Sentences with phrase «of human purpose»

The most daunting problems facing our society — drugs, violence, racism, poverty, the dissolution of family and community, and certainly war — are all matters of human purpose and meaning.

The Dalai Lama has received this year's $ 1.7 million prize from the John Templeton Foundation, a Pennsylvania - based charity that supports research in the sciences, philosophy, and theology aimed at understanding «big questions of human purpose and ultimate reality.»

Templeton, a devout Presbyterian, established the foundation in 1987 to serve as a «philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality,» according to its mission statement.

The corrective is to be found in the New Testament experience; what emerged in the first century world was a profoundly revolutionary community, rooted in a new understanding of history and of human purpose.

We should not trivialize this violation of human purpose.

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.

Even in the study of the human, there is some embarrassment about a full acknowledgment of the complexity of human purposes.

Though they do deny the unlimited autonomy of the human will, they also constitute conditions for the realization of human purposes.

The regularities of the brain and the emergent features of human purposes enable us to connect brain, mind and God in an understandable and fruitful way.

While interesting and suggestive, such views also involve considerable problems in both clarifying and justifying the idea of «respect for nature (and the related notions of the «rights» of nature or the need for nature's liberation from human intervention and the imposition of human purposes).

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Communicating and expressing opinions can cause tremendous success in human resource management and this is one of the purposes team buildings have.

In his landmark book on human motivation, Drive, Dan Pink makes a case that true motivation consists of three elements — autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Little wonder, since both were created for the sole purpose of «slipping the surly bonds» of Earth and putting human beings and cargo onto other celestial bodies.

The purpose of the disaster film is not to make small conflicts bigger but to make big ones smaller - to reduce unthinkable catastrophes to a human scale.

Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

Automation has given humans more time to think, reflect and pursue work that gives them a sense of purpose.

But organizers of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnHuman Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnhuman embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnancy.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services deems childcare affordable if no more than 10 percent of a family's income is used for that purpose.

In the early days of human existence, for example, it served a survival purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other humans.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

LA NY: Aerial Photographs of Los Angeles and New York (Thames & Hudson, November 7, 2017) is a dazzling visual tale of two cities, Los Angeles and New York, photographed from the air, shooting straight down to emphasize the particular patterns of place and how the urban grid adapts to local topography — and, indeed, how the topography is itself adapted to human purposes.

«The purpose of the review is to identify any shortcomings in the human resources and investigation processes and procedures and to identify improvements to these processes and procedures,» wrote Fyfe.

«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.»

Worse, voluntarily makes poor choices that run counter to reason and actual goal achievement, with the ultimate result of human annihilation, to no purpose except machine contrarianism.

It is nothing but a number, no different than 999,999,999,999 for all practical purposes, but we humans are not practical creatures: we attach importance to all kinds of silly things, round numbers chief amongst them.

Certified Human Behavior Specialist, Business Coach, and Strategic Intervention Coach, Nicole Jansen has developed her own special brand of mentorship, which focuses on tapping into your strengths and true purpose, integrating business and life mastery principles for holistic success.

The purpose of #HRTechTank is to connect, educate and promote innovators in the Human Resource Management & Recruitment software space.

Compensation Committee rather than to management, although representatives of the firm may meet with members of management, including our CEO and executives in our Employee Success (human resources) department, for purposes of gathering information on proposals that management may make to the Compensation Committee.

I specifically stated that yours is simply one of many possible ways for a human to find meaning and purpose.

Aer you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and action of every human for the purpose of judgement when life ends?

@In Santa we trust - «Are you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and action of every human for the purpose of judgement when life ends?»

The purpose was — as we warned and the pro A. 2 debaters denied — to set the stage for state funding of Stowers and other efforts in the fields of ESCR and human cloning.

So when computer components fail, their purpose and data will be transferred to a newer component, same as generations of humans have done by passing down knowledge to their next generations.

His point is that he thinks it is completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings on the planet are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife».

Think of how elephants are now understood to be stupendous creatures made for purposes beyond human entertainment.

If «soon» is that different to God, and according to the Bible it is, then the statement is rendered essentially meaningless for purposes of human understanding.

And so we're charged with subordinating our technological accomplishments — wonderful displays of the freedom we have been given that are often won at the expense of nature — to properly human purposes.

Are you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and action of every human for the purpose of judgement when life ends?

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

The aim of work is to impress some temporary human purpose upon some component of the world; the aim of explanation is to reveal the world as it is and not merely in respect of its potential to satisfy human wants.

It allows cloning for the purpose of treating created human organism as a corn crop.

The view that we must «cook» the world to achieve God's purposes may stem from a confusion of the nature of human nature.

Theological Ethics and Technological Society» (May), is mistaken in his belief that technology will «liberate the human spirit» and achieve the «purposes of God.»

That would, of course, mean the creation solely for purposes of research of human embryos» human subjects who are not really best described as preimplantation embryos.

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

It inspired a host of special - interest groups to capture the moral force and prestige of the human - rights project for their own purposes.

You will run into trouble whenever you parcel out God's Word, rather than understanding the Bible as a progression of revelations and solution to the human condition, with the common thread and purpose of Jesus Christ running throughout from beginning to end, to further the glory of God.

In a 1989 interview published in the same issue of the Hastings Center Report in which Kass's tribute appears, Jonas said that his purpose was to examine «in precise philosophical and metaphysical terms the ultimate bases of morality and human destiny.»

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We can «liberate the human spirit» and achieve the «purposes of God» only by loving our neighbor as ourselves, with God's help.