Documented since at least the 1920s, induced seismicity also has been attributed to a number
of other human activities, including impoundment of large reservoirs behind dams, geothermal projects, mining extraction, construction and underground nuclear tests.
Yet a warning should be voiced against too unguarded an application of terms and viewpoints derived from the sociological study
of other human activities.
Not exact matches
These tools are most useful for traders because they allow us to look at price
activity in an objective way (without the
human error that is associated with
other types
of forecasts).
«In handling common stocks, as in most
other fields
of human activity, success depends on a combination
of hard work, intelligence and honesty» Phil Fisher
My main point has been to suggest that, apart from «work,» the
activity of using the world to satisfy
human wants, mankind has devised or stumbled upon
other activities and attitudes towards the world, the
activities I have grouped together as «play.»
It is a very helpful guide to the formation
of conscience with respect to questions raised in voting and
other political
activity if, in fidelity to the Church's teaching, one recognizes the «intrinsic evil»
of taking innocent
human life in abortion.
Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that
human beings should engage in an
activity that poses dangers to
others only if, in the totality
of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account
of the probability
of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.
The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology
of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence
of divine beings, divine
activity in history and nature, the purpose and destiny
of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to
others called «persons.»
Other social sciences, concentrating on certain limited kinds
of human activities, together afford a more detailed picture
of man's culture and social organization.
In
other words, economics as a
human activity is not ethically neutral and must be structured and governed in an ethical manner; that is, in accordance with the highest ends
of man.»
Others — a larger number — conclude that reason and religion occupy different «spheres»
of human activity and hence may never be in conflict.
Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2
Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activi
Other individuals, on the
other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activi
other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions
of the
human community's search for some kind
of meaning, an accumulated source
of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and
activities.
The resurrection
of Christ is a way
of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his
human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship
of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence
of his presence and
activity in the world.
If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk
of the resurrection
of Christ is a way
of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his
human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship
of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence
of his presence and
activity in the world.
The divine nature, like the divine
activity, must then be grasped as nothing
other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling
of human life has been made possible.
This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication
of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in
other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves
human activity.
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.
The
other possibility — and the one I believe makes much more sense and is more in accord with the biblical witness — is that in Jesus the energizing and indwelling
activity of God in
human creation reaches a climactic stage.
In an empirical observation
of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end
other than death.
Granted that religious forms and institutions, like
other fields
of human and cultural
activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics
of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion
of a social group and to the dynamics
of its development and history?
The Biblical writers do not understand social ethics in terms
of one or the
other of these
human values, but in terms
of the nature and
activity of God who demonstrated their interconnectedness and indissolubility.
In fact, some would say that there is no
human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our
activities; that the capacity to realize this structure
of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the
other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.
It is not especially illuminating to know that a
human being falling in a uniform gravitational field moves according to the law s = 1/2 gt2 — though such information might be
of vital importance to divers, high - wire walkers, parachutists, and
others engaged in
activities of the utmost gravity.
But like any
other important
human activity, faith has to achieve a measure
of conceptual clarity if it is to understand and express itself, and part
of that process is the development
of abstract concepts like Trinity, incarnation and substance.
Sometimes — and this is more in accord with what has been said in this book — it has been urged that every access to divine reality (however this may be conceived) which has been opened to men and women is nothing
other than the working
of the Self - Expressive
Activity of God which in Jesus, as we are convinced, is given focal statement in
human existence.
It is rather the next stage in the evolutionary advance on the planet Earth
of overwhelming importance to us
humans at this time, but perhaps only one among myriads given God's creative
activity on
other worlds.
Our extravagant use
of the earth's resources is now turning to wasteful exploitation, and our
human activities are causing many
other species to become extinct.
Here, the idea is not that the person in authority knows better than
other people, but that certain kinds
of human activity require the coordinated action
of many
human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to get such coordination is to set up one person to give directions to
others.
It soon becomes apparent that this response to God's saving
activity is, in part, not only the means
of achieving the goal
of Nicodemus and
other humans.
... A number
of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration
of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and
others) released mainly as a result
of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.
And that tradition dares to insist that the story which I have been telling in its
human and historical shape is the
other side
of another story — the story
of God's unceasing concern for and
activity in and upon the created order and more especially for, in, and upon the men and women whose existence is in that created order.
Conversely, a contemplative religio - cultural and ecclesiastical agenda for theology was preoccupied exclusively with the specificities
of the energy that flows from the God -
human encounter; it neglected the fertile
activity of God in the
other realms
of the world.
7 In discussing an earlier version
of this paper, Hall responded that while there might be some aesthetic quality associated with technology, the «difference
of degree» between this and the aesthetic character
of other modes
of human activity is so great as to constitute a «difference in kind.»
As necessary as its analysis
of the self as existence still seems to me to be to any anthropological reflection, the value
of this analysis as well as its limitations are more likely to be justly appreciated when it is viewed together with the
other post-Hegelian philosophies
of human activity that Richard J. Bernstein has so ably discussed in his book, Praxis and Action.
Even more perfectly than the
human soul with its field
of activity can be said to overlap the field
of activity proper to the brain and through the brain the
other interrelated fields
of activity within the
human body, so God as the soul
of the universe shares a common field
of activity with the universe as an all - encompassing social totality.9
Robert T. Miller examines the morality
of using unmanned robotic drones: Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that
human beings should engage in an
activity that poses dangers to
others....
In
other words, prayer is an «
other - regarding»
activity of the
human personality.
Like any
other human activity, art is not an absolute end in itself, but is ordered to and ennobled by the ultimate end
of man.»
The fact that the Christian passion for humanity may resemble
other forms
of humanism which appear to owe nothing to specific Christian origin or inspiration, and that humanists outside the Christian tradition can make a common commitment with Christians to enlarge and enhance the
human and humane, does not mean that these individuals» differing sources
of humanism are to be treated deprecatingly or indifferently; Christians will see in those sources evidence
of the radical freedom and the unpredictable
activity of the Logos, to which the Fourth Gospel first gave witness.
The notion that morality applies to individuals and not to governments is completely contrary to a central doctrine
of Reformed theology which is endorsed, in varying forms, by
other Christian traditions as well: that Jesus Christ is the Lord not just
of the church, nor
of a special sphere
of religious
activity, but
of all
of the natural and
human world.
But his control over the universe was regarded as quite limited;
other gods and goddesses were free to do pretty much as they pleased in the particular realms
of nature or
human activity over which they held jurisdiction.
This idea depends on developments in general systems theory, which views «all
of nature and all
of human activity as a hierarchically arranged structure
of levels
of interlocked subset systems in which the process
of any particular subset system affects and is affected by
other subset systems at its own level, as well as below or above it.»
The fact
of evil in the world and in
human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about
human existence as about the reality and
activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing
other than «pure unbounded love.»
Like all intellectual
activity it compares, abstracts, relates; by these means it seeks coherence in the manifoldness
of human experience, unified understanding
of the objects or the
Other in that experience.
What has been implied is the conviction that reflection and criticism form an indispensable element in all
human activity, not least in the
activities of the Church, but that such reflection can not be independent
of other activities, such as worship, proclamation, healing, et cetera.
Because
of commercial mining, chemical fertilizers and
other human activities that lead to increased pollution, arsenic levels around the world have increased.
Scintigraphy, which has been used for years in treating
humans, reveals more accurately than any
other diagnostic tool the precise location and extent
of the abnormal
activity.
Our favorite playtime guru, The Playground Games, is bringing giant cosmic fun along with Giant Kick Darts, Giant Dual Lane Slide, a 40 - foot dual lane obstacle course,
Human Bowling and plenty
of other interactive
activities.
As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's
human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base
of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and
other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that
human activity would be the cause
of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.
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