It is that deeper meaning — that great theme — that readers can attach, on a deeper,
more fundamental human level, to their own experience.
For me it was always more that I found I can't think of
a more fundamental human act than the act of learning or the act of teaching.
Not exact matches
Facebook controls what users see in two
fundamental ways: Its news - feed filtering algorithm decides how to rank various kinds of content to make the feed
more appealing, and a team of
human beings flags and / or removes posts when they appear to be offensive or disturbing.
«The
fundamental question is, as these systems become
more capable, is it possible that we will owe some kind of duty, some kind of empathy to them, in the same way that we have that for
human beings?»
These investors are driven
more by their
human emotions than by investment
fundamentals.
The UN
Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made
more than a dozen recommendations for
fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
This might indicate that something has made those values suited for
human life — but this is very speculative: we don't even know if the parameters could be different from what they are, all we know is that we don't know how to derive their values from
more fundamental physics.
In some cases this appeal to inner intuition might take the form of the claim that each of us has a «non-sensuous experience of the self» which is «both prior to our interpretation of our sense - knowledge and
more important as source for the
more fundamental questions of the meaning of our
human experience as
human selves» (BRO 75).
«The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of
fundamental human rights,» Congressman Smith told
more than 600,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the 2014 March for Life.
What is
more, if such a development should take place, AA might set a pattern for a
more fundamental cooperation between religion and psychology in dealing with
human problems in general.
To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to
human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a
fundamental religious vocation any
more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the
human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.
Rather, the profound negativities of
human existence — personal, societal and historical — seem so pervasive in this age that any route to
fundamental trust must be far
more circuitous, tentative and even potholed than I had once hoped.
We could use progressive strategies of redistribution to make everyone in America a comfortable consumer and still face widespread personal, working - class dissatisfaction if we don't address the basic
human need for work, a need
more fundamental than the desire to possess twenty - first - century consumer goods.
«Work,» the authors write, «is much
more than just a need to keep busy or bring home a paycheck... [It] is a
fundamental dimension of
human existence, an expression of our very nature.»
Human nature, in the sense of man's basic physical, emotional, impulsive and intellectual constitution, somehow moral at the core, seemed plainly more fundamental than any particular sort of human behavior, even economic; and human nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental s
Human nature, in the sense of man's basic physical, emotional, impulsive and intellectual constitution, somehow moral at the core, seemed plainly
more fundamental than any particular sort of
human behavior, even economic; and human nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental s
human behavior, even economic; and
human nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental s
human nature itself emerges in a world order far
more ancient and
more fundamental still.
Even
more fundamental to the secular worldview is the notion of
human rights.
Community - building is something basically
human and is probably
more fundamental than anything else.
As this involves a
fundamental tenet of our own nation and a
fundamental human right, I couldn't
more strongly disagree.
The best, because an abstract, propositional assent to religious freedom as a
fundamental human right has never been more widely embraced, and codified in such documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Ri
human right has never been
more widely embraced, and codified in such documents as the Universal Declaration of
Human Ri
Human Rights.
It was,
more precisely, based on a thinking through — although, in a way, a distortion — of Locke's
fundamental premises about
human nature by Rousseau.
Human social life is thus essentially derived from
more fundamental types of animate social order, although it is unique in many respects.
I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the
human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the
fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever
more complex physically, and psychologically ever
more centrated.
Embedded in the debate about what register of language and what kind of words we might use in the Mass is a
more fundamental, and vital, question: how valid is it to use any kind of
human language to talk to, and about, God?
And even
more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the
fundamental equality of
human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?
Yet soul care presupposes a
more fundamental equality of
human condition between the carer and those cared for.53
Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other
human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much
more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility
more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.
More fundamental are problems which
human beings have always faced when trying to shape their future — only now these problems bode incalculable harm because of the growth in population, and the growth in power of technology.
It appeared that humanity could be
more brutal than the beasts, that
human moral progress was a charade, and that evil and suffering were a
fundamental part of
human existence.
He shows that «For each age, the life and teachings of Jesus represented an answer (or,
more often the answer) to the most
fundamental questions of
human existence and of
human destiny, and it was to the figure of Jesus as set forth in the gospels that those questions were addressed.»
It was a question that required examining our
more fundamental views of what
human life is for, and what role society plays.
A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect
human rights and
fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and
more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.
Even
more fundamental is the survival of
human community.
The first and most
fundamental human right is the right to life, or, to be
more precise, the right of an innocent person not to be deliberately killed, whether by public authority or private license.
Yet in many ways the feminist call for change was even
more radical, since relations between men and women are
fundamental to all
human existence.
My break had also, and
more profoundly, to do with
fundamental understanding of
human nature, and with the relationship of that understanding to the socialist vision.
You protected my father when he was defenceless, but my son is
more powerless than my father was and has no voice, yet you are seriously contemplating siding with those who would deprive him of the most
fundamental human right of all.
Persons of faith should be deeply concerned about the current surveillance flap not because privacy is an absolute end in itself but rather because it points to and safeguards something else even
more basic and
fundamental, namely,
human dignity.
Managing anxiety in order to tackle a big project, managing anger to work through a marital conflict, managing fear to apply for a job — the ability of a
human being to manage his or her emotions in a healthy way will determine the quality of his life in a much
more fundamental way than his mental IQ.
In a Waldorf school, the arts are a
fundamental tool that not only furthers the students» academic skills but,
more importantly, cultivates the uniquely
human capacity of creativity.
The
fundamental principle behind Babies on Track is that the baby brain grows
more in its earliest years «before 3 years old «than at any other time in
human life.
More than the need for freedom, democracy and free elections, dignity is
fundamental to
human existence.
However, the idea that if society needs to bring resources to bear it is somehow not a
fundamental human right is an argument that seems to make assumptions about being somehow valid
more than any demonstration of validity having been made.
However, the yearning for dignity, demonstrated for example by the Arab Spring, is a
more fundamental and
more inclusive
human need than just the desire for freedom, and it is possible to live in freedom but not in dignity even in mature democracies.
While Western - type liberal democracies remain one of the most effective and tested forms of government in history, what is needed, globally, is not necessarily a transition to liberal democracy but rather a
more careful consideration of the
fundamental human quest for dignity, which often bears interpretations that are «endogenous» and adapted to various socio - cultural settings.
The first is that free economic activity is both a
fundamental expression of
human freedom and,
more powerfully, a
fundamental mechanism for self - realization.
«To answer
more fundamental questions in diseases, I had to have
more background in medical science and had to have
more insight into how the
human body works,» says Chen, who currently is a research fellow at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute — and has been admitted to the medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
They're calling for
more fundamental studies to understand how an exoskeleton and
human leg interact.
The understandability of the natural world is all the
more impressive when one considers the fact that
fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
This teaches us
more about what components of
human lymphoma biology are most
fundamental and critical.
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More broadly, our work supports the view that rats may be used to model
fundamental aspects of
human memory.»