Sentences with phrase «humankind as»

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.»

For most of the Holocene it was possible to regard humankind as just another species.

The IPCC is harming the public health and welfare of all humankind as it pressures governments to seek to limit energy choices instead of seeking ways to help expand energy availability (or, one would hope, just stay out of the market).

Finally, it is one in which commercial whaling, including that being cast as scientific in nature, gives way — once and for always — to the lucrative and sustainable enterprise of whale watching, which, properly conducted, promises to bring benefits both to humankind as well as to whales and other species inhabiting the world's oceans.

Drawing on feng shui and Eastern philosophy, Cai's works address increasingly universal questions of concern to humankind as a whole while remaining rooted in a uniquely Chinese outlook on the universe and Asian though and philosophy.

In 2001, photographs from Graham's series Paintings were included in the group exhibition Plateau of Humankind as part of the 49th Venice Biennale.

Employing the backdrop of the newly colonised Mars, artists are invited to reflect on the «politically stuck and contradictory state of the present - day Earth» and fantasise on the potential of humankind as they set about establishing a new society on the rust - coloured planet.

Ms. Larsen's art puts me in mind of Richard Lindner, another painter who envisioned humankind as an unceasing parade of automatons engaged in ritualistic narratives.

Also known as the platinum province for its platinum mines, it acts as a natural thoroughfare for travellers en route to Botswana, and competes with Gauteng to claim the Cradle of Humankind as one of its tourist highlights — the others are, of course, the Pilanesberg National Park...

The fight and flight response seen in dogs, is an innate survival instinct you still see in humankind as well.

And when one considers the millions of women denied freedom thanks to Islamic Fundamentalism and the millions more slaughtered during religious wars, moral crusades can also be as damaging to humankind as profiteering.

Humankind as a whole is in the process of moving from traditional arrangements of ranked honour to a new vision of human dignity nourished by right relationships.

David Fincher's smartly written, expertly told chronicling of the dawn of the Facebook era — and, more subtly, of the impact it's had on the devolution of humankind as a social animal — is just that compelling, that engrossing, that hard to resist.

The plot of this film is supposed to be a remake of the vintage «Conquest of the Planet of the Apes», chronicling how Caesar became the first ape to talk through the study of genetic testing and experimentation, leading to the demise of humankind as we know it.

There's something fundamentally powerful about the film's (and book's) understanding of humankind as the push - and - pull between enslavement and freedom, though the directors are better off expressing its themes in a flurry of gorgeous images than in the overly explicit voiceover narration.

Now, a new genetic study of moa fossils points to humankind as the sole perpetrator of the birds» extinction.

Adler and Maslow saw active and engaged «social interest,» or a sense of oneness with all humankind as a more mature and fully realized mode of being.

Earlier, his interest was focused in the past; now he was chiefly concerned for the future: of his community, his fellow Christians, other faith communities, and humankind as a whole.

Through contemplation one arrives not only at personal wholeness, but also, through the activation of the image of God within, at transcultural maturity, so that one can take humankind as the community in which one's membership matters most.

Wach always asserted that the method of the history of religions must be commensurate with its subject matter, that is, the nature and expressions of the religious experience of humankind as that experience has been unfolded in history.

If her training eventually pulls her back into her professional role so that she is able to study her reactions, she may notice that she has been led to picture the story of humankind as being played out solely by males: inventing language, passing it on to the next generation of sons, inventing pottery for use as containers, fashioning needles in order to make better clothing.

The understanding of the process character of cognition, in the history of humankind as well as in respect to the individual, brought Piaget to renew decisively the issue of cognitive theory.

He never believed society could become perfect, but he saw humankind as progressing swiftly toward the kingdom.

According to the intention of its founder, genetic epistemology should examine how scientific thinking, as it pertains to the established sciences, becomes possible in the development of the individual from child to adult; genetic epistemology should further ask about the relationships between this ontogenetic process and the phylogenetic process of the history of humankind as the history of science.

The crucial significance of religious humanism for new turns in religious thought consists in its illumination of radical freedom / autonomy as the essence of human reality and its program to construct a systematic theology / philosophy on the exclusively anthropological foundation of the functional ultimacy of humankind as the theological singular.

This God, who condescends to man and comes so near the humankind as though He were one of them — this God the heathen do not have.

Such a view, however, fails to appreciate the nature of humankind as male and female» indeed, in the language of Jews and Christians, the creation of humankind as a sexually differentiated species in which we come to know ourselves only through encountering the sexually other.

Basically I try to look at the bigger picture and do what's most beneficial for myself, others, and humankind as a whole.

For Wyschogrod, theologically significant conversation between Jews and Christians is possible because both Christianity and Judaism acknowledge «a movement of God toward humankind as witnessed in scripture,» a movement that engages humankind in God's election of Israel.

This limit consists in humanity's inability to nullify God's purpose: the election and redemption of Israel and through Israel of humankind as a whole.

If this end were acknowledged, then female warriors would represent the same tragic defeat for humankind as do male warriors.

If one uses the precept of Love for humankind as decision making, it is not clear, then, that the Papacy has to go?

The creation story in the first chapter of Genesis depicts the creation of humankind as male and female, sexually differentiated and enjoined by God's grace to sustain human life through procreation.

I think a combination of Christianity (micro: this life time) and Hinduism (Macro-scale) is the best for humankind as both religions, despite their dogmas and some imperfections, by and large are most tolerant.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

Not exact matches

One thing you won't hear him championing is the unfettered rise of artificial intelligence, which he once described as the «biggest existential threat» to humankind.

And if banks are doing God's work — and «lift people out of poverty,» as Blankfein said at the Clinton gathering last year, how can encouraging talent to leave that work to join the government be beneficial for humankind?

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

Just as nobody forecast social networks, blogging or Netflix in the 1990s, the absence for now of any tangible applications other than bitcoin for the blockchain merely points to humankind's deficient imagination.

Just as I was oblivious for much of my life to the problems posed by bearing and rearing children, so humankind was blissfully undisturbed for most of....

Just as I was oblivious for much of my life to the problems posed by bearing and rearing children, so humankind was blissfully undisturbed for most of its history by the conundrums this book addresses.

About how for Maximus Arseny's office as healer belongs to humankind in full as a cosmic priesthood.

Cause and effect... natural consequences... civil law... nurturing care of humankind (yeah, animals too) and of the Earth and its resources (and of the universe as we venture out there).

Vic: «God did not cause people to crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, rather, as God is Omniscient, He knew beforehand what man will do at «Free Will,» and He (God) therefore predetermined the counter measure accordingly, hence turning the evil doing of condemning the Lord Jesus Christ to the Cross † into Salvation for humankind.»

Can such a vision be translated into social reality on a continent where sectarian passion and conflict are as old as humankind?

As Hildegard of Bingen reminds us, the earth «forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.»

Do these early texts, and does Christianity as a religion, contain an appreciation for humankind's highest virtues and most noble ideals?»

Christian believers should look upon themselves as just such a creative minority, helping Europe to reclaim what is best in its heritage and thereby to place itself at the service of all humankind.

If the union between man and woman has strayed further and further from legal forms, and if homosexual unions are perceived more and more as enjoying the same standing as marriage, then we are truly facing a dissolution of the image of humankind bearing consequences that can only be extremely grave.

Even humankind itself can be treated as an instrument, since the individual does not matter, only the future, the cruel deity adjudicating over one and all.