They are indispensable
instruments of our being human.
Not exact matches
If we think
of the corporation (for - profit or otherwise) as an
instrument or technology by means
of which people seek to achieve their goals, then it becomes clear that the rights (or «rights»)
of different kinds
of corporate persons depend not on what kind
of entity they
are, but on the the demonstrable goals
of the
human beings involved.
Two closed trial sessions took place on August 22 and September 24 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court
of Judge Abolqasem Salavati, who
is known to
human rights organizations for
being an
instrument of Iran's security apparatus.
Where the power
of those
instruments needs to
be limited, as it surely sometimes does, it can not
be done by pulling the rug out from under individual,
human liberties.
I
am not arguing that these alternative
instruments will
be successful in countering asset price bubbles and credit imbalances, because I think bubbles
are a permanent feature
of the landscape resulting from entrenched
human behaviour.
«All methods and techniques — and
of course all
human beings who propound them —
are merely
instruments to help the student attain a methodless technique - free teacherless state.
By this he meant that the
human brain, along with its senses, and with
is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific
instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds
of the REAL world (the territory).
Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda
of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has
been upon «the destabilization
of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction
of an ever - widening range
of human activities and relations to the status
of commodities and
instruments, rather than ends in themselves.
If all mankind catalyze world opinion in support
of human dignity and the worth
of personhood, together with all the wealth
of rights and values already part
of U.N.
instruments and international jurisprudence, there
is hope.
That risk
was to put the means and
instruments of beatitude and salvation into
human hands — which
is to say, into the hands
of sinners who would inevitably make a mess
of things from time to time.
In the case
of aphasic speech, for example, the body remains that «
instrument for the production
of art in the life
of the
human soul» (
AI 349), but the final artist merely lives off his previous acquisitions.
To all appearance the ultimate perfection
of the
human element
was achieved many thousands
of years ago, which
is to say that the individual
instrument of thought and action may
be considered to have
been finalised.
But all we want
is to help our people, to
be instruments of mediating the Word and the finger
of God to these
human, likable, troubled, and sinful people.
If
human awareness
is of the magnitude
of substantial portions
of the brain, the question arises as to whether we could ever see it externally or otherwise detect it through scientific
instruments.
This egalitarian position grows out
of the view that knowledge
is simply an
instrument to serve
human interests and that there
are no criteria
of value beyond those
of human satisfaction.
Virginity
is the ideal
of the holy person not because he or she
is filled with a deep hatred
of the
human body, but because Christ
was ihidaya meaning that Christ had singleness
of purpose to
be the
instrument of God's will and thought.
Human potentiality is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal instrument open to employment by God but with full human freedom retained — adequate for the divine pur
Human potentiality
is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity
of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal
instrument open to employment by God but with full
human freedom retained — adequate for the divine pur
human freedom retained — adequate for the divine purpose.
There
are four types
of evil
of which the modern age
is particularly aware: the loneliness
of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific
instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality
of which modern man has become aware through the writings
of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development
of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation
of human life within the totalitarian state.
When the self
is committed to the Second Good, its stock
of memory, intelligence, relationships, health, and wealth becomes the
instrument for the concrete achievement
of security, justice, liberty, or fraternity within the domain
of personal relations and in the larger world
of human institutions.
It breaks through
human life,
human time, and into
human history, and in doing so, it possesses and releases its own power, with or without the consent
of the
human instrument through whom the Word
is proclaimed.
And so in Christianity we again come upon that mysterious law
of additivity and social heredity which in every field governs the processes
of Life; while at the same time the fundamental role
of education
is again manifest, as the
human instrument of divine instruction.
We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action
of God a
human life
was taken and made into the
instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression
of very God,
was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest
of God's work in and for God's
human children.
Once they
are unmasked, shown for what they really
are, religious belief and the idea
of God can
be useful
instruments of human self - understanding, revealing to us our essential nature and worth.
By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who
are in need, will
be not merely a reflection
of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an
instrument for the bringing about
of just such shalom or «abundance
of life» for God's
human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action
of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range
of human life and experience.
According to Kant, to say nothing
of common moral sense,
human beings are subjects and as such should never to
be treated as mere
instruments or objects.
Human sovereignty
is due more to our language than to our techniques and
instruments of war.
They
are the
instruments that
human beings have fashioned for purposes
of communication.
Indeed, our whole society instead
of ordering economic matters for the sake
of overall
human and social well
being has subordinated itself to the market as the
instrument of producing wealth.
Aquinas respects this metaphysical principle byarguing that the semen
is operating like an
instrument or tool
of a fully
human cause, namely the father.
Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition
of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature
is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge
of nature as their
instrument, can it really
be liberating to exchange the rule
of nature for the role
of arbitrary
human will?»
Closer investigation, however, shows that imagination can not
be altogether rationalized and treated as a meter
instrument of human thought and willing.
The unique factor about the present situation
is that the vast
human potentiality for destructiveness (in blocked creativity)
is now armed with fiendish
instruments of mass annihilation.
If love
of neighbor
is not a sentimental attitude but actual response to
human needs, science can obviously
be a potent
instrument of good will.
Can the church
be an
instrument of the Spirit, a witness to a vision
of a world brotherhood in which increasing knowledge and know - how
are put in the loving service
of human need?
Human work
is the
instrument God uses to get things done he wants done: the planet cared for, people educated, housed, the mind expanded through study, the heart lifted through the manufacture and playing
of musical
instruments... the poor fed, the sick healed... Our charitable giving helps the poor, but creating a decent job helps them more.
But in his eyes
human speech does not exclude the possibility
of extending its philosophical use beyond its initially limited range
of employment and
of becoming capable
of describing actualities it
was not originally cut out for «Every science must devise its own
instruments.
Effective preaching
is an invaluable
instrument of pastoral care — «perspective - giving, appreciation - perceiving and insight - creating discipline
of the
human spirit.»
Another effect that gives cause for alarm
is that a man who grows accustomed to the use
of contraceptive methods mayforget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to
being a mere
instrument for the satisfaction
of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection... [So] In preserving intact the whole moral law
of marriage, the Church
is convinced that she
is contributing to the creation
of a truly
human civilisation» (HV 17 - 18).
That
was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental
instrument of government that embraced basic
human rights, had an independent judiciary.
There
are realms
of human experience where the scientific method, as commonly understood,
is simply not the right
instrument to use.
The possible blight which might come to the
human spirit if a minority
of wholly ruthless men should achieve a monopoly on the
instruments of power that make the world all one province, technically,
is a reasonable cause for fear.
As James Barr pointed out, «Fundamentalism
is the imposition upon the Bible
of a particular tradition
of human religion, and the use
of the Bible as an
instrument of power to secure the success and influence
of that religion.»
Humans» communion with each other
is also an
instrument of the fuller communion with God.
Nevertheless, he believes that only by healing and building for the increase
of justice and
human good, and not by destruction, can the State
be the
instrument of God.
In the opening chapter
of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, the Church
is defined as the «sacrament...
of the unity
of the whole
human race,» that
is to say, the sign and
instrument by which
human beings are united in authentic communion with God and with one another.
If one
were to take totality
of some fifty major international and regional
human rights
instruments the number
of rights would obviously increase even further.
Of course, reflection had to be informed by understanding and here all the instruments of human social sciences had to be recognize
Of course, reflection had to
be informed by understanding and here all the
instruments of human social sciences had to be recognize
of human social sciences had to
be recognized.
While life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness
are valuable
human ideals in themselves, they
are by no means «God - given rights,»
are not guaranteed in Scripture, and when such values
are divorced from the understanding that we will answer to God, these rights become some
of the greatest
instruments of death, enslavement, and sadness the world has ever seen.
When scientists frame
human beings as neural machines, recall the hyper - rational rulers
of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels, whose
instruments of measurement fail utterly to capture the whole person and turn the rationalists themselves into twisted souls.
The source
of the corruption
of power
is the spiritual self - alienation
of the
human life and will remain even after class or any other
instrument of it
is gone: ignoring
of this has led to Communism's rejecting democratic checks resulting in the Stalinist totalitarianism.