Sentences with phrase «merely as means»

Kant's ethics, after all, are partly based on the idea that a being who can think logically (and therefor linguistically) should not be treated merely as a means to an end.

How have artists used the portrait not merely as a means of picturing human subjects, but also as an active and mutable space for identity formation and performance?

Blogging should be more of a Kantian idea — not using someone merely as a means to an end — than the common idea, which is so often put into practice, that the authour of the blog is a sort of corporation bent on making money off you.

Unfortunately, those original Hatha Yoga teachings are now often presented merely as a means of physical exercise and health promotion, with the spiritual aspects of the practice devalued or removed altogether.

Funding agencies can have a major impact if they instruct reviewers to consider postdoctoral fellows not merely as a means to achieving the knowledge objectives of the proposal but also as young professionals whose development has a wider impact on national capacity.

American liberalism, on the other hand, because it emerged partly from Progressivism, tends to take a more utilitarian perspective on such things, viewing autonomy merely as a means to an end, the end being increasing the happiness of as many people as possible.

A way of framing Kant's categorical imperative is to insist that human agents, as makers of ends, can not be construed merely as means to another's ends, but must be accorded dignity.

place the highest value on the end result — marriage — and as a result they wind up using the other person merely as a means to get it.

Babies made by reproductive technology must be treated as ends in themselves and not merely as means for fulfilling social or parental values.

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.

Religion is used merely as a means of control to subdue masses.

The first ethical principle is that we should treat subjects as ends in themselves and not merely as means to our own ends.

They should not be treated merely as means but as ends in themselves.

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.

And perhaps if more couples did see marriage worthwhile in and of itself, not merely as a means of bringing a family (children) into the world, we would see stronger marriages.

The principle that the individual is to be treated as an end, and never merely as a means to some other end, can not possibly rule the life of any society.

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 creature composed entirely of wants, who understands the world merely as the means of satisfying those wants and whose satisfactions generate new wants endlessly, is a creature of unavoidable anxieties.

It can involve a loaded down cycle, ready to camp in all climates, or can serve merely as a mean of transportation to get you from one beautiful B&B to the next.

Not exact matches

And when things go wrong between co-founders, as with most things in life, a little planning up front can mean the difference between a catastrophic vs. merely painful outcome.»

The main reason for this is that the euro is merely a means to a much more coveted end — political union, as Germany's Finance Minister glibly admitted in a 2011 interview with Welt am Sontag:

This means that a Canadian company with a subsidiary in Bermuda, for example, can bring back foreign profit tax - free in the form of a dividend — provided the subsidiary is carrying out active business, such as sales or manufacturing, and is not merely a P.O. box.

The European Court of Justice is expected to rule this year in a major case centered on whether Uber should be treated as a taxi service, which would mean it was subject to rigorous safety and employment rules, or merely as an online platform connecting independent drivers and waiting passengers.

But the Bitcoin network's inefficiencies mean nobody is using it as a means of payment, merely speculating on its price.

Nor does she mean by «selfishness» caring for oneself at the expense of others but merely a concern for oneself that, far from precluding helping others, could necessitate dying for a high - enough value, such as one's country or spouse.

That may mean rejecting the medieval world» the «Dark Ages»» or embracing the medieval world as if that were our most recent Eden, nominalism poisoned our intellectual life, whether one takes himself to be of the left or right, insofar as one justifies order merely in terms of history or these mechanisms collectively referred to as «nature.»

Apparently many people view work as merely a means to an end.

As their interest and care centered increasingly on man's inner life, on spiritual quality and ethical devotion, as the stronger emotions ceased being merely anger or grief and became also penitence, aspiration, moral idealism, and the love of God, the word ruach expanded its meanings to cover the casAs their interest and care centered increasingly on man's inner life, on spiritual quality and ethical devotion, as the stronger emotions ceased being merely anger or grief and became also penitence, aspiration, moral idealism, and the love of God, the word ruach expanded its meanings to cover the casas the stronger emotions ceased being merely anger or grief and became also penitence, aspiration, moral idealism, and the love of God, the word ruach expanded its meanings to cover the case.

As the full meaning of this sacrifice or self - negation dawns in consciousness, the factuality and historicity of Jesus» particular «self - existence» is negated as that existence now becomes universal self - consciousness: «The death of the mediator is death not merely of his natural aspect, of his particular self - existence: what dies is not merely the outer casement, which, being stripped of essential being, is eo ipso dead, but also the abstraction of the divine Being.&raquAs the full meaning of this sacrifice or self - negation dawns in consciousness, the factuality and historicity of Jesus» particular «self - existence» is negated as that existence now becomes universal self - consciousness: «The death of the mediator is death not merely of his natural aspect, of his particular self - existence: what dies is not merely the outer casement, which, being stripped of essential being, is eo ipso dead, but also the abstraction of the divine Being.&raquas that existence now becomes universal self - consciousness: «The death of the mediator is death not merely of his natural aspect, of his particular self - existence: what dies is not merely the outer casement, which, being stripped of essential being, is eo ipso dead, but also the abstraction of the divine Being.»

It must in all this discussion be understood that certain doubtful or trivial meanings of «perfect» or «unsurpassable» are excluded (merely to save time and energy), such as that a squirrel is perfect if it has all that is demanded by the concept (whose concept?)

Yet Gallagher and Cannon go too far when they dismiss attempts to influence society by nonpolitical means as merely lost opportunities for electoral gain.

Dogmas, creeds, and doctrines, as well as structures, hierarchies and authorities, are merely the ways and means whereby the faithful can articulate and organize their belief.

If we live the Holy Saturday of our existence properly, this will not be a merely ideological addition to this common life as the mean between its contraries.

But it is not merely a record of the past, for as the people of Israel told and wrote the story it was continuously re-created as a commentary on the meaning of Israel and the life of its people.

Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.

By the repetition, or causal objectification, of an earlier occasion in a later one, let me hasten to add, Whitehead did not mean, as so many of his interpreters have erroneously taken him to mean, merely that some eternal object ingressed in the earlier occasion is also ingressed in the later occasion.

Perhaps you have to because not to do so could result in just considering sin as merely a synonym for bad with no other meaning.

What you describe as «mean» is merely a response to your brothers and sisters in Christ who claim to be providing the «Good News» but actually are more interested in their one true Redeemer: $ $ $

[Brightman's] notion of the Given as an intrinsic limitation of God's power, a passive element in his activity, analogous to sensation and emotion in us, can be defined and defended only in the context of an adequate analysis of what is or can be meant by «passivity,» «sensation,» etc.; and the exploration of such concepts taken in their most fundamental or general senses, as they here must be, can only amount to a metaphysical system whose defense is not merely empirical, since the very meaning of «experience,» «facts,» etc., will have to be grounded in this system.54

When black theologians speak of God as God of the oppressed, we do not mean merely that God is present with, related to, worshipped by, or somehow involved with those who are oppressed.

As I noted above, this is not clear in contemporary debate over the meaning of positive and customary international law, and the case for this position must be argued, not merely asserted.

Symbolic events are instead regarded as merely manifestations of the universal and hence as not having meaning in themselves but only to the extent that they have lost their particularity.

Oh, the desolation of old age, if to be an old man means this: means that at any given moment a living person could look at life as if he himself did not exist, as if life were merely a past event that held no more present tasks for him as a living person, as if he, as a living person, and life were cut off from each other within life, so that life was past and gone, and he had become a stranger to it.

This helps the hearer to have a better perception of the reality that the experience represents.122 Otherwise, as Kafka says, «All these parables merely mean the incomprehensible is incomprehensible.

The first reason merely requires the judge to discern what the framers arid ratifiers meant, not to make up new rights the judge regards as «natural.»

The point of this section, then, is not merely that Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ; but also that to be the Christ, the Messiah, means to suffer and die.

«49 Meland is convinced that intellectual and emotional sensitivity to culture, to its depth significance, to its transcendent qualities and felt reality can bring one to the realities of faith, to the meaning of realities which can not be contained within merely rational structures, to realities which have not so much to be defined as to be acknowledged.

By means of his theological understanding he is able to reject doctrines of the Eucharist which are guilty of «psychologizing» it as merely a memory of a past event on the one hand, and «magical tendencies of some traditional doctrines» on the other (PPE 229).

the truth of biblical religion is pure and not the problem»... I envy yr faith... human artifacts, especially religious narratives are rarely as pure as you might suggest... at best, I think the scriptures shld be a means and not an end, so in that sense need not be pure... they are merely signposts along the way... ultimately, we are the judges of what is pure or impure, higher or lower, right or wrong

If «preaching,» as Bultmann is using the word, merely means standing in a pulpit and expounding the Bible, then it is not true that the decision of freedom and the authentic self occurs only when one is listening to a preacher.