Sentences with phrase «humans concerned with»

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.

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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.
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