Sentences with phrase «individual human persons»

The source of dynamic power in any human community, in short, is the creativity locked within the capacities of individual human persons for insight and choice.

And the politics that results from the dialogue is ghastly indeed, because the integration of a single soul calls for much more sacrifice of the parts to the whole than can ever be expected of individual human persons in a city.

He proposes that humanity is in a certain sense naturally religious, for the structure of the individual human person and of corporate human life is pervaded by religion., This is consistent with his view that one can expect to find the mark of the Creator in creation.

Now this passage deals only with the relationship between the individual human person and the state, which is the institution of fullest human community.

Although quite a bit of evidence was produced concerning the difference of human behaviour from animals, the nature of spirit, and the ensoulment of man (both in terms of the ensoulment of each individual human person, and also the initial ensoulment of the first fully human man) were unsatisfactorily addressed.

Not exact matches

Your people are individual humans, not slots on an org chart or Slack profiles.

The most effective leaders inspire people by clearly articulating how the work they do together is helping other human beings and how each person's individual role on the team makes a difference.

Craig Venter, the geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, believes his company Human Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple dihuman genome in 2000, believes his company Human Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple diHuman Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple digits.

The value of Schilt's work is in its use of the experiences of extraordinary people as a lens to reveal how the value of human capital — an individual's education, experience and abilities — is tied to gender perceptions.

Self - comparison can be a strong influence on human behavior, and because people tend to display the most positive aspects of their lives on social media, it is possible for an individual to believe that their own life compares negatively to what they see presented by others.

For most of the history of human civilization, it has provided a basis for trust between people and governments, and between individuals through exchange.

Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price today walked back comments about how Republican efforts to undo Obamacare's individual mandate would increase costs for people who remain insured, saying that his remarks were reported out of context.

Right, Yeshua was a deluded individual that inspired billions of people from various religions and of no religion, transforming lives that were very destructive and turning people into decent human beings — for over 2000 years.

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

The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and people of good will to make every effort to connect the human - rights project to an affirmation of the essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.

It's easy to see individual sins and their aggregate effect alienating people from one another and from God in Sandtown: shooting another human being or stealing to buy drugs are obvious as are landlords who won't deal with lead paint or officers who don't strap prisoners down in the van.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

The economic crisis presently being endured in much of the West and beyond also reflects this truth: the whole meltdown in many ways had its source in that unbridled capitalism that decreed the autonomy of the individual and the moral good of each person being allowed to pursue wealth without any relationship to the rest of human society.

The concept of person, however, extending all the way back to its Latin roots (persona), accepts the social nature of the human individual, and the necessity of social recognition, without ever regarding the individual as reducible to these things.

They have always had as their goal the reconciliation between human solidarity on the one hand and the dignity of individual, concrete persons, situations, and facts on the other.

It focused on human history in contrast to nature, or on the individual person in relation to God.

Person: Noun: A human being regarded as an individual.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

The focus of investigation is neither the human species in general, nor individual persons, but persons in association.

For Keen, the dis - eased person as Homo Faber is the individual who has destroyed both human wholeness and the possibility for new life by denying the «feminine» in favor of the «masculine.»

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.

Man's body is formed from the dust of the earth, but the soul is created by an individual act of God, at which moment the new human person comes into being.

The protest is NOT against science and structure, rather, the protest is against the «dehumanization» of the human being by reducing him / her down to only matter and rules, and is against dismissing the «spirit & soul» which give every individual his / her unique «person.»

The complex of ordered energy that is the human body centred on the brain must itself be integrated through its own individual principle of transcendental control and direction - the centred knowing and loving as person which we call our «soul».

Historical deed means the surmounting of the suffering inherent in human being, but it also means the piling up of new suffering through the repeated failure of each individual and each people to become what it was meant to be.

Christianity has resisted this deep human longing in the name of the value of the individual person.

I have emphasized that, in the human case, one set of such included acts constitutes, with the including act, an individual person.

Our task today is to clearly unpack the nature and virtues of minimal government, now forever wed to the notion of securing rights, without slipping into a anthropological minimalism that radically liberates the abstract human individual at the price of devaluing the complete human person.

The problem may not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true about Christian morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the human person.

Secondly, and more importantly, they realize fully what we human beings only sense obscurely, namely, that the intrinsic dynamism of mind and will within the individual person is toward transcendence, participation in the more comprehensive «mind» and «will» of a community.

An individual, a person, may be moral, but the humans as a species are selfish and greedy.

Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.

Furthermore, theological affirmations regarding the divinely appointed vocation of each individual coincide with concern for the civil and human rights of each person born into the world, no matter how conceived.

Thus each of the participants to the dialogue is in process, continuously growing in knowledge of self, other human beings, the world, etc., and the interaction of these persons in process as individual beings constitutes the broader process which is the community.

He acknowledges that even the «preembryo» has «biological membership in the human community» and must be respected for its «profound potential» to become «an individual in the fullest sense, an undeniable person.»

In that sacred space that stands between the individual and the Creator, no state, society, or other human person dares to intervene.

Could we not view suicide an an act that involves the interrelationship of three parties: the individual person, the human community, and God?

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

In Christian understanding the human person is both uniquely individual and a social creation.

Similarly, because we tend to associate «person» with the human body - mind individual abstracted from his relation to the Thou, we forget that he is only a «person» when he is actually or potentially in such a relation and that the term «personal» applies as much to the relationship itself as to the members of the relation.

I am not convinced that this objectification of humanity into victim and executioner does justice to the complexity of the human individual or to the dynamic of evil... The web that unites victim and tyrant in the same person is more complex than the white hat / black hat caricature that seems banal even in its natural habitat, the «grade B» movie.

In the same way that courses in economics claiming merely to describe human beings as utility - maximizing individual actors in fact influence students to act more selfishly, so liberalism teaches a people to hedge commitments and adopt flexible relationships and bonds.

Carl Henry, for example, was able to respond to Jim Wallis's characterization of the communal, over against the individual, nature of the gospel by saying that he agreed with Wallis's communal definition.67» But Henry's individualistic view of people within human society, while allowing for the community of the church, the importance of the family, and a limited function for the state, remains largely atomistic.

Boethius is not wrong when he says that the human person is an individual substance with a rational nature.

To deny that Jack is gay (or American) may not be to deny his humanity, but it is an attempt to break down who he is as a particular human individual, and it has never been an aim of orthodox Christianity to engage in this sort of ideological project of deconstructing and reconstructing people.