Sentences with phrase «mere human activity»

Such an awareness does not deny a telos to the history of life, but it does remove its fulfillment from the realm of mere human activity, whether economic, political, or otherwise.

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Human intellectual and imaginative activities, Mill claims, are intrinsically superior to mere sensual pleasure — «It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied» (UHuman intellectual and imaginative activities, Mill claims, are intrinsically superior to mere sensual pleasure — «It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied» (Uhuman dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied» (U 14).

Howard Koch of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), dismisses as a mere «notion» the overwhelming scientific evidence that human activity is changing the climate (12 July, p 27).

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

Even though the scenery paintings date back to the ancient Greeks and the Romans, after the fall of the Roman Empire nature scenes became just a backdrop for religious stories or a mere setting for human activity.

Estimating that it costs $ 100 per tonne to produce the biocoal and permanently sequester the stuff in abandoned mines or carbon landfills, a mere one trillion dollars per year suffices for the 8.5 GtC being produced by human activities recently.

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

Besides the (sketchy at best) fact that we contribute a mere 15 ppm CO2 into the atmosphere, we know that the earth IS getting much warmer and an increasingly faster rate, so even if it is only 15ppm attributed to human activity it is still having adverse effects on our planet and can not be ignored.

In the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods, Salas explores the issue of team - building as a phenomenon that extends beyond mere activity or play.