Today, more than three hundred years after John Locke spelled out his theory that the greatest good is served by each person following his or her own best interests, some economists and politicians are still trying to bend and stretch this outmoded «explanation» of life to fit social realities that say it just doesn't meet human needs today.
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If health suffers, it tells us that
human needs aren't being
met.»
I'm
not going to go so far as to say that her boyfriend converted her, like many people on here have... I understand it, as an agnostic and
not an atheist... There is a
human need that is filled by religion that is hard to be
met elsewhere.
The existence of the churches is
not in jeopardy; they are and will continue to be for large numbers of persons the only accessible institutions that will
meet their
need to be affirmed in their identity and sense of belonging in both a
human and a divine dimension.
Our profession
need not now agree on its origin, significance, and value for
human happiness when we acknowledge that by itself it does
not meet the requirements for a psy disorder.
If we
met in his spirit today, if we wanted to honor him in a way that would be acceptable
not to his
human vanity, for which he would
need to do bitter penance, but to his central purpose and will, how would we go about it?
These again are
not limits on
human liberty; they provide the context freely to give up one's immediate desires to
meet the
needs of others.
Love of the neighbor is shown
not only by the way a disciple lives, which we shall consider first, but also, as we shall see in the second section of the chapter, by the combined efforts of the followers of Jesus to
meet human need and, third, by attempts to change the structures of society.
Culture is
not a mere superstructure, but no healthy culture can survive unless basic
human needs are
met with some surplus of energy remaining to the people.
Our profession
need not now agree on its origin, significance, and value for
human happiness when we acknowledge that by itself it does
not meet the requirements for a psyc disorder.
It crushes my soul to watch basic
needs of every
human not being
met.
Anyone making a thorough scientific study of religious and philosophical thought through out the world, including
not only a culturally self centered conceited study of Judeo - Christain - Islamic Western forms alone... would find a much more rich variety of understanding,
meeting the
needs of the many levels of developed conciousness in the
human species.
In Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict explained how
human needs can
not be
met by remote bureaucracies but find their fulfilment in loving personal concern.
In the context of our social situation, revelation means the promise of justice for and liberation of the oppressed and the poor, of all whose basic
needs have
not been
met and whose
human dignity has
not been recognized.
As
humans, we know that all other aspects of life suffer when our basic
needs are
not being
met.
Interestingly, but
not really surprising, when a
human infants inherent
need for contact and proximity (reassurance through touch, parent directed vocalizations, emotional support) are
met by parents early in their lives rather than becoming «dependent» as is always suggested in the popular press the reverse is actually true: that is, early dependence leads to early independence and self sufficiency and, perhaps even, enhanced self — confidence.
Some infants do
not have enough natural reserves of iron, a mineral necessary for normal
human growth and development, to
meet their
needs.
Meeting our infant's biological
need for
human contact is
not about following a particular parenting philosophy.
Getting to a place where being
human outweighs
meeting social norms and expectations will
not only begin the process to reducing negative mental health outcomes for mothers, but it will also help develop the supports that mothers
need to be a model for positive self care and mental health for their families.
How can that be, when studies have shown over and over that
human milk isn't just a food but a substance optimized to
meet the complex
needs of the
human child?
But when they are delivered during breastfeeding, they have a very different effect, because breastfeeding is
not only natural and of
human origin, but the milk is ever - changing to
meet the infant's changing
needs, changing throughout the feedings, from day to night, and as the baby grows.»
Similarly, you can possibly train a baby to lie quietly in bed rather than to cry out for a parent, but you won't
meet the
need that triggered the cry — whether that
need is for breastmilk or just
human company and reassurance.
Addressing dignity is
not a question of political concessions or liberal bias, but of
meeting fundamental
human needs.
«It certainly is
not an insignificant amount of money, so as people are potentially looking for ways to grow us out of this and
meet some of the
human service
needs we have to
meet, it's a way to do it without raising taxes.»
Meanwhile, purification efforts to clean up polluted rivers, lakes, streams, and wells can
not meet the world's growing water
needs, and water shortages are already causing
human and ecological suffering on a haunting scale.
But according to the tenets of interest - based bargaining, focusing too much on objective criteria such as price, or salary in the case of faculty positions, can produce a tenuous agreement in which basic
human needs — security, economic well - being, a sense of belonging, recognition, control over one's life — are
not met.
The limited number of permissible cell lines left, Melton says, can
not meet the medical
needs of a population as genetically diverse as the
human race.
If I hadn't
met them at that conference, I wouldn't have found the mentoring support and advice I
needed at a critical junction in my career, which ended up launching an entire field of researchers using C. elegans to explicitly model
human disease.»
Nine of these amino acids the
human body either can
not make at all or can
not make in sufficient quantity to
meet its
needs.
Humans, like many carnivores, can
meet their salt
needs by eating meat and seafood, provided they do
not sweat excessively.
How could we possibly get our calcium
needs met and protect our bones and muscles without milk... even though we are
human beings and
not calves?
Some amino acids are «conditionally essential», meaning that certain populations who naturally don't make enough, or all
humans under certain conditions, may require certain dietary intake to
meet their
needs.
Since they can
not be converted by
humans into alpha - tocopherol, the tocotrienols are
not considered relevant in
meeting vitamin E
needs.
Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in
humans whereby two people
meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Self - esteem isn't an essential
need like food or water, but it's a supplement that can either dramatically improve your life, or keep you stunted and
You don't
need any Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in
humans whereby two people
meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a
You can
not bring every single child to proficiency in every single standard while, at the same time,
meeting their
needs as
human beings and helping them both see and reach their full potential.
The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs
need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was
not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to
meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and
human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.
Dogs have specific dietary
needs that are
not met by the meal habits of
humans.
Dogs (unlike
humans) manufacture their own vitamin C, but the amount they produce may
not meet their
needs if they are under stress or fighting infection.
Our
human homes are
not meeting our cat's
needs.
Humans impact the lives of all cats positively or negatively when they
meet their
needs or they don't.
Also like
humans, when those
needs are
not being
met, dogs may revert to inappropriate behavior to express their distress.
Both women had journeyed to Africa and seen firsthand a basic
human need that wasn't being
met: access to clean, safe drinking water.
the digital age's impact on our expectations of privacy; the increasingly pronounced economic inequality throughout the world, which leaves resources under the control of few; increased military spending at a time when basic
human needs related to shelter, food, and medicine are
not being
met; and worldwide drought and the impact of water shortages.
Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to
meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must
meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to
meet the
needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to
meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do
not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.
A drought in Texas to a meteorologist is
not the same as a drought in California because a true drought in California is a lack of enough water in northern Cal reservoirs to
meet human needs over the anticipated dry period.
Unless their primary
needs are
met as we strive to reduce deforestation, then we will
not be changing their dependency and
human rights violations will continue.
Resource pessimists, on the other hand, believe that the availability of physical and environmental resources will soon constrain the ability to
meet human needs and therefore that conservation is required immediately if
not sooner.
While trade - offs are inevitable, science can help identify compatible water management actions that
not only buffer against the worst effects of climate change, but
meet ecosystem
needs while satisfying
human demands, says Joshua Viers