LJ - «I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively
human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.»
Shame implies the peculiarly
human concern with self - perfection, guilt the sense of personal responsibility, whereas awe recognizes powers not under human control and beyond human comprehension, before which we feel shamefully small.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively
human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Not exact matches
There are
concerns they may interfere
with the body's endocrine system, linked to
human reproduction.
But Musk's bigger
concern has to do
with AI that lives in the network, and which could be incentivized to harm
humans.
But employees want a living, breathing
human they can share their
concerns with.
John Eppig, a reproductive biologist at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine raised the
concern that no animal studies
with a control group have been done — a standard practice
with experimental medical procedures — yet somehow the procedure is being tried on
humans.
Many robotics and AI experts aren't too
concerned with the long term, believing that machines will ultimately elevate the type of work that
humans do.
What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on
human resource issues, such as dealing
with the
concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.
The health care sector consists of drug companies, medical supply companies, and other scientific - based operations that are
concerned with improving and healing
human life.
A government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Harper intends to raise
human rights
concerns in a «frank dialogue»
with the Chinese leadership — an issue the source described as a «delicate balance.»
Overhauling the
human resources department is a matter of high priority and it will be done to enhance relationships
with drivers and garner feedback from
concerned employees.
Trade is a great driver of productivity, and so the risk of growing protectionism
concerns me.15 More open trade
with the United States and Mexico in the 1990s gave Canadian firms access to much bigger markets and therefore greater incentives to invest — in both physical and
human capital.16 Disrupting supply chains and reducing incentives to compete will not create more jobs and income in the long run.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will issue this notice, saying in its request that it «is is primarily
concerned with vehicles that do not have the means for
human driving, e.g., a steering wheel and brake and accelerator pedals,» though the agency is also seeking input on semi-autonomous vehicles that do require
human interaction.
The streets near New York's City Hall were ear - stinging and windy on the morning of a big Airbnb hearing, but attendees clogged the doorway, and the air inside was thick
with sour
human concern.
«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt
with as a violation of women's
human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis
with which we should all be
concerned.
For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for
human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board
with reforms, no matter how legitimate the
concerns.
Graber is passionately
concerned with the nature of intelligence and the
human capacity for sinful or irrational choice.
Bellah and his colleagues praise religion because they note that religious groups, unlike other groups in our society, are
concerned not only
with the common good of the nation but also
with the common good of all
human beings.
The relationship between God and man,
with which theology (Jewish or Christian) is primarily
concerned, could now only be postulated if it contributed to the elaboration of ethical theory Moreover, the only divine -
human relationship that this new anthropocentrism would tolerate was between a postulated deity and the
human individual.
The Secretary of State should rally corporate America and multinational companies to consider religious liberty along
with other
human rights
concerns when companies decide where to invest.
This belief, that
human activity ought to be directed towards promoting what John Locke called «the advantages and conveniences of life,» and that the
human mind ought to
concern itself exclusively
with gathering together and putting in order the sort of knowledge this enterprise demanded — useful knowledge — is a moral belief, that is, it is a belief about how we ought to spend our lives.
In Systems of Survival (reviewed in First Things, December 1993), Jacobs maintains that
human beings have basically only two ways of making a living, one
concerned with acquiring or protecting territories, and the other
with trading or producing for trade.
Fourth, this
concern with the sanctity of
human life per se was at the heart of the White Rose protest against the murder of the Jews.
Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem
with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that
human salvation
concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.
A
concern that atheists have
with religion, not just Christianity, but all of them, is that they are created by
humans.
If secular legal processes are deeply
concerned with human dignity and the presumption of innocence, how much more carefully should such processes be employed in the Church of Christ?
This climate of intellectual
concern with time and place, for instance, which dominates discussions of «Southern» literature at a largely superficial level, is inescapable to
human experience of existence itself, whatever one's «South.»
It has been a great
concern for humanity to deal
with the natural environment, for the nature has been the «source of
human life» as well as the threat to it at times.
Schweitzer's disenchantment
with theological conceptions of God and his passionate belief in the reality of
human spirituality involved him in a quest that inevitably forced his intellectual and moral
concerns to move beyond traditional theism.
In recent years there has risen a new type of the same
concern in that the advancement of
human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process
with the unforseen consequences.
Its value lies largely in enabling us to see how the whole history of revelation
with which the Bible is
concerned is rooted in the good red earth of our common humanity; in primitive, elemental
human affections and passions, the groundwork still of all our life, however sophisticated and civilized we have become.
But it relativized all of this in its assertion that our
concern is
with God's word and not
human words.
An allegation can
concern embezzlement, pouring out of toxic waste /
human waste into public waters, building safety code violations, stating that those
with AIDS should accept «god's punishment and simply die», and on and on.
The fact that President Trump's executive order allows the government to prioritize individual claims of religious - based persecution from religious minorities — whether Christian, Yazidi, Jew, Muslim, Bahá» í, Buddhist, etc. — should be welcome news to every Christian and everyone
concerned with human rights and religious freedom.
Likewise Camus is sensitive to the «sacred,» but faced
with God's silence, he
concerns himself
with human love and justice.
As every reader knows, the Gospels are overwhelmingly
concerned with the conduct of
human life, of life in the
human commonwealth.
We must believe in the contents of all the messages
concerning the code of laws which aims at the organization of
human life in a way which meets the needs of mankind and promotes
human welfare in accordance
with His justice and mercy.
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David [as far as his
human nature went], but who was marked out as the Son of God
with power [by the holy Spirit] through resurrection from the dead — Jesus Christ our Lord.»
Is not this whole assumption that Jesus was
concerned «
with a new selfhood, irrespective of whether it be conceived individualistically or in terms of the historicity of
human existence, based upon a false theologizing of the historical Jesus?
Deism is the doctrine that God created the world and its natural laws but takes no further part in its functioning, he does not interfere in the day - to - day workings of the universe, he does not
concern himself
with humans and our affairs.
The reality of acceptance before God actually is in itself the grateful involvement in the enterprise of
human culture, and always
with particular and peculiar
concern for the outcast and the suffering ones in the midst of that enterprise.
Since
human forms of relation are evidence of mind, it might appear that the social sciences are
concerned only
with man's mental nature.
First, since process thought
concerns itself
with the totality of
human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact
with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.
While economics as a descriptive study is not
concerned with moral issues, the facts of economic life inescapably point to the moral element in
human nature.
With its
concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the
human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»
The remainder of this chapter will be
concerned with three other kinds of
human relations — economic, political, and familial — and
with what the sciences centrally
concerned with them tell about
human nature and its transformations.
They have been led by experience to conclude that the only power in
human life able to counterbalance the dark and divisive faiths of our time is a still stronger faith, a faith
concerned with Reality rather than
human wishes.
It remembered and taught what Jesus had said about God and man, about the kingdom of God, about
human moral responsibility, and the like, because it was primarily
concerned with something else.
While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common
with this approach, in its overriding
concern to safeguard the unique dignity of every
human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the duty of civil authority to foster the common good.