Sentences with phrase «level of human history»

Our awareness of the «not - yet» at the level of human history leads us to invest our hopes in dreams of ideal social orders.

Not exact matches

With interest rates still hovering near the lowest levels they've ever been in 5,000 + years of recorded human history, it's very difficult to achieve a significant investment return without taking on substantial risk.

Humans will be honest and humble enough to say «we just do nt know if there ever was, or is a «god» out there», and we will progress to levels of love, progress, and understanding never seen before in the history of mankind!

In fact, many in the scientific community believe that the increasing march of the average level of human intelligence (I.Q.) is just one reason that we have more non-believers now, than at any other time in history.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

Therefore this communion is the meaning of history when «meaning of history» refers to something that is going on in history which is of supreme importance for the human level of existence.

The meaning of history is the creation of the human level of existence when human level means that level where there can be indefinite increase in range and depth of values appreciated and evils distinguished; indefinite increase in range and depth of what can be known and controlled; indefinite increase in the depth and complexity of man's subjectivity, both conscious and unconscious.

With this understanding of what distinguishes the human level of existence it is plain that man has been progressively created by a process of history.

If this is what has been and is being created, we ask: What amid all the other processes going on in history is the one process that does this creating and will here be called the creativity in history, so called because it does progressively create the human level of existence when required conditions are present.

How far this creativity can go in creating the human level in the case of any one individual depends partly upon his innate capacity but most of all upon two other features: (1) how wide and deep is the volume of history that reaches him, that is, how abundant and coherent are the values that have been accumulated in the history he inherits and (2) how deep is the communion he is able to have with other persons who embody these meanings accumulated through a long sequence of generations.

It's simply a fact that a number of attrocities in history have been carried out in the name of Christianity — however, many atheist leaders of the last 100 years have taken human suffering to a new level... Marx (killed an estmated 20 mil of his own people), Hitler (killed 10 million people) Mao Zedong (up to 50 mil!)

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.

There is no convincing evidence that a creator has favored any particular population, Christian or otherwise, over others during human history in terms of the natural levels of mortality.

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air is now at its highest level in human history, largely because of coal - burning power plants and vehicle emissions.

Humans depend on high levels of ecosystem biodiversity, but due to climate change and changes in land use, biodiversity loss is now greater than at any time in human history.

«It will be interesting in the future to do a full study of human populations using this strain - level method to see whether we can use bacteria to reconstruct the history of human migrations,» he said.

In May 2013, the CO2 concentration in Earth's atmosphere surpassed a milestone of 400 ppm for the first time in human history, a level that many scientists consider dangerous territory in terms of its impact on Earth's climate.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

April will be the first time in human history where levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide were higher than 400 parts per million for an entire month, one scientist who monitors the levels said.

Abstract: Models investigating the effects of climate change and human - led land - use change on biodiversity have arrived at alarming conclusions, with the worst case scenarios suggesting extinction rates at such a level as to constitute a sixth mass extinction event in the earth's history.

The end of April has arrived, and with it, the record for the first month in human history with an average carbon dioxide level in Earth's atmosphere above 400 parts per million has been set.

The reasons include human history, western culture, conflicts of interest at the government and other levels, humans who love good news about bad habits whether that news is true or not, and a failed media who cares more about sensationalism and making money than spreading the truth..

We are surrounded by conflicting ideas across all levels of humanity: different cultures; readings of nature and the universe; political ideologies and systems of government; interpretations of human history, the history of art and definitions of contemporary art.

The Arctic sea ice just reached its lowest level in thousands of years and in a few years you will be able to sail a boat to the North Pole for the first time in human history.

We are changing the climate, but remember we are also going through mineral resources very fast, population is still exploding near exponentially, we are altering the entire landscape and biosphere of the planet often in destructive ways, and loading up future generations with huge levels of financial debt, all at the same time, and within a very short time period of human history.

But we are now entering a world with atmospheric CO2 levels that never existed any time in the entire history of our evolution as modern humans.

A longer and better - quality history of sea level rise has increased confidence that recent trends are unusual and human - induced.

Because greenhouse gases are increasing rapidly — to levels not seen in all of human history, any such «mega-drought» today would be even worse, scientists say.

The Guardian: On 10 May 2013, the concentration of climate - warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed the milestone level of 400 parts per million for the first time in human history.

Human beings have a wonderful history of adaptation to climatic changes and I have absolutely no doubt that we will continue to do so — whatever happens, However, with our current levels of investment in data collection and analysis, I feel it is about time we were able to make some kind of plans for what to expect in the future and begin to pre-adapt.

Not coincidentally, the level of carbon dioxide in the air, as of early January, was about 400 parts per million, which is the highest in all of human history.

However, Earth's history reveals sea level changes of as much as a few meters per century, even though the natural climate forcings changed much more slowly than the present human - made forcing.

Scientists caution that even though the world is warming over time, with the amount of heat - trapping greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere now unsettlingly ensconced at the highest level in human history, every year is not expected to set a new record.

88) Whilst CO2 levels have indeed changed for various reasons, human and otherwise, just as they have throughout history, the CO2 content of the atmosphere has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and the growth rate has now been constant for the past 25 years.

Carbon dioxide is the biggest long - term human - generated contributor to global warming — other molecules like methane and water vapor are also greenhouse gases, but their levels are more or less constant; the amount of anthropogenic CO2 has been going up steadily for decades and is higher now than in any point in human history.

For most of human history, since we first started building little lean - to's, sticking some seeds in the ground and tossing a few meat scraps to the wolf pup outside the fire light, CO2 levels have been at around those PI levels, and temperature have only fluctuated by small amounts apart from short term perturbations like the Little Ice Age.

Low solar activity has been connected with cold periods in human history, while high levels of solar activity have been connected with warming periods, like the recent one from the 1950s to 1998.

Carbon dioxide levels for most of human history oscillated at around 280 parts per million.

Researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they looked at the history of sea level and storm surges from the year 1800 to 2300, and then simulated the pattern of events in a world in which humans abandoned the vows made in Paris in 2015 and went on burning fossil fuels under the notorious «business as usual» scenario.

Many scientists argue that once CO2 concentrations reach 450 ppm it will be difficult to prevent global average temperatures from rising more than 2 °C above their level for most of human history.

This is the highest level of atmospheric CO2 in human history, and in fact the highest level for at least 800,000 years.

A very tiny percentage of human beings have «enjoyed» that profligately wasteful, inefficient and downright stupid level of energy consumption for a tiny fraction of human history.

Air bubbles trapped in the ice and chemical clues about atmospheric carbon levels in corals have shown that there is now more carbon dioxide in the air than at any other point in the history of human civilization.

Another clue is that the candidate has a history that includes at least one successful stint in a job with a high level of human interaction, such as a retail clerk, a school teacher, a receptionist or a bank teller.