Sentences with phrase «individual dignity of the human being»

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The Modern notion of individual autonomy is an attenuated or thinner version of the Christian conception of the dignity of the human person.

Where are the professors... who will stand up and declare that the presumption of innocence rightly gives expression to both the belief in the dignity of the individual and the awareness of human fallibility?»

Moreover, in keeping with the Church's teachings on subsidiarity, free will and real love, it seems most if not all the issues raised in the letter questioning Speaker Boehner's faith would be more efficient, effective, just and respectful of human dignity if they were left to the individual, family, community or state level.

Since religious freedom is based on the inherent dignity of the human person there is no question of it permitting the treatment of individuals to be based on the view that some are of a lesser dignity than others.

The Declaration «affirms the worth, dignity and autonomy of the individual and the right of every human being to the greatest possible freedom compatible with the rights of others».

The paper says it is «an affront to human dignity and worth» to produce a class of individuals to serve as disposable soldiers.

It is evident from what has already been said that the ethics of Jesus are predominantly concerned with the dignity and responsibility of the human individual face to face with God.

Reno develops several lines of argument against the view that respect for human dignity is consistent with, let alone requires, that liberty be understood as the individual's projection of the self onto the universe.

From the Christian and Jewish point of view, the Creator himself set before every single individual this inalienable choice and thus gave to every human being a dignity higher than that of any other creature on this earth.

In 2002, at the 50th anniversary of the World Humanist Congress in Amsterdam, the gathered participants signed a declaration affirming «the worth, dignity and autonomy of the individual and the right of every human being to the greatest possible freedom compatible with the rights of others».

In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the Pope expressed this relationship within the framework of the common good: «It is urgently necessary, for the future of society and the development of a sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate human and moral values which flow from the very truth of the human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person: values which no individual, no majority, and no State can ever create, modify, or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect, and promote.»

The negative goals liberals pursue can be summarized under the heading of the avoidance of evil: to protect the liberty of individuals from «dictatorship, torture, poverty, intolerance, repression, discrimination, lawlessness,» and other affronts to human dignity.

The term is used to justify a social injustice both in terms of denying gay and lesbian individuals equal treatment guaranteed by our Constitution and also denying them human dignity.

Such a society will ensure that satisfaction of human needs takes immediate priority over the satisfaction of anyone's desires, and that the dignity of each individual is honored by providing opportunity for all persons to participate responsibly in decisions which will affect their individual lives and the common good.

Christians hold that faith in God is inseparable from the building of true human communities bound together by a love that respects the dignity and worth of each individual.

The human individual, as a concrete instantiation of a rational and free nature, is «distinct by reason of dignity», and because of this we attribute to him the word person.

Experimental procedures can be licit if they «respect the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but rather are directed to its healing, the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual survival»; but the mere «use of human embryos or fetuses as an object of experimentation» is «a crime against their dignity as human beings.»

To Eunice Shriver, all of these individuals are capable of expressing and receiving love, possess abilities, and have no less human dignity than those who otherwise might be passing judgment upon them.

The School is committed to being a community that is racially and culturally diverse, that values mutual respect, human dignity, and individual differences, and that is supportive of intellectual, artistic and professional growth.

the greater truth is that totalitarian governments, both left and right, whether burma's military «path to socialism» and cuba's ultra leftist dictatorship have had a similarly corrosive effect on human dignity, squelching individual initiative to prosper at every level of existence.

The key to being human is in the dignity and freedom of the individual.

«Those rights that are fundamentally free are not subject to a majority vote,» she said, adding the challenge of achieving human rights lies in the dignity of acknowledging the rights of all individuals.

One of those humiliations consists in presuming that some individuals have no point of view worth hearing or expressing, and that is tantamount to denying the ontological heft of their point of view (David Luban, Legal Ethics and Human Dignity at 72).

Mr. Brown is the recipient of the American Bar Association's 2015 Pro Bono Publico Award, which honors individuals and institutions that have enhanced the human dignity of others by improving or delivering volunteer legal services to our nation's poor and disadvantaged.

An ameliorative purpose or effect which accords with the purpose of s. 15 (1) of the Charter will likely not violate the human dignity of more advantaged individuals where the exclusion of these more advantaged individuals largely corresponds to the greater need or the different circumstances experienced by the disadvantaged group being targeted by the legislation.

Actions aimed at the incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity, abasement of human dignity, and also propaganda of the exceptionality, superiority, or inferiority of individuals by reason of their attitude to religion, national, or racial affiliation, if these acts have been committed in public or with the use of mass media, shall be punishable by a fine in the amount of 500 to 800 minimum wages, or in the amount of the wage or salary, or any other income of the convicted person for a period of five to eight months, or by restraint of liberty for a term of up to three years, or by deprivation of liberty for a term of two to four years.

And herein lies the beauty and the genius of the UN Declaration of Human Rights: it captures and puts into words — despite differences in race, culture, and religion — a globally accepted baseline of sine qua non elements that contribute to human dignity that all individuals should benefit from regardless of which government is in pHuman Rights: it captures and puts into words — despite differences in race, culture, and religion — a globally accepted baseline of sine qua non elements that contribute to human dignity that all individuals should benefit from regardless of which government is in phuman dignity that all individuals should benefit from regardless of which government is in power.

The «recovery and well - being» language used in the strategy is itself rooted in a human rights perspective where the disabled are not viewed as subjects worthy of charity, but rather individuals who have a right to dignity.