Sentences with phrase «means treating people»

In my opinion, being a Christian means treating people the way that you would like to be treated.

Insult means treating a person with disrespect, indignity, rudeness and bad words.

This means I treat people who have alcohol abuse, drug abuse substance abuse disorders along with issues like anxiety, depression etc..

Not exact matches

If you're like most people, you treat them deferentially, meaning you show respect.

«It doesn't mean there [are] less skilled workers, it means they are able to focus and we're able to treat more people... we're able to serve more of mankind with the skills that we have.»

Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I'm a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly.

That means getting all the accoutrements such as professional business cards, a business phone and a business email address, and treating people in a professional, courteous manner.

The fact that many people have intelligently reflected on this verse and different conclusions come to about its meaning demands that where there are differences in understanding that come from its reading, that they be treated with the utomost intellectual respect.

All people must be treated equal — that means all accomplishments as well as all failures of a people must be acknowledged.

From this heavily fortified definitional base George and Bradley reason that sexual acts of the reproductive type typically further the good of marriage, and persons (whether married or not) who engage in sexual acts of the nonreproductive type «necessarily treat their bodies and those of their sexual partners (if any) as means or instruments in ways that damage their personal (and interpersonal) integrity.»

Kant's second form of the categorical imperative states that we should always treat persons as ends in themselves never merely as means to our ends.

a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance Seems like I did know the meaning.

It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were human beings (a biological category); b) all humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.

I've wept as close friends slowly distanced themselves from me and well - meaning church people treated me like a project — someone to pray about, gossip about, and fix.

By all means, treat and respect these people are artists, but don't make them into gods — because we crucify our gods.

In nations where law does not rule and persons are treated as means or obstacles, capitalism withers.)

«The Saviour, of course,» says one, «does not mean that he who desires to follow Him must hate his parents... but... if loyalty to Him clashes with loyalty to them he is to treat his loved ones in this connection as though they are persons whom he hates.»

Isn't it interesting — people take a stance that we are to treat those in the church one way and those without another way (in terms of being mean), when Jesus said, «love your enemies» (Matt.

The categorical imperative to «treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.

On Apel's account, these rights articulate the valid meaning that can be given to the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative: «So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46).

Secularism means using evidence to make sure that all people are being treated equally.

My fellow gun - owners all agree that there should be a national database for those mentally ill people that are currently undergoing any kind of treatment, including the use of any pharmaceuticals as a means to treat depression, psychosis, etc..

Kant's categorical imperatives, «Act always on such a maxim as thou canst at the same time will to be a universal law» and «So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only,» are actually in one sense imposed from without.

It's funny how believing a specific behavior is wrong means you're «hateful» — no matter how you actually treat the people you believe are acting immorally.

Thus there is very little disagreement with Kant's famous dictum: «So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means only.»

Philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that it is always wrong to treat a person or a people purely as a means to an end.

However, regardless of whether «holistic medicine» means to you the broader movement or the questionable fringe, the fact is that it has helped re-establish what many folks never forgot: that if we limit our attention to the strictly physical aspects of a person's health, we limit our ability to adequately treat many physical conditions.

Perhaps if you opened your eyes, and looked beyond bigoted people you'd see religions for what they are meant to be... rules and lessons on how to treat your fellow man.

This reminds me of Kant's idea that «people should be treated as ends in themselves rather than a means to an end» — the basis of his ideas of personhood, dignity and human rights.

That means abandoning one - size - fits - all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained.

The sophisms of the substantiality of the «I» even today retain a particular luster, along with the Nietzschean and Freudian critiques of the subject; it is not without importance to find the root and philosophical meaning of them in the Kantian dialectic; this latter has condemned in advance any claim to dogmatize on personal existence and knowledge of the person; the person is manifested only in the practical act of treating it as an end and not merely as a means.

It finds crucial meaning in this world, for example in how one treats other people.

To stop at the abrupt particulars, he thought, to treat particular persons or particular groups as though they could exist apart from community, let alone mean anything, was «the mad, the insane thing to do» (AE 194).

By that I mean that the common habit of treating robots as people — however much it seems like a joke or a shorthand or a metaphor — could erode our already diminished sense of the human person as uniquely special.

Unfortunately, this new found freedom thus far has resulted in people being treated as means rather than as ends.

«Unless you mean that when you meet someone from a culture you have heard dangerous things about you should treat them differently until they prove they are worthy of trust... and which I think is really impossible to do and be fair for a majority of people...»

What «quality of life» really means and what a person would agree to in a political situation where one can have little trust that one will be fairly treated are of course open questions.

If I were a gay person, I would want to be treated «well», but I don't believe that means everyone has to agree with me.

This means that the other, at least in the enaction of the sexual act, tends to be reduced to being a means of sensual satisfaction, and not treated as a person and spouse.

Of course we wish to treat people with compassion and encouragement, even when they are in objectively sinful or irregular states of life, but this does not mean that we can blithely set aside the law of God and change the Lord's own doctrine on marriage.

Some of these stories involved well - meaning people who nevertheless tripped up in treating women with equality and respect, while others were clearly just jerks, through and through.

Her concern is, that in their desire for making converts, people on short - term missions often treat local people merely as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves.

Are we doing something for a person, or are we doing something to that person to treat him or her as a mere means for the good of others?

What gives the individual their dignity is some je ne sais quoi which relies on something transcendent and means that a person can not be manipulated, treated as an object.

This means that the elderly and persons with disabilities must be treated with special care and sensitivity.

Another issue I have with all this is that even if someone is gay what affect does that have on your own personal life, it has nothing to do with you, just because you don't believe in it or don't accept it doesn't mean you can treat gay people wrongly (that's a sin also) they're not animals they are human beings..

«This misguided policy of treating hemp like it's some kind of perilous threat to the American people is a mistake, and it means that hemp products that are lining up on store shelves across America simply will not be American made.»

I could not believe how close minded some people could be and treat another human being so cruel and mean.

Suppose I'll have to add it to my ever growing to bake list - how's a girl meant to cook for her own blog when people like you are tempting me with these sweet treats!

It doesn't take into account the many additional treats (including at least three more cupcakes, Oreos, Rice Krispie treats, Doritos, and I'm not sure what else) obtained at after - hours school events, birthday and hockey parties, and from well - meaning people in his life.