Sentences with phrase «liberty of human»

Any totalitarian program for the state was declared to be hostile to the liberty of the church and, what is more, hostile to the liberty of human personality.

But we require a fresh understanding of what truth is and how it is related to the liberty of the human agent.

In truth, however, like Aquinas, Kant could have had it both ways, postulating a divine perceptor who would not displace but rather sustain, enlarge, and explain the liberty of the human self.

Liberals generally are for the killing of babies and other horendous ideas that war against the sanctity and liberty of human beings... Giving men with this kind of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think God desires.

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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.

OPEN Festival is a regional festival dedicated to the promotion of ideas of liberty and human rights.

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In «A Tale of Two Popes» and «Papal Eco-Hysteria», we have contrasted Francis and John Paul II and quoted from the latter's seminal encyclical «Centesimus Annus», which probably contains the most clear - headed thinking on human liberty and economics that has ever emerged from the Vatican.

Bold and convincing, Adams has reminded me of the grand ideals that this nation was founded on — liberty, justice, and human flourishing.

The Secretary of State should rally corporate America and multinational companies to consider religious liberty along with other human rights concerns when companies decide where to invest.

But do we recognize that this Light is that of the Word made flesh, of God made man, that is, of a divinity that does not crush the human, but assumes it in all its liberty and weakness?

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

There are a number of organisations that specialise in promoting human rights and religious liberty, three of whom contribute to this column inChristianity:

Let us not underestimate the role of the international human rights project in training a spotlight on the appalling violations of human life, liberty, and dignity that occur every day in many parts of the world.

But we have dramatically reduced poverty, shown ways to build institutions that respect human rights and liberties, virtually eliminated famines, found ways to prevent and remedy diseases, dramatically increased the longevity of people everywhere, and come to include more and more persons in the «circle of exchange.»

To other Bloomington residents, the sexual preference amendment signaled a victory for human justice and civil liberties in keeping with the spirit of American democracy.

This «moral reading» of the Constitution calls on judges to act as moral philosophers: «equal protection of the laws» should mean what best promotes «equal concern and respect» for all humans; «liberty» in the «due process» clause should mean autonomy in matters important to personal development, and so forth.

God» not government» is the only sure guarantee of human rights and the blessings of our liberty.

Since political principles identify the proper relations between humans, and since these relations are not constitutive of happiness, freedom has meant the absence of authority or coercion, i.e., the liberty to pursue happiness without human interference.

It translates Christianity's revolutionary egalitarianism into «the doctrines of liberty, fraternity and human rights».

In 1992, in the Casey opinion which confirmed America's unlimited abortion licence, Kennedy wrote that «at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life»....

It describes a duty of society to retreat and give its members space to act on what they deem essential; an acknowledgment not of a human liberty or right, but of a human obligation that precedes the social obligation and so shapes it.

«By its liberty, the human person transcends the stars and all the world of nature,» Jacques Maritain once wrote.

In both Lev 25:44 - 46 and antebellum chattel slavery, the principle immorality is the reduction of a human being to mere property and the corresponding deprivation of liberty.

If we win the political struggle, we will not even know what we want unless we have a new vision of man, a new sense of human possibility, and a new conception of the ordering of liberty, the constitution of freedom.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.14

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

Even Lewis Hanke, twentieth - century doyen of Latin American studies, made the sermon into a Bolivarian grito de libertad, «the first cry on behalf of human liberty in the New World.»

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery (Gal 5:1): Sin is a weakening of liberty, not an expression of human freedom.

It will insist that any version of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace, human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host of other social challenges is not a version of faith worth the time of either pulpit or pew.

There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all human affairs.

Though both the conception of human liberty and the virtues necessary to its true exercise sprang from biblical teachings, the framers were careful not to endow biblical religion, or any religion, with state power.

Justice involves the promotion of economic equity, political participation, and personal liberties among and between humans.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

Consequently, the world that was meant to be a great human family «with liberty and justice for all» is the scene not only of injustice, tyranny, and heartache, but of bitter strife that may engulf us all.

Because the individual human subject» Leff's godlet» is the modernist starting point, it seems reasonable to place a heavy burden of justification upon anyone who seeks to restrain the liberty of that subject.

The American novus ordo, with its revolutionary form of social life — the voluntary association — demonstrates that ordered liberty and human rights are products of social arrangements that give primacy to both persons and communities.

In the forthcoming Victories of Reason he will go even further, contending that the most significant advances in knowledge, liberty, human rights and material well - being — what we like to call progress — stem not from Greece or the Enlightenment or modernity but from Christianity itself.

Alone among the religions of the world, Judaism and Christianity place so high a valuation upon religious liberty because of their own doctrine that the relation God seeks with humans is friendship.

So high is this God's valuation of human liberty of conscience that, even though He has launched a divinely commissioned religion in history (in two Covenants, Jewish and Christian), He would not have either of these religions imposed by force on anyone.

Only the Jewish and Christian God made human beings free, halts the power of Caesar at the boundaries of the human soul, and has commissioned human beings to build civilizations worthy of the liberty He has endowed in them.

This is not to say that we can not come to impassioned, principled positions about how to vote, particularly when dealing with issues as important as sexual assault, bigotry, racism, responsible foreign policy, religious liberty, and the dignity of human life at every stage in its development.

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.

These two revolutions in the understanding of human nature and society constitute «liberalism» inasmuch as they introduce a radically new definition of «liberty.»

If I am right, however, a reconsideration of liberalism's two main commitments will not compromise but instead be the preconditions for securing equal human dignity and ordered liberty.

Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and its insistence on the human separation from and opposition to nature — created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the human sphere of autonomous activity in the service of the fulfillment of the self.

Anarchy and license are not the kind of liberty in which human life is fulfilled.

Croce appropriately called history «the story of liberty,» thus intimating that freedom is the clue to the whole course of human existence.