Sentences with phrase «of human circumstance»

Perhaps we should be looking not for detailed answers to our many questions but the authoritative statement of the principles which govern life beneath the ebb and flow of human circumstance.

Not exact matches

By simply allowing yourself to accept reality for what it is, instead of fantasizing about human nature in such a way that you could be «rescued» from your daily circumstances, you're making a tremendous step forward.

Kocijancic said it was «extremely important the Turkish authorities respect under any circumstances the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms.»

Feeding computers large sets of data teaches them to mimic the human brain's ability to infer rules from previous experiences and adapt to changing circumstances.

The NTSB also recommended that manufacturers should limit (and NHTSA should verify that they have limited) the use of automated driving systems to appropriate circumstances, and develop systems to more effectively sense a human driver's level of engagement and alert the driver when automated driving systems are in use and the driver is inattentive.

In the right set of circumstances, many multiples of that amount could incrementally flow into gold, a simple product that has been innately understood for millennia by human beings all over the globe.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

Predetermined principles would lead to casuistry, and besides, «the variety of situations and human circumstances is too vast» to be covered by them.

I am also aware, finally, that we might for now approve human cloning but only in restricted circumstances - as, for example, the cloning of preimplantation embryos (up to fourteen days) for experimental use.

There is a human struggle within magical circumstances and a lesson to be learned at the end of the adventure.

Hence, for me to refuse to go to Germany under these circumstances would be tacit assent to the assumption that the Holocaust was an eruption of such primordial, unintelligible evil that the human beings who perpetrated it were as powerless as its victims.

Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others only if, in the totality of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account of the probability of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.

Woman's singular strength arises from her awareness that God entrusts other eternal subjects to her and even where modernity has resulted in a «gradual loss of sensitivity for man, that is for what is essentially human», maternal love must «ensure sensitivity for human beings in every circumstance: because they are human!».

Like most things in life iron clad principles of action for human beings are hard to make due to the inherent uniqueness of each circumstance.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

It is an expression of the wonder of being human when people take miserable circumstances and discover unexpected possibilities for some good, even some growth in them!

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

The human race will be deciding the answer in the next few decades under circumstances of a major transition in the history of mankind.

The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.

Sexual intercourse is the way of procreation, and even where for reasons of natural circumstances or human intervention new life is not begotten, the act is never wholly separated from this meaning.

Dr Thevathasan presents a lucid history of the thought of Freud and Jung, and the circumstances which led them to develop their often bizarre theories of human behaviour.

For «providence» is a word which tells us of the conviction that God exercises a never - failing and personal control over, even as he unfailingly works within, the events and circumstances of life, molding them and molding us in such a way that his grace and power are manifested in human history and in personal experience.

It is true that every great discovery in human civilization is made in particular circumstances and because of a favorable combination of circumstances.

The subject - matter and circumstances of important human and social decisions have increased in complexity to such an extent that the whole context has practically changed its nature.

Otto Pollak has pointed to the human need for regular times of regression in appropriate company and circumstances.

He succumbed, therefore, to what André Malraux called «the temptation of the West» — the illusion that humans can master historical circumstances.

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

But nonteleologists argue forcefully that the very idea of taking or torturing or otherwise physically invading innocent human life under any circumstances is inconsistent with our deepest moral intuitions (e.g., Donagan 172 - 89).

Well, not as we might want or expect, but the almost unbelievable set of circumstances and human actions all point to a director behind the scenes.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

If valid, this view rightly gives Christians and others hope that respect for the integrity of creation is less alien to human life, and more attainable, than circumstances have often led us to believe.

Sometimes the only comfort I find is that as part of the human race I am only one person among many over centuries and centuries who find themselves in dire circumstances and suffer almost unbearably.

Termination of human life is not pretty no matter the circumstance, abortion or any other.

At most, you can find Genesis 9:1 - 6 as allowing eating of meat and not explicitly stating that it is OK to eat human flesh (as long as you don't consider humans as «moving» creatures), but as far as looking at the law in detail goes; search the Law in detail and you will find many explicitly laid out things that you «shall not eat» listing many different types of animals and circumstances but you will not find humans listed among them.

It is more about human characters doing whatever it takes under extreme circumstances to stay alive in terms of «action film» techniques.

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

In the totality of Jesus» human life, obedient to the will of God even to the point of death, there is the enactment, on the stage of history and in the circumstances of human existence, of the right relationship of that existence with God.

By the experience of responsibility I mean the awareness (of every rational human) that one is called to seek what, in his or her circumstances, is the correct choice of conduct.

Our Founders were not philosophers; they had a job to do, albeit one that required great insight into the human condition as well as a myriad of changing circumstances.

Because of this human response, there is an element of Judaism that is changeable and adaptable to circumstances.

For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivable human circumstance, for every conceivable human need from infancy and before it to extreme old age and after it, from the pinnacles of earthly greatness to the refuge of fugitives in the caves and dens of the earth.

We do not know what effect such prayers will have, but we do know that all generous prayer is valued by God, and while God always does the best that can be done in every circumstance, we may cherish the thought that God also can use prayer of that kind for furthering the divine purposes for good, though it may be in a way past human comprehension.

A few days later, in a press conference, that bishop repeated that, while he didn't know the particular circumstances of every case, the right of conscientious objection is a human right and enters into every human right, for government officials and for everyone.

«We must be prepared to live with the vision contained in the [Rawls»] original position, mutual disinterest and all,» he writes, «prepared to live with it in the sense of accepting its description as an accurate reflection of human moral circumstance, consistent with our understanding of ourselves.»

Concretely, he must never be satisfied to cease asking â $ ˜but why?â $ ™ until he has driven his understanding to the point where he has an immediate, human grasp of what a given position meant, such that every nuance in the data is accounted for and withal, given the total of presuppositions and circumstances, he could feel himself doing the sameâ $ (p. 290).

Human rights, however, can become an ideology that rejects this political responsibility, saying that migrants who qualify as refugees must be accepted, regardless of circumstances.

Related lessons should be concerned with the reality of human sensitivity and the need to make it ever finer and more responsive; the naturalness of loving and the circumstances that enhance it or enfeeble it.

I think it's very easy to forget that the Bible is a book written for human beings, none of whom are exactly the same in circumstance, journey, thought or understanding.

These symbols are rooted in historical circumstance, not human contrivance; they are «born,» «live,» and «die» within the life of the communities shaped by them.