Sentences with phrase «matters of human concern»

These functions in turn include a variety of activities — reading, writing, computing, memorizing — that purport to advance disciplined thinking about important matters of human concern.

Not exact matches

Overhauling the human resources department is a matter of high priority and it will be done to enhance relationships with drivers and garner feedback from concerned employees.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

But if we put that matter aside, and if our main interest lies in protecting the lives of our people, why do the mavens on national security show no concern for the 1.2 million innocent human lives taken each year in abortion?

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.

However, when it comes to Man, the principle of intelligibility that integrates, actualises, orientates and is the driving force of human nature as a going concern in the universe has to be of a different order from matter.

In all matters of belief concerning the Last Day and the Other World, the human mind is subject to the definite Quranic texts and the sayings of the Apostle.

Or is the human race an infallible one so that any idea can be, move over should be, taken on faith of its truth no matter the reality of things and then acted on without concern of the real truth which was «WILLFULLY» overlooked?

Practitioners of disciplines that pride themselves on their objectivity and neutrality sometimes make pronouncements on matters of ultimate human concern, but when they do so they invariably introduce assumptions not warranted by their purely empirical or purely rational methods.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

The Latin word religio meant devotion or commitment, «a conscientious concern for what really matters»; the English word «religion», while often implying a sense of the sacred, originally referred to the human attitude of devotion.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

But not so when one is attempting to address matters that concern deep human consciousness of God; for one needs to exercise utmost caution and rigor in speaking as accurately as humanly possible.

Furthermore, theological affirmations regarding the divinely appointed vocation of each individual coincide with concern for the civil and human rights of each person born into the world, no matter how conceived.

However, such a tangible measure, borne of respect for human dignity and concern for the public good, would help greatly in stimulating the American conscience on a matter that presently struggles to hold its attention.

In arguing against the possibility of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so, by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some view as to the way things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that context.

What is so needed today is civility in discourse concerning matters of politics, education, human relationships and religion to name but a few areas of life!

Strauss says that the real concern of the philosopher is eternity or not ephemeral human lives, and physicists at least typically have relied on impersonal laws of nature characteristic of matter that's neither created nor destroyed.

We are urged to believe various doctrines concerning the incarnation, the atonement, and the resurrection of Christ for which philosophical evidence or argument is quite inadequate, on the grounds that in these religious matters human knowledge can never suffice.

Groups concerned, as Morgan put it, with «maximizing the provision of human services by the state (especially in education) and confining private sector institutions (especially the churches) to wholly private matters» gained in power and influence.

Such notions have little or nothing to do with love; they are a matter of human justice which may be a mode of love's expression in certain situations but they are also very misleading because love is ultimately not concerned with «justice» in the vulgar sense — it is above justice, whose interest is either retributive or distributive, for the interest of love is with persons, persons in society with their fellows, and the fulfillment of selves in the giving - and - receiving which is mutuality or union.

Ayala goes on to argue that «science and religious beliefs need not be in contradiction because science and religion concern different matters», respectively «the composition of matter» etc, and «the meaning and purpose of human life» etc..

Whether formulated by Durkheim (a system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things), by Weber (that which finally makes events meaningful), or by Tillich (whatever is of ultimate concern) religion in its «classical» sense refers not so much to labels on a church building as to the imagery (myth, theology, and so forth) by which people make sense of their lives — their «moral architecture,» if you will.6 That human beings differ in their sensitivity to and success in this matter of «establishing meaning» there can be no doubt.

He was concerned about the rampant injustice of his time, although he put the matter off with the reflection that nothing could be done, for the total of human misery was a constant quantity.

«the care and dedication of individual teachers»...» the loving approach of the teachers»...» the personal attention my child receives in the classroom»...» the depth in teaching the developing human being»... «that the teachers and staff are well - acquainted with my child and every concern I've had about my child has been met with the staff's full attention, concern, and capability to professionally address the matter at hand»... «how the teachers «hold» each child and class»...» mindfulness toward the children's needs»... «love that the teacher stays with the child through 8th grade»

The impossibility of comparison may exist in some cases, but incommensurability fails to justify the ethics behind the ranking of values in policy matters; without compromise, the valuation of equal human welfare ought to be the chief concern in politics.

Our results also raise questions concerning the aging of other animals affected by urbanisation, and humans for that matter,» says Pablo Salmón.

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

It would be a great disservice to the appreciation of the human / companion animal bond if we did not appreciate the concerns of the client — no matter how minor they may appear.

Or, alternatively, they can look at a photographic database of disfigured war veterans and copy from there, assuming they're not concerned with matters like «ethics» or «basic human decency.»

Perhaps it's the protective, self - preservationist impulse extending from one racialized creative to another that prompts concerns of limitation with self - identification, but Alsharif's modes of direction deftly precipitate the necessity of her insistence, and then collapse these concerns altogether as it becomes clear that her work speaks far beyond borders and barriers: from the vantage point of one particular socio - political locus, she excavates wider, apparently enduring truths of human relations and leaves us somewhere else altogether, making sense of the nebulous matter in between.

Mueck's subject matter — for all its universality — is deeply private, concerning the unspoken thoughts and feelings of all human beings.»

Informed by a broad range of subject matter from anthropological studies of pre-language mark making by humans, 20th century art history, and Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic theory of object relation, Black's central concern is to immerse herself in the seemingly inexplicable compulsion to make art.

We won't get any good songs on matters of consequence as concerns the protection of this planet; not until the majority of the people can all say for certain that that the human species is indeed about to come to its senses, a wind of change is blowing across the globe, and people of all races, nations, and ages are, as a matter of actual fact, geared up for a fundamental change of attitude.

No matter, he's too busy worrying about the lack of trees to be too concerned by human beings and their tacky reuse of roadkill.

The «paper» she refers to is her December 3, 2004 Science journal paper concerning a 100 % consensus of scientific papers over the matter of human - induced global warming.

Extreme events are a key manifestation of complex systems, in both the natural and human world.Their economic and social consequences are a matter of enormous concern.

Because there is a real difference between environmental concern — where consequences matter — and environmentalism — where signalling adherence to the appropriate markers of concern (based on human action being presumptively destructive) matter.

Similarly for just about any discipline concerned with human convention, including law, aesthetics, etc., which is to say: consensus matters in most areas of human culture!

But we're in danger of forgetting that it concerns a deadly serious matter: a change in the climatic conditions which have made human civilisation and the current human population possible, and, specifically, the degradation of the most wonderful and beautiful of the world's ecosystems into desert and scrubby grassland.

You have established yourself as a populist scribe on matters concerning the environment, especially in the area of human - induced global warming.

The judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal to the effect that the Canadian Human Rights Act «is not sufficiently comprehensive to include the effect of indirect discrimination» i.e. «discrimination in which there is neither discriminatory intention or motivation or differential treatment», is a matter of grave concern to COPOH.

The judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal to the effect that the Canadian Human Rights Act «is not sufficiently comprehensive to include the effect of indirect discrimination» i.e. «discrimination in which there is neither discriminatory intention or motivation or differential treatment», is a matter of grave concern to the Association.

73 Although the SBC, which is the basic legislation in the matter, states in Article 12 (4) thereof, that the aim of such surveillance is to apprehend individuals crossing the border illegally, it does not contain any rules concerning the measures which border guards are authorised to apply against persons or ships when they are apprehended and subsequently — such as the application of enforcement measures, the use of force or conducting the persons apprehended to a specific location — or even measures against persons implicated in human trafficking.

«Whenever a student puts a human rights - related concern in a letter of appeal, the faculty has told us that they do not have the jurisdiction to consider human rights - related matters, which is a huge problem,» Gervais tells Legal Feeds.

The Centre for Equity and Human Rights, a service provided by the university's student federation that handles human rights matters, has raised concerns about the common law section's handling of student accommodation in a recent reHuman Rights, a service provided by the university's student federation that handles human rights matters, has raised concerns about the common law section's handling of student accommodation in a recent rehuman rights matters, has raised concerns about the common law section's handling of student accommodation in a recent report.

The explicit concern of the CCD is that, in increasing de jure access to human rights remedies in civil court actions, the decision in this case may have the consequence of sending a message that a civil action in court can fulfill the same role as an administrative action under the existing statutory schemes, and that de facto financial barriers to access do not matter.

There was a less common concern also raised which was that the requirement had the effect, or could be seen to have the effect, of adversely affecting proper client representation in matters involving human rights or harassment issues.

Because we have concluded that zombies would be properly categorized as both dangerous wild animals and, at the same time, animated human remains, the law would likely seek to apply the rules and regulations concerning both quite different matters in a single hybridized set of doctrines and reject the simple categorization of zombies as mere chattels.

They wrote: «The provisions of the AHR Act concerning controlled activities, namely those involving assistance for human reproduction and related research activities, do not fall under the criminal law power, but belong to the jurisdiction of the provinces over hospitals, civil rights and local matters.»