Sentences with phrase «of human powers»

Others will deride this effort as a hubristic overstatement of human powers.

Well, it means trying to push capitalists to address the suffering of the poor and the oppressed, as long as capitalism continues to operate, but we must recognize that we need to move beyond capitalism if we ever hope to bring about genuine equality and a greater unfolding of human powers and capacities.

Of course, just what these implications do include at any given time and place is a variable, which depends not only on the actual circumstances of action but even more importantly on some understanding of the range of relevant interests and of the extent of human powers for realizing them.

Likewise, other extensions of human powers have a price.

Niebuhr said that if «biblical thought seems to neglect the creative aspect of the extension of human powers in its prophecies of doom upon proud nations, this is due only to the fact that it is more certain than is Greek thought that, whatever the creative nature of human achievements, there is always a destructive element in human power.»

Perhaps even more significant than this replacement of human labor is the extension, classification, and perfection of the human powers of thought made possible by automatic machines.

Ecology deals not with the interaction of human power, but with man's relation to the nature of which he is a part.

The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.

This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.»

The preoccupation with human power will likely continue, both for reasons of the enhanced impacts of human power in a shrinking world, and growing social conflict.

And how can the predatory abuse of human power in prisons against the most vulnerable in their midst be turned so as to allow willed spiritual vulnerability to be empowered by grace?

In Kagan's account, Niebuhr's distinctive warnings about the temptations of human power are absent» as are his concerns about the perils of hubris and overreaching by those who are overly confident of the efficacy of power and justice in the world.

The modern industrial worker has to perform meaningless and mechanical work because of an inhuman utilization of human power without regard to the worthiness of the work performed.

However, when used in the service of a partisan political agenda, religion often succumbs to the deceit of human power, becoming just another political player and, at worst, part of the problem of human tyranny.

God is incomprehensible, for God does not exist in the sphere of human power.

Inevitably the manipulator comes to see himself in the same light as those his theory has made manipulable; and in the self - inclusive solidarity with the general human lowliness amidst the splendor of human power his charity is but self - compassion and that tolerance that springs from self - contempt: we are all poor puppets and can not help being what we are... 29

The exousia, that is, the sovereignty, that appears in his attitudes and words in not power in terms of human power.

H. Richard finds tragedy in the limits of human power: Reinhold sees it in the limits of human righteousness.

They did reject any view that grace is under the control of a human power, even that of the church.

Olympian athleticism can reside on a spectrum with transgendering, as forms of human power over against nature.

Skills and technology of all kinds may be admirable, but the tyrannical or greedy use of human power over nature is a failure deriving from human sin, not from God's intention in creation.

In the name of science and of human power, this movement is radical so far as the old dogmas, creeds, etc. are concerned.

It has been imprisoned in the cells of alien dogma; it has been bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of human tradition; it has been entombed as a sepulcher by systems of theology, and the stone of human power has been rolled up to close its door.»

While he was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978, his perusal of an issue of Human Power caused a light bulb to flash on over his head.

Like Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind and Laputa: Castle in the Sky, this Miyazaki epic puts ecological concerns at the center of a human power struggle — but a decade on from those earlier films, the director's worldview had become much more complex.

While, for Andre, sculpting wood and stone into minimalist lines is a continuation of a long - held positivist tradition of the human power to change material, critic Philippe Pirotte notes that Nkanga evades the drive to «make a new product out of [resources].»

Trained and inspired her Dad's values of human power and small resource impact on the earth, she lives car - free in the converted garage right along the bike path.

It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power — specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

The author brings up many of the challenges that face designers of human powered devices, but his conclusions tend to lead one to believe that they will never be useful.

There are also velomobile clubs, including one in Brantford, part of the Human Powered Transportation Association.

This explains why pedal power is often laughed at in the western world but enthusiastically welcomed in the developing world, where, for instance, methods of agriculture still rely heavily on the use of human power using primitive tools which are usually inefficient.

Yup, a bike and a byte company have joined forces to promote the benefits of human powered ingenuity.

There is, as Yuval Levin noted in his remarks on the encyclical, something paradoxical about the union of the left, which tends to see itself as the party of science, and the environmental movement, since the latter's holistic view of nature is at odds with modern science's ethic of human power over nature.

Florida Statute 316.003 defines bicycles as a vehicle with two tandem wheels propelled solely by human control, and all motorized bicycle propelled by a combination of human power and an electric helper motor capable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of not more than 20 miles per hour on level ground upon which any person may ride, and including any device generally recognized as a bicycle though equipped with two front or two rear wheels.

Not exact matches

In those kinds of use cases, I think we're unlocking the power of what it means to be human.

On disappointment with Obama: «Unfortunately, shortly after assuming power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge.»

With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step - by - step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

He says the 360 Eye sucks between seven to eight litres of air through it per second — twice that of the Roomba — which gives it the power to pick up particles as small as 0.5 microns, or smaller than a human hair.

«The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster... Specialization in verbiage, classification, and mechanized thinking has put man out of touch with many of the marvelous powers of «instinct» which govern his body.

Strategically, this makes sense: When humans stop opting - in, for fear of theft or perhaps because they grow weary of annoying, incoherent targeting, data will ultimately lose its power.

Asked if that points toward hazard for humans, he said phone providers are «moving more and more toward lower power exposures to humans» as new generations of mobile service come become available.

The idea that these grand concepts can not be scaled up cheaply or quickly due to physics or other severe limitations of Nature is anathema to a faith in the unconquerable power of human ingenuity and open markets.

Corporate leaders and human resources executives can harness the power of these principles to reshape our work environment.

I just wish that more leaders took interest in the humans in our workplaces and marketplaces and helped everyone be accountable to the expectation of doing more in operationalizing the power of the individual defining the business at all levels of business.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

Turkle is the author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on human relationships to technology.

According to InfiniLED's website, the startup's ILED display technology is powered by millions of tiny LED chips, each roughly one - tenth the width of a strand of human hair, that are assembled on electronic circuits.

A spokeswoman for the EPA declined to comment, but a top official said in an internal memo that EPA leaders «will do everything in our power to protect our ability to support the mission of the agency in protecting human health and the environment.»

This new breed of neurotechnology will allow the merging of the human brain with the power of machines in order empower humans to keep up with artificial intelligence.

Where the power of those instruments needs to be limited, as it surely sometimes does, it can not be done by pulling the rug out from under individual, human liberties.