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.