Sentences with phrase «of human potential which»

Inevitably the «media», whether in epic folktale, Greek or Shakespearean drama or TV, take up that dark side of human potential which is violence.»
I agonize at the extraordinary waste of human potential which the despair of ghetto America represents.

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Instead of human brokers and underwriters, Lemonade uses a custom - built artificial intelligence platform, which calculates monthly rates for potential new customers in seconds.
The victory over the world's top player — which many thought would take decades to achieve — underlines the potential of artificial intelligence to take on humans at complex tasks.
In our new book of the same name, my coauthors and I explain how values, a foundation of trust, and effective leadership allow organizations of all industries to maximize their human potential, which leads to greater innovation and revenue growth.
«We are honored to receive this award which underscores the unique value of our technology platform and its game changing potential to make novel vaccines for important human diseases.»
-- has become the single lens through which to view social experience; the infinite potential of real human beings has been surrendered on the altar of protest.
It aims to lift up in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of human potential, among some ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.
In the case of microbes which feed on humans, a society with limited potential for intensity of experience may achieve a measure of endurance by destroying societies of occasions which form the necessary environment for dominant human occasions of greater potential intensity of experience.
Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.
In wildly ecstatic ways, and with all the impreciseness and lack of logical consistency which goes with that kind of unbelievably good news, the New Testament wants to say to us that here is man's chance to become free and to achieve his full human potential.
And, he explicitly argues that this «traditional conservatism,» which is by the way, not an ideology, has the potential to address the age - old problems related to political science, while implicitly suggesting the possibility of recapturing man's tensional existence in the Platonic Metaxy, thereby restoring the order necessary to illuminate the divine - human encounter.
In the course of time he receives from them the language and the heritage of culture which enable him to develop his human potential.
We can also say, then, that all human individuals always have the rights that define them as potential participants in moral discourse, one of which is the right to be or become an actual participant in such discourse, and these universal rights articulate a universal social practice.
While theists can learn by listening to atheists more, atheists themselves can foster greater understanding by not just emphasizing the «no» of atheism — our disagreement over the existence of any gods — but also the «yes» of atheism and secular humanism, which recognizes the amazing potential within human beings.
My position, which I commend for your consideration, is as follows: While I do not rule out the morality of research into human cloning, I do support a moratorium on such research, which would be removed in light of strong evidence for the positive benefits of such research and after concrete proposals have been formulated for avoiding the potential risks.
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.
Just as Republicans may be accused of ignoring their responsibility to the poor and oppressed, so you are guilty of choosing to ignore the possibility that we may have a greater responsibility to humankind — a responsibility to promote a culture of life, instead of death, a culture in which every human life is valued and allowed to reach its full potential.
Griffin further challenges the assumption of a «human monopoly on conscious thought» by noting that current experiments indicate that animals produce «event related potentials» which resemble those produced by human beings.
What matters here is that the total witness found in the Gospels, as well as in the epistles of Paul, John, and others, is to an activity of God in human existence and through a human activity, through which «newness of life» has been known; God has been seen as sheer Love - in - action, and human existence has been given meaning and value as a potential agency for divine Love in the world and in human affairs.
Aware that this line leaves out of account the potential of the child for a full human life, Singer responds that «in a world that is already over-populated, and in which the regulation of fertility is universally accepted, the argument that we should bring all potential people into existence is not persuasive.»
And if our children disappear, the untold potential for insight, for creativity, and for love and compassion of which the human spirit is capable, would vanish from the stage of the unfolding cosmic drama.
I suspect we will see its splintering in five different directions, only one of which genuinely responds to the human drive for ultimacy and thus has much potential for influencing contemporary culture.
To that extent a theology which regards as already present in the first human being at his first beginnings what he is only to become in the course of his history, is not false, but correct, and corresponds to the characteristic nature of man, providing it distinguishes the pre-existence of the history in the potential beginning, from the presence of this ground of his nature in the history actually accomplished.
For MacIntyre, the practices necessary for training in practical reason through which we acquire the ability to act intelligibly requires the systematic growth of human potential by acquired excellence that can not help but challenge the character of modern moral practice and theory.
Yet we in the West should strive for humane borders in which travelers and immigrants of all backgrounds are treated with respect by state authorities, and valued as human beings with great potential, rather than dismissed as faceless hordes — or, in Hitchens's words, «countless persons from who - knows - where.»
Beating pillows, crying, sobbing, shouting, swearing, screaming, embracing, they embarked upon what purported to be a great voyage of discovery, from which they received a finely tuned method enabling them to reach their human potential.
Approaches that perceive persons only through the upper lens of the bifocals (which enables one to see the strengths and positive potentials in everyone) sabotage their own effectiveness by their incomplete vision of human beings.
Chris, I think that you're spot - on when you write that,»... atheists themselves can foster greater understanding by not just emphasizing the «no» of atheism — our disagreement over the existence of any gods — but also the «yes» of atheism and secular humanism, which recognizes the amazing potential within human beings.»
This transformation must also include at least some minimal comprehension of the basic steps which must be taken in order to avoid catastrophe and realize the enormous potential for human enjoyment which is within our reach.
Now, the minor chord in this train of thought is that the very characteristics which make human beings potential paradigms of embodied divine aim in the world also give them greater scope for the persistent thwarting of divine aim.
The frightening seriousness of our destructive potential — nuclear war, a deteriorating environment, overpopulation — and the instant mass communication which keeps us constantly aware of the precariousness of human existence, make our anxieties high much of the time.
My aim is to nourish what I believe is an emerging new consciousness among many potential dreamers and doers in the churches who can help provide us with the visions and the values we need to promote a movement toward an ecologically optimum world community full of justice and joy in which the human race can not only survive but embark on exciting new adventures of physical and spiritual enjoyment.
But the fact that technological and social revolutions which did have the potential and promise of producing a world community with richer and filler human life for all humanity, resulted in the intensification of mass poverty, social oppression, war and ecological destruction, have led many to consider self - sufficient Secular Humanism as inadequate to understand or deal with the tragic dimensions of the human selfhood and social existence.
The reason this ultimate program seems so remote or Incredible is partly that we have as yet no real conception of the variables exhibited in human experience, and hence do not see how widely different values from any occurring in our experience are abstractly conceivable as missing areas or extended portions of the domains of potential characters which the variables permit.
As the translation of this sentence stands, we could easily imagine that Christ comes to give us a fulfilment which is enough for us, which is our full measure, which fills up our potential as human beings.
A particularly unhealthy result of male - female sex role training is that gaps have been created in people which limit their potential to become whole human beings.
For Holloway human reason is that natural and immediate power of spiritual mind over physical matter which recognises unities of matter - energy and sees the potential to develop them into new unities.
They may be regarded as precursors of human creativity, and point to the existence of unsuspected potentials in the organism which are dormant in the normal routines of existence but emerge in response to new challenges offered by the environment — a zoological analogy to Toynbee's paradigm of Challenge and Response.
They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.
The growth counselor can use the human potentials and lifelong development perspectives as the hub of the wheel around which insights and methods from the newer growth oriented psychotherapies — e.g., reality therapy, transactional analysis, gestalt therapy, action therapies — can be integrated.
Partly it was simple lack of knowledge of how thunder and lightning work and a hundred other mechanisms of the natural world; partly it was response to the mystery of life itself, the human potential for malice and for love, a mystery which still calls for answers beyond those easily formulated by the human sciences.
Therefore, we identify God with the creative order of the world, a process which transforms human beings, brings values from a potential to an actual state, and works to overcome evil with good.
Parents are ideally positioned to nurture an intrinsic sense of self worth in their child which will help grow them into their full human potential.
In January, 2 On Your Side reported on accusations of potential wrongdoing lodged against Collins, which picked up national attention during the confirmation hearings of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Tom Price, who also bought the stocks.
Hitler's ascent to power took place thanks to this wave of emotional frustration over Germany's position in the world.The advent of neuroscience has slowly revealed new potential avenues to understand and decrypt the mysteries of the human brain, which is the seat of our emotions and our morality.
STRANEK finds worrying possibilities of «conflict of interest» in the deal, consequent to which a petition has been presented to Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) stating that the Minister for Finance, Mr. Ofori - Attah, «has attempted to promote a private, personal interest for himself or for some family members and business associates and the promotion of the private interest has resulted in, or was intended to result in, or appears to have resulted in, or has the potential to result in an interference with the objective exercise of his duties and an improper benefit or an advantage by virtue of his position», necessitating a call for an investigation into the bond deal.
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This opens the door to connecting human microbiome samples between databases, which has the potential to expose sensitive subject information — for example, a sexually - transmitted infection, detectable from the microbiome sample itself,» said lead author Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard Chan.
In addition to protecting against 80 percent of cervical cancers, the new 9 - Valent human papillomavirus vaccine, which includes seven cancer causing HPV - types, has the potential to protect against nearly 19,000 other cancers diagnosed in the United States, including anal, oropharyngeal and penile cancers.
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