Sentences with phrase «if human happiness»

And yet, if human happiness is even half as complicated as the stock market, there is little reason to assume that intuition provides a sufficient guide.

And yet, if human happiness is even half as complicated as the stock market, there is little reason to assume that intuition provides a sufficient guide.

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If a species of whales becomes extinct while whalers become prosperous, the potential loss to human happiness is great, and only if greater human possibilities are created is the deed justifieIf a species of whales becomes extinct while whalers become prosperous, the potential loss to human happiness is great, and only if greater human possibilities are created is the deed justifieif greater human possibilities are created is the deed justified.

If they financially support an effort to deny a group of human beings a basic human right, one that the Declaration of Independence declared to be «inalienable» (the pursuit of happiness), then yes, they are in point of fact spreading hate.

Augustine and Aquinas, of course, do argue for a plan in history and for a human end of happiness — and for the reality, if one is not too squeamish to use the word, of heaven.

If MacIntyre is captive to the terms of this disjunction, it is because, with Aristotle, he fails to distinguish adequately two branches of knowledge: eudaimonology, the object of which is human happiness and the means to attain it; and ethics, the object of which is human conduct in the light of reason as differentiating good from evil.

And since everything in the universe acts according to a definite pattern (electrons whiz round the nucleus of an atom and humans desire happiness - even if they are mistaken in what they do to try and get happy - and acorn trees produce acorns) then it is safe to say that there must be an intelligence moving the universe.

If one believes that humans are ultimately material creatures who find their happiness in this world, if one believes that there is no higher intimacy than that of sex, then the logic of radical inclusion can not help but allow — can not help but demand — that the disabled have seIf one believes that humans are ultimately material creatures who find their happiness in this world, if one believes that there is no higher intimacy than that of sex, then the logic of radical inclusion can not help but allow — can not help but demand — that the disabled have seif one believes that there is no higher intimacy than that of sex, then the logic of radical inclusion can not help but allow — can not help but demand — that the disabled have sex.

If one in ten of the ex-Catholic JWs in Britain returned to the Church, there would not only be a substantial increase in the sum total of human peace and happiness among all those people, but there would also be a strengthening of the Church in Britain.

If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, GoIf our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, Goif they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.

For amid all the advantages of contemporary life, where fewer people suffer disease, hunger, or lack of opportunity than in years past, there still is probably no increase in the sum total of human happiness and very slight advantage, if any, in the main business of making sense of one's life.»

As for freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: If you actually believed in those things, you wouldn't be a zealot of the homosexual anti-marriage lobby trying to force churches and normal humans to accept deviancy as «normal», Amigo.

Remember if we want to overcome our (very human) instinct to measure our happiness against the happiness we see around us, we must realize that our perception of others» happiness is often very wrong.

If I had to summarize all the causes of human happiness in one word, that word would be «social.»

The human side of the family comes off as dysfunctional, and sometimes unlikable, but we still root for a reunion because we like the animals enough to want them to achieve a happiness in the end, even if it is with petulant doofuses (kidding!).

If «Happy - Go - Lucky» was a discursive thesis on the merits and challenges of making one's own happiness, «Another Year» continues that investigation, while taking human loneliness as its essay subject.

In essence, this philosophy affirms that happiness, prosperity, and peacefulness could only be attained if the God, humans, and nature live in harmony with each others.

If the enterprises we choose to pursue — which achieving them, Dubos states, brings us happiness — are at the expense of the natural environments that provide our communities and families and children with the biological Joie de Vivre, then we're not human.

The trick, for we humans, as individuals, is to effectively deal with what «is», on a purely personal level, in the first place, upon which achieving said success, one can then go about helping others, if indeed help is requested, to achieve their individually defined «happiness» goals.