Sentences with phrase «objective human standard»
Fourth, the prophets saw with utter clarity the persistent fact of sin, and saw it not as maladjustment or even as failure to «hit the mark» of some objective human standard, but as sin against God.
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This was premised on the notion that standards of morality are objective and unchanging (therefore, «hate the sin»), but that human beings are weak and often fail to live up to those standards (therefore, «love the sinner»).
With no objective moral standards, one can be most certain that even the worst of human atrocities can eventually be viewed with legal protection.
Rather than yielding to relativistic morality, Newman's conception of real assent fortifies objective standards while embracing human nature.
The resulting stalemate illustrated the ambivalence with which our contemporary legal culture regards the proposition that there exists some objective standard of right and wrong against which human legal standards can be measured.
The position taken here is that the moral enterprise makes sense only if there are objective excellences that invite the loyalties of men and constitute the standard and goal of human endeavor.
Muñoz argues yes: Even if the founders believed government's primary aim was to secure rights, they still upheld an objective standard of human good, to which law should conform, regardless of private interests.
And against Hume as well as Dewey, Whitehead insists that human experience includes the intuition of eternal ideals functioning as objective, yet individualized, standards for action: «There are experiences of ideals... entertained, of ideals aimed at, of ideals achieved, of ideals defaced....
In the end (which is actually near the beginning of the manuscript), Goldhaber notes that VAMs are «distinct» as compared to classroom observations, because they offer «an objective measure that does not rely on human interpretation of teacher practices, and by design, [they offer] a system in which teachers are evaluated relative to one another rather than relative to an absolute standard (i.e., it creates a distribution in which teachers can be ranked).
The objective of this one - day programme on November 17th, was to bring educational leaders together with human resource professionals to establish an ongoing dialogue for raising assessment standards by embracing world class best practices and exploring new technologies.
Expert witness Juan Mendez, a professor of human rights and international law at the Washington College of Law of the American University in Washington, D.C., and a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, testified that the Mandela Rules represent an objective standard for determining whether a person has been subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment; and, he said, «there has been quite a solid consensus that anything beyond 15 days is in violation of international standards... even with mitigating circumstances.»
Responsible for coordinating day - to - day utilization of human and material resources to achieve the goals, objectives and standards of health care
As past Social Justice Reports have noted, human rights transcend politics and provide objective standards to which governments worldwide are accountable.
Suction blister wounds are an excellent model for studying the effects of early wound healing.50 Measurement of the rate of transepidermal water loss (TEWL) through human skin provides a noninvasive method to monitor changes in the stratum corneum barrier function of the skin, providing an excellent objective method for evaluation of wound healing.51 The 8 blister sites were assessed daily for 8 days following removal of the blister chambers50 and then again on day 12, along with daily control values from adjacent nonwounded skin; after subtracting the average control values from the average daily measurement, the 90 % standard for healing was based on reaching 90 % of the day 1 measures.
With respect for human rights, that affirms our basic dignity as human beings and provides objective, transparent standards against which to measure our joint efforts.