Sentences with phrase «intrinsic value of the life»

Rather we ought to respect the intrinsic value of living beings in and for themselves.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

We can see them first in those who have emphasized the intrinsic value of life, such as Albert Schweitzer.

The intrinsic value of a life is a function of richness of experience of that life.

They ignore the intrinsic value of living organisms.

New memories could not emerge without the underlying states that allow animals to experience the intrinsic values of life.

I have a deep respect for the intrinsic value of every living being because each encounter could ultimately affect the very facets that...

Through passion and purpose, trial and error, and a belief in the intrinsic value of all living things, the founders prevailed.

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Once it gets up to a certain amount you can have fun with it and buy items of intrinsic wealth that continue to increase value over time, such as gold, silver or platinum... Antique jewelry and sterling silver are examples of intrinsic wealth that also have the added bonus of contributing something beautiful to your life.

Buffett's preferred method for evaluating the attractiveness of investments and businesses is intrinsic value, which represents the sum of all of discounted cash flows that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

We (Charlie Munger and I) define intrinsic value as the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

Intrinsic value is a present - value estimate of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

«We define intrinsic value as the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

Death obsession is corroding our society's belief in the intrinsic value and inherent dignity of human life.

For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see intrinsic value in the whole of the living world than by those who are concerned chiefly for peasants and workers.

Bessey powerfully, yet gracefully, compels both genders to rethink the role and value of women in the Christian faith, and emboldens women to know and live out that intrinsic value within the Body of Christ.

The other is to value living organisms because of their intrinsic value to themselves and to God.

We recognized a second responsibility and that was to respect other living creatures, not because they might be of use to us, but because of their intrinsic value in themselves to themselves.

These are moments of intrinsic value, and in too many lives they are largely isolated occasions, few and far between, connected only by long chains of life lived instrumentally.

To recognize the value of living beings in and for themselves, their intrinsic value, is not to deny their relationality; rather it is to recognize that, amid their dependence on their environments, they are concerned with their own survival and well - being.

The dying deserve the latest scientific palliative interventions, and also the venerable recognition of the intrinsic value of every human life.

It is «the intrinsic and instrumental value of every living organism in its relation to its environment and to God» (Birch 1988, 192).

Our aim will be to allow as many forms of life as possible to flourish in their intrinsic and instrumental value.

In its thematization at the 1983 Vancouver Assembly, the phrase integrity of creation was clear in general implication but lacking in exact definition.2 In meetings of the Church and Society Working Committee, the phrase has come to name the intrinsic value that each and every living being has in and for itself as a creature loved by God, and the instrumental value that living beings can have for one another and for God as instances of an evolutionary and web - like creation.

There is intrinsic value, or richness of experience, in every living creature, human or nonhuman.

If a life must be taken, and if instrumental considerations are equalized, it is best to take the life of the being with the lesser capacity for sentience, and hence the lesser degree of intrinsic value.

All things considered, it is always best to allow life to flourish in its diverse expressions, respectful of the fact that each living being has intrinsic as well as instrumental value.

Still others move from the new awareness of the intrinsic value of the world to reflection about how human beings can order their social, political, and economic lives so as to respect this value.

In literature and the arts valuing affects the relation of the arts to human life and the critical standards by which the intrinsic merit of works of art are judged.

«The intrinsic value of human life,» Bailey goes on, «is a given for all sides in this debate.»

Indeed, the unique and intrinsic value of human life merely for being human is under concerted attack across a broad array of disciplines — bioethics, animal rights, radical environmentalism, and Darwinism.

Babies — even those with dire prospects — are precious human beings whose lives have intrinsic dignity and inherent moral value beyond that of any nonhuman.

Humanist though he was, Muretus had learned from the death of Jesus the intrinsic value of all human life.

To choose against this form of life is implicitly to choose against the intrinsic value of each child with Down syndrome.

But I have never felt the need to justify such behavior by thinking they have less of a right to live and blossom (or that they have less intrinsic value as living beings) than other living beings, including myself....

In their interpretation of the second of the eight points they write that this entails «the refusal to acknowledge that some life forms have greater or lesser intrinsic value than others» (71).

They have an intrinsic value that consists of their beauty.7 The value of life, then, does not consist in its precariousness, but in the fact that it is an instance of intensely ordered novelty, of harmonized contrast, that is, of beauty.

If every living creature is a subject, then each has intrinsic value to itself and to God, in addition to any instrumental value each may have in the scheme of things.

Their action suggests that, despite their recognition of elephants as pests, they also recognized that elephants had intrinsic value and had a right to live.

We must take care to explain the medical and scientific fact that embryos and fetuses are human beings and the necessity of recognizing the intrinsic value of all human life.

If human life in its intrinsic value is of value to God, it follows that wherever there is intrinsic value there is value to God.

The central principle of a biocentric ethic is that we deal with living organisms appropriately when we rightly balance their intrinsic value and their instrumental worth.

When we try to balance intrinsic value and instrumental value we need an ethic of intrinsic value that goes beyond Albert Schweitzer's «reverence for life» and other «egalitarian» ethics which rate all life of equal value.

Moreover, the basic principle of motivation — in fact, the «glue» of the whole universe — is the «intrinsic value of experiencing,» «the appeal of life for life, or feeling for feeling, of experience for experience, consciousness for consciousness — and potential enjoyment for actual enjoyment» (BSI 203).

every human life has an intrinsic and absolute value through being created by God, in the image of God;

The refusal to recognize the intrinsic value of an unborn child's life amounts to zealotry.

«The Good Egg» draws a link between the viability of the egg before conception and the intrinsic value of the embryo: «If, as some ethicists argue, nascent life must be protected, how do we assess the degree of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent of the time?»

None of this belittles her worth to history or her intrinsic value as a living being, it merely gives perspective which I believe many do not consider.

Warren Buffett wrote to Berkshire shareholders in 1994: «Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.»

Graham of course gave the value investing community concepts like margin of safety, intrinsic value and the idea of equity ownership representing a stake in a real live business.