own insights and experiences.

And today we should thank them for challenging society's backward ideas about breasts and human milk.

Divisive leaders today play a key role in manipulating such fundamental human predispositions and, indeed, accentuating and unleashing our fears, often even for the most enlightened or informed members of societies.

Today Freedom from Torture joined thirty - three civil society organisations to call on the UN to continue to pressure the Iranian Government to end human rights abuses including torture.

«35 years ago today my beloved father and two of his colleagues of the High Court paid the ultimate price for their commitment to human rights, the rule of law and a fair and just society.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are launching the results of a benchmarking review of human geography today.

Humanists have long been excluded from Thought for the Day, the daily scripted slot on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 that offers «reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news», yet humanists and the non-religious have played an important role in shaping our laws, championing human rights and a fairer society for everyone.

In order for small, roving bands of nomadic humans to evolve into the organised societies we see today, social institutions such as government, a justice system and formal education needed to develop.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The international summit on gene editing, sponsored by Britain's Royal Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academies, has grappled with such thorny questions during three days of sometimes - heated discussion on editing the human genome that comes to a close today.

An experimental drug designed to help regulate the blood's iron supply shows promise as a viable first treatment for anemia of inflammation, according to results from the first human study of the treatment published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology

A 2016 study in Royal Society: Biology Letters confirmed what today's dog owners have told anyone who'll listen: Dogs can interpret a human's emotional state based on the individual's facial expression, a rare interspecies feat.

And as will be presented today at the 25th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), cognitive neuroscientists increasingly are using those emerging artificial networks to enhance their understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the human brain.

The findings could shed light on the role group singing played in ancient human societies, and they suggest ways to encourage group bonding today.

Along with components common to many flowers, P. obtusata gives off some chemicals found in human body odor, the researchers reported here today at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

The results were presented today, Oct. 24, by Dr. Walsh at the American Society of Human Genetics 2013 meeting in Boston.

It is likely that all mammals, including humans, develop their sense of taste in this same way, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, so expectant moms, be careful the next time you have a hankering for anchovies with chocolate sauce.

When the researchers examined where the successful mothers lived during the mating season, they found that they stayed close to human settlements, at a median distance of 783 meters, they report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

An antibody engineered to prevent excessive bleeding in patients with severe hemophilia A may be safe and effective, and require fewer injections than existing options, according to a first - in - human study of the treatment published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

Mosquitoes are capable of carrying Zika and chikungunya viruses simultaneously and can secrete enough in their saliva to potentially infect humans with both viruses in a single bite, according to new research presented today at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).

It extrapolates from today's primitive virtual worlds, like Second Life, to look at a future society in which humans live vicariously through their robotic doppelgängers.

BOSTON — A heated discussion broke out here today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics over a hot - button topic: When will we know enough about rare cancer risk genes to begin routinely testing for them in patients with a family history of cancer?

Now, preliminary work reported here today at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting suggests that men who have more CNVs than average may be more likely to sire children with the eye cancer retinoblastoma.

(WASHINGTON, August, 27, 2014)-- An experimental drug designed to help regulate the blood's iron supply shows promise as a viable first treatment for anemia of inflammation, according to results from the first human study of the treatment published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

In an opinion piece for Yale e360, he and Anne Ehrlich write: «Many human societies have collapsed under the weight of overpopulation and environmental neglect, but today the civilization in peril is global.

Shimul Chowdhury, director of the clinical laboratory at the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, presented data today (October 19) on six case studies of NICU infants at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Orlando.

The study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, analyzed the vocal sequences of seven different species of birds and mammals and found that the vocal sequences produced by the animals appear to be generated by complex statistical processes, more akin to human language.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Yet exactly how human societies evolve from small groups to the huge, anonymous complex societies of today has long remained a mystery.