Sentences with phrase «of human purposes»

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

We may deliver our children into the world with tremendous technical power, but it is rarely with a well - developed sense of human purpose to guide its use.

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.

Governed by a «principle of immanence,» Kant's project makes God a servant of human purposes.

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.

The higher possibilities of human purpose emerge only because of the importance that previous human achievements have left to be appropriated.

Consequently, a science of the relations between human actions (e.g., an interpretation of political interaction) inescapably involves an ordering of human purposes, i.e., an evaluation of the supposed goods.

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

The Dalai Lama was speaking in London, where he is accepting the Templeton Prize, an award worth # 1.1 million ($ 1.74 million) which honors «outstanding individuals who have devoted their talents to expanding our vision of human purpose and ultimate reality.»

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.

We have to cultivate — holistically and whole - heartedly — our powers of imagination and creativity within a different paradigm 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.»

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.