Sentences with phrase «of practical action»

The questions and exercises are simple but will make you think about yourself, your professional value to employers, your successes, your brand, and all of the practical action items you must do to successfully execute a job search.

The questions and exercises are simple but will make you think about yourself, your professional value proposition, your successes, your brand, and all of the practical action items you must do to successfully execute a job search.

Dr. Melina Buckley rounds out the program with a discussion of practical action steps for closing the gaps and moving past the barriers identified.

«The opportunity this presents is just tremendous,» says Simon Trace, CEO of Practical Action.

In a world where social capital and a sense of connection to community are in decline, it is the taking of practical action

In her new book Action and Reflection Tools for Busy School Leaders, Pam Ryan provides a suite of practical action and reflection tools (ART) intended to support professional development and school development.

Release date 1st of June 2017 Action and Reflection Tools for Busy School Leaders is a suite of practical action and reflection tools (ART) intended to support professional development and school development.

Instead, theological education in this area consists of shaping «the will, the heart, which is the mainspring of practical action for justice in the world» (187).

In the beginning works can not save a man; in the end a man is saved for works The initial movement is a casting oneself on God; the steady progress is an ethical advancement, and in a pagan society James was right, for the Gospel which wins men is the Gospel of practical action which demonstrates that men are redeemed.

In the twentieth century, several religious teachers have stressed the interconnectedness of the life of prayer and contemplation and that of practical action.

In the same way, if we continue to speak of revelation as historical, it is not only in the sense that the trace of God may be read in the founding events of the past or in a coming conclusion to history, but in the sense that it orients the history of our practical actions and engenders the dynamics of our institutions.

The Toolkit for Action provides a range of practical actions, resources and country examples.

Subsidence can have a significant impact on the potential sale of the property and the building insurance required, so understanding the risk, and being aware of the number of practical actions possible to reduce it is invaluable knowledge.

Direct modification involves the undertaking of practical actions to influence the situation directly (e.g., to change a solving strategy when one realizes that the current one isn't working).

Not exact matches

Of course, firing all employees and doing away with your suppliers isn't an option, but consolidating positions and revising or terminating employee / supplier contracts is certainly a practical course of actioOf course, firing all employees and doing away with your suppliers isn't an option, but consolidating positions and revising or terminating employee / supplier contracts is certainly a practical course of actioof action.

ACLU attorney Joshua Block said the main practical impact of the decision is that it would prevent the Obama administration from carrying out administrative enforcement actions against schools on transgender issues.

Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

Under the model of such a «patient - centered medical home,» for instance, health care providers could give people practical (and personally tailored) advice on the «next best action» they may be able to take in order to improve their health, perhaps by improving their diet or boosting how much exercise they get.

With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

The networks offer a range of practical ways for businesses to work together and take action to help tackle some of the key issues facing society.

But for practical purposes it is now the increase of goods and services rather than the good of humanity as defined in any other way that governs policy and action.

What practical theology must provide is an understanding of how faith can guide action in contemporary circumstances.

Aristotle wrote that the criterion of good moral action is not a principle or a law so much as «the man of practical wisdom» ¯ that is, the person in your environment who habitually makes the wisest and bravest decisions of anyone else you know.

Firstly, we understand our actions to have absolute moral value, above and beyond their practical usefulness, and irrespective of whether we get found out!

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

He was willing to settle for what he called «practical absolutes, «27 that is, visions of the mind or idealizations which, at any given time, had the value of an ultimate directive in decision or action, but which were clearly to be understood as being a piece with man's own nature and experience.

I am motivated by practical human concerns and often find that the added layer of theism / atheism is a barrier to positive action.

It is not that those principles are contradicted by the actual concrete economy — that is not the question at the moment — but the formal abstract character of the principles is becoming increasingly evident, and so is the fact that a concrete model and a clear guide for practical action can not be derived from them.

provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality.

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

Provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 468 - 469).

Whitehead insists that this practical assumption of all action, deepened in religious experience, must be accounted for in an adequate cosmology.

Cobb also points out that «particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 351) leads not only to theoretical problems for theodicy, but to practical problems in the church, «because particular providence has often been appealed to as justification for many actions on the part of believers that are disruptive of the healthy life of the church» (TIP 14).

At some point we need to gather ourselves and venture practical judgments in favor of this or that course of action.

Given his early Marxism as well as the influence of Collingwood and Wittgenstein, it should not be surprising that MacIntyre grew to find in Aristotle's account of the virtues and practical reason an understanding of the conditions necessary for our actions to be intelligible.

Those chapters reflect the arguments MacIntyre had been developing against behaviorist and deterministic accounts of action, as well as his development of Wittgenstein's distinction between description and explanation — all of which is crucial for the constructive account After Virtue gives of practical reason and the virtues.

A focus on his accounts of action and practical reason reveals that his fundamental perspective has been remarkably consistent.

I'm not saying you're wrong — just trying to sustain conversation (I call it converse action, my idiocy) on how we talk about ultimate matters on the one hand, practical matters on the other hand, rationality and irrationality, logic, analogic and illogic, belief (bias), faith (by virtue of the absurd).

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.

In this way, I should like to signal what I myself sense to be a significant shift in my recent thinking: from being preoccupied for the most part with theoretical questions of belief and truth to giving greater attention to the practical issues of action and justice that likewise have their basis in the underlying concern for freedom.

He developed a practical solution, one that appeared not to be based on any piece of knowledge, and one that required that he believe what almost none of his contemporaries (except, possibly, his father) believed: that beliefs are founded largely on individual actions and interests rather than on evidence, reason, or worldviews.

We must consider the history of our past relation to it, its strengths and weaknesses, and the practical effects of taking particular actions.

There is an increasing attempt by churches belonging to different confessional families, groupings of those oriented in a particular theological direction, or even by individual churches themselves, to engage in bilateral or multilateral dialogues, where specific issues regarding the doctrines and practices that continue to be both theological and practical irritants, like the practice of Baptism or the existence of mixed marriages are discussed, analysed and debated, and attempts made to produce consensus documents for further study and action.

He also contrasts the Western concepts of knowledge (in the instrumental or practical sense) and action with ideas derived from Taoist thought.

A major component lacking in this discernment of historical and current mission goals as they actually operated in practical situations is the consideration of the voices and actions of local people who came into contact with missionaries in each place.

Hall finds support for his claim that theoria and technological practice, contemplative knowledge and action as the quest for greatness, should be sharply distinguished and separated, in Whitehead's distinction (in The Function of Reason) between the speculative and practical uses of reason, the reason of Plato and the reason of Ulysses (UP 231; cf. FR Chapter 2).

They lead us to resist any reduction of moral action to volition guided by practical reason alone, for the same tendencies and needs also enter into the motivation of action.

At the same time, the other theologies that have contributed most to explicating and justifying the metaphysical implications of the Christian witness seem to have been typically preoccupied more with theoretical questions of belief and truth than with practical issues of action and justice, and so have contributed only indirectly to clarifying and answering our central question.

Practical reason is the effort to devise an immediate course of action which Ulysses shares with the foxes.8 By this definition, reason is not unique to people.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity