Sentences with phrase «matter of human choice»

Climate sensitivity is a natural property of the climate system, but fossil fuel use is a matter of human choice.

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Both of these forms of Counter-Reformation Catholicism think of the moral life as primarily engaging the will, whereas Evangelical Catholicism understands the moral life to be a matter of training minds and hearts, the reason and the will, to make those choices that truly contribute to goodness, human flourishing, and the beatitude that enables the friends of Jesus to live forever within the light and love of the Most Holy Trinity.

«It» has an impact, but its impact is deterministic, it had no «choice» in the matter, it was just executing along determistically (Determinism is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.

4 I use the term «matter of preference» to mean a situation of human choice in which there is finally no rational basis for an ethical distinction between the alternatives.

Sociologists of religion like Max Weber and Émile Durkheim have observed that being religious in this broad sense refers not to a matter of personal choice but to a fundamental human drive to make sense out of reality.

What is more perverse then using human - created mythology to discriminate against a group of people who had no choice in the matter?

This author tries to depict «God» as someone who needs to be understood, again Christians (or religious people in general for that matter) trying to find any way possible to connect other humans with their deity of choice.

It would be impossible to give men freedom of choice when the social organization has become so sensitive and delicate that every choice, even the most commonplace, is liable to react on the community, and every opinion or feeling Is treated as a serious matter because it may affect the Individual's productivity or social adjustment, or his human and public relations.»

Now it is a matter of how much choice one has, and the development of the human potential of people in what is for them a post-scarcity society.

Our technology makes pregnancy more and more a matter of human decision; more and more our choices are influencing the weal and woe of the animals on this earth.

They found that highly introspective people — those who were more confident after making their choices — had a larger amount of grey matter in the right anterior prefrontal cortex, an area that shows marked development in humans (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1191883).

Dark Matter, a mix of speculative fiction and thriller, tells the story of brilliant physicist Jason Dessen, in «a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind - bendingly strange and profoundly human — a relentlessly surprising science - fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.»

Dogs are very much like humans some will enjoy and thrive on some food and others will not - so even after selecting a healthy choice dog food it is often a matter of try and see how it goes.

Detroit: Become Human tries to make every decision matter, yet when glancing upon a tree of branching choices in the pause menu, it's clear many scenarios have only a single conclusion.

Legs are the subject matter of choice of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history of painting through a mixture of figurative and geometric elements rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning of the visual forms depicted in her work.

Anyone who thinks people are a good thing rather than a menace, and who believes humans can find solutions to our problems if we put our minds to it, should reject the population - control argument and make the case for full freedom of choice on reproductive matters.

Thus it can be seen that, from a human rights perspective and based on international law, corporate responsibility in relation to such activities is not a matter of choice, but an imperative.

NAWL and its local caucuses have lobbied on such matters as human rights, family law, tax law, pornography, reproductive choice, the sexual assault provisions in the Criminal Code and equality provisions under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.