Sentences with phrase «life at the human level»

Perhaps to a greater degree than we care to admit, the principle of the relation between order and in - equality may function in the organization of life at the human level.

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Perhaps John of Salisbury would remind us today that the only laws in conformity with equity are those that protect the sacredness of human life and reject the licitness of abortion, euthanasia and bold genetic experimentation, those laws that respect the dignity of marriage between a man and a woman, that are inspired by a correct secularism of the State, a secularism that always entails the safeguard of religious freedom and that pursues subsidiarity and solidarity at both the national and the international level.

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.

So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.

What it means is a resident of Hammarby Sjostad is able to live, more or less, at a level calculated to be sustainable for all of the world's 6 billion humans — as compared with the American lifestyle, which would require five additional earths if it were extended across all humanity.

The indeterminacy that science has found at the levels of matter (uncertainty), life (chance mutations), and human existence (freedom) are essential cosmological ingredients if the autonomy of the world is not to collapse into the being of the Creator - God (in which case it would no longer be a world distinct unto itself).

«Everything - in - God» tells us that God is not so exalted that he becomes meaningless to human life, but rather is operative in the whole creation at every level, moving through it, working upon it, accomplishing the divine goodwill in it.

consciousness is present in all matter, just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the big bang, only its level of existence varies with evolution, highest is that of living things, at the top is us humans because of the biological nature of our existence we evolve fastest and our brains has attained the highest level of complexity

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

t its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

More human beings are alive today on Planet Earth than the total until 1900, and most of them are living at a level that we can only call sub-human.

The original UM document called one body of mainline Protestants to affirm at the most basic level that all forms of human life are worth incalculably more than their industrial, market, scientific or even therapeutic use value.

The absence of strict determinism that recent physics has discovered at the most basic levels of matter, the chance mutations that biology finds at the level of life's evolution, and the freedom that comes forth with human existence — all of these are the expected features of any world we might claim to be distinct from the being of its creator.

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.

For Hartshorne the ability to think rationally, on at least an elementary level, is a milestone in human life.

Thus, there is the entropy at the atomic and molecular levels in the form of the loss of physical energy; then there is entropy in the form of the extinction of life at the biological level; next, there is the entropy appropriate for the level of human life, namely, human death.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

The other Commandments, at least until Jesus reinterpreted them in the Sermon on the Mount, focus on the external level of human life somewhat like a photograph.

To send a minister forth from seminary without his having confronted himself and human need at a deep level is to graduate him without the very insights which can allow him to make his message relevant to live human beings.

At this level, Whitehead writes, «human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.»

Actually is it not true that though we do know ourselves helpless to do God's perfect will, helpless to resist successfully the temptations to pride and selfishness which assail us in every area of our life and at every level of moral endeavor, we nevertheless know that we are guilty before God and that we should be guilty even if we should make the maximum effort of which human flesh is capable?

If God is really actively engaged with and in the world, adapting the divine intention to it, taking into the divine life what occurs there, and hence seriously affected by it quite as much as sustaining it creatively and working within it to accomplish an enduring purpose, then indeed God must be understood in a fashion that is most suitably symbolized by what we know of relationship at the human level — granted, of course, that we say this with an O altitudo, to use Sir Thomas Browne's phrase.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

For Dewey, of course, democracy was a «way of life» not merely a way of public life — an ideal that «must affect all modes of human association» — and he would not have accepted Rorty's contention that «there is no way to bring self - creation together with justice at the level of theory» for that would have required him to give up a principal article of democratic faith.

To this basic covenantal relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers on a fairly equalitarian level and with a strong democratic sense of personal right.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle EasAt its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle Easat some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

The two schools of philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter, exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman PalestinAt its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestinat some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.

«The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human — at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life - systems, in a time - developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience... The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.»

Although arduous to collect, these data represent the first report in living humans of scalp - delivered tDCS voltage measurements across DBS electrodes at the subcortical level.

Not only can these social scientists correctly arrange all 206 bones that make up an adult human skeleton, they can also determine facts about peoples» lives — age at death, sex, stature, nutritional deficiencies, levels of work stress, exposure to infectious disease and traumas — from a careful examination of the bones.

of Public Health, Midland, MI and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, School of Human Medicine, «Our study group consists of premature infants with birthweights at the lowest level that is compatible with life.

«We've been able to look at how newly discovered genetic risks relate to the life course of asthma at an unprecedented level of resolution,» said Daniel Belsky, a postdoctoral fellow at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy and the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.

«Our research provides the first direct evidence that exposure to BPA during development, at the levels we see in our day - to - day lives, increases the risk for prostate cancer in human prostate tissue,» Prins said.

Such adaptation at the molecular level is seen in most primitive forms of life and has been evolutionarily conserved all the way up to humans, he adds.

It lives permanently in the human body at the very deepest level: inside our DNA.

«The compounds show up in low levels — parts per billion or parts per trillion — but aquatic life and humans aren't exposed to just one at a time, but a whole mix,» said Antonette Arvai, physical scientist at the International Joint Commission and the lead author of the study.

The next step, he says, is to take the research to the human level, specifically looking at the effect of pregnancy at high altitude — where there's less oxygen in every womb — and heart conditions later in life.

So in this issue Hanson follows that through to a conclusion coming up with tiny insect - like robots with greater than human level intelligence living by the billions in skyscrapers and sort of doing their virtual work at the equivalent of pennies per day and what this leads to, there are two different ideas about what this kind of economic runaway advancement would ultimately lead to.

The Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases (PI4D) along with the Center for Integrative Neuroscience were two «pillars» selected to amplify Purdue's existing strengths and initiatives in order to enable research at the highest level and with the greatest impact on human lives.

Study of uptake and loss of silica nanoparticles in living human lung epithelial cells at single cell level.

LA JOLLA — In their powerful new road map for greater health throughout our lives, Salk President and Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn and health psychologist Elissa Epel explain an important aspect of the aging process in humans at a fundamental level.

The average elimination rate (clearance) of caffeine from the human body in adults is 155 mg / kg body weight / hour; in newborns it is ~ 30 mg / kg / h; it may reach adult levels at about 4th month of life [25,26].

«They know that the notion of getting established in life is being lost, that nothing is gained at the professional level, and that therefore it is better to base relationships on the human qualities of their partner, rather than on his or her financial stability,» said Sabrina Philippe, a psychologist and consultant at eDarling.

Where the best CPA Review courses deliver well - beyond newsworthy subject matter, is its astute exploration of the human spirit, not as a predictable or maudlin «man triumphs over tough odds» story but in the gripping push and pull of those at every level of the economic ladder trying to reconnect with the things that matter most in life.

It shall serve humanity addressing its problems and concerns at each and every level of human life.

This shift has been stimulated by a combination of influences, including greater demand by families at all economic levels, increased public understanding of the importance of early learning, greater support for investment in programs for low income children as a matter of equity, and growing concern about the threat of economic globalization and the need to enhance the nation's human capital by building a strong foundation early in life

The Declaration of Human Rights, the convention on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Peoples, (as well as conventions such as the right to live in peace, the right to development, right to self determination - and the right to free, previous, informed to proceed to any consent.Agenda 21 in all its aspects, must be at the center of quality education for sustainable practices at the personal as well as collective levels.

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website