Sentences with phrase «of human possibilities»

Exoskeleton will recalibrate the range of human possibilities — help stroke victims relearning to walk, soldiers humping body armor and builders hoisting sacks of concrete and hiking the wilderness.

What kind of blindness or perversity prompts this vapid idealism to choose, of all symbols, the Sermon on the Mount, with its exacting moral demands, all of them straining at the limits of human possibilities?

Second, globalization requires a greater degree of adaptability to the larger variety of human possibilities and capabilities that is made available.

Because association is indispensible to an understanding of the achievement of the best of human possibilities, such as art, science, philosophy, religion, society.

But the «Catholic» hope for Christian politics always acknowledged the reality of sin, too; and Tinder's more vigorous rejection of political hope may be a useful antidote to secular optimism even if it is not (as I think his not) a true statement of human possibilities.

But this does not change Garaudy's position on religion as a whole, for this transcendence must always remain within the immanence of human possibilities.

Though there are many links in the chain, the theology of Scotus eventually leads to Feuerbach's progressive history of religion, according to which our successive ideas of the divine are simply projections of human possibilities of perfection onto a large screen that we call God.

But they make of «God» still the farthest limit of our human possibilities, caught up with us just as surely within this body of death.

He was reluctant to identify transcendence with God because he understood the absoluteness of God to function as a limit, a restraint upon the otherwise unlimited field of human possibilities.

This disposition rests not on piety, patriotism, or defensive nostalgia (the opiate of the South), but on a bleak assessment of human possibilities.

If we win the political struggle, we will not even know what we want unless we have a new vision of man, a new sense of human possibility, and a new conception of the ordering of liberty, the constitution of freedom.

He begins his theological reconstruction with a study of human possibility, not with divine revelation.

This is clearest of all in ethics, which is essentially the study of the relation between the «is» of human nature and the «ought» of human possibility.

We appraise ourselves in the light of our human possibility and we are appraised by others in our relationship with them.

The tradition of Christian humanism, by joining together the dynamisms of the previous two great expansions, arguably opens the maximal horizon of human possibility.

Another emphasis of Tillich's is relevant here when we are considering what «it means to be human» and realize that our situation is such that the achievement of this human possibility is so frustrated and impeded.

In doing this, we have also seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human possibility.

There is another period in Western art which shares Picasso's finally dark vision of the human possibility: Romanesque art of the 11th and 12th centuries.

It forced to the surface «the extremes within the repertoire of human possibility.»

«I've got to find the unlimited scope of human possibility within myself.

Drawing on Newton's own works and the words of his contemporaries, the Newtonian Moment reveals a man who reached «the acme of human possibility» while remaining, nonetheless, just a little creepy.

Superheroes is a multi-media, group exhibition about heroes, villains and other less - definable examples of human possibility.

The more fully fleshed - out pieces are exciting as images that metaphorically embrace the further reaches of human possibility, from death and decay of the body to the mind's experience of transcendental beauty.

They're spans of human possibility, each one representing — all in one magnificent structure — support, direction, and destination.

Not exact matches

It's best to open up the possibility of not having to write that termination letter at all and shed valuable human capital.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

By the end of the next decade, neither spacecraft that take off and land from a runway like a conventional jet airliner nor reusable rockets will be outside the realm of possibility, and either could change the calculus of human space travel.

Writer Gillian Terzis explains that, «Humans have long entertained the possibility of communing with the machines, exploring them as servants, or using them for sexual gratification.

Ah, the possibilities of humans colonizing outer space.

Gates, it seems, can live with that possibility if it cushions some of the human cost of the transition to an A.I. - filled future.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

«With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things in a way that leverages the power of our trusted brand, fits with our company purpose of expanding the human possibilities of the connected world, and puts us at the heart of a very large addressable market where we can make a meaningful difference in peoples» lives.»

The charging snake requires no human action to properly charge the user's car, eliminating the possibility of forgetting to charge.

Rather than playing into an «us - versus - them» competitive dichotomy, this new space age hinges on exploring the possibility of economic expansion off - planet — a notion bolstered by the innate human urge to push the boundaries of what's possible.

It is mind - boggling to imagine the implication of finally having a store of value that is also strictly scarce, like human time, with no possibility for increased supply devaluing the value stored inside it.

The methods used for dating are accurate except for the possibility of human error.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

The great «health transition,» as some call it, seemed to require adjustment in the face of changed possibilities for human flourishing.

When you look at all the decisions Human Beings make on a daily basis, the «Branches» of possibility are enormous.

One virus - particle doesn't change color, but as it procreates mutations in that process can make the resulting child - virus differ from the parent - virus, so that the child - virus is capable of infecting a human as well as the original host thereby opening the possibility for a new human disease.

By extending the pitch of consciousness and human possibility.»

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

Contraception is the promise of child - free sex, and when something goes wrong and a child is conceived ¯ due either to the technical failure rate of contraception or to the possibility of human error in anything we humans undertake ¯ abortion takes that child - free promissory note to the bank.

Semicompatibilism abandons regulative control (the sort of freedom that involves genuine access to alternative possibilities) and asserts that humans have only guidance control.

The possibility of human cloning is striking only because it breaks the connection so emphatically.

Far from condoning every destruction of nature that is executed in the name of human purposes, the maximal happiness principle prescribes such sacrifice only when the human possibilities are thereby greater than they would otherwise be.

Thus, human possibilities are increased in the measure that human individuality is a part of the inherited world.

80: «The mere process of verbalization, being a human and hence fallible operation, introduces possibilities of error that involve more than memory.»

But it also follows that human individuals themselves have the greatest potential for increasing the possibilities of other human individuals.

@believer, I don't know if you'd call me an atheist, but I don't believe in a god or gods and, while open to the possibility that some may exist, am highly unlikely ever to believe in the Christian god, mostly because 1) most versions require an anti-scientific concept of «free will» and 2) I think there's abundant evidence of human creation of the Christian god concept.