Sentences with phrase «of rational purposes»
Our culture has turned our bodies into instruments for the effecting of rational purposes.
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«If the purpose of the religious employer exemption is, as HHS states, to respect the anti-abortifacient tenets of an employment relationship, then it makes no rational sense — indeed, no sense whatsoever — to deny March (for) Life that same respect.»
This is cargo cult engineering, where things are included not for any rational purpose, but in order to imitate the rituals of Bitcoin.
It seems possible to conceive of a natural order which, like ours, would make moral and rational life possible, but, unlike ours, would not contain features so alien and frustrating to the purposes of the very moral activity it supposedly makes possible.
theology's purpose is to give a «rational account of the truth of faith,» as Pannenberg stated in his essay «Faith and Reason» (Basic Questions in Theology, Volume 11 [Fortress, 197 11, pp. 52 - 53).
Yet many do, regularly, and with purpose: They are uninterested in a rational discussion about the issue, but rather at any cost want to achieve their goal of full legal and social affirmation.
By «fully rational» I mean achieving coherence or self - consistency (which, for the purposes of this essay, I equate), having no beliefs that contradict other beliefs or logical deductions therefrom.
Is it more rational to believe the intricate design and incomprehensibly balanced fine tuning of our universe happened by chance, or that an intelligent agent designed it for a purpose?
Although his prescriptions were regarded as odd, his descriptions of the new age as informed with secular beliefs in progress through the rational, scientific organization of societies, for the purpose of ever increasing industrialization and ever new technologies of control, was very typical of modernity.
The bigots will always be blind, but CNN should know better, and should offer an apology to its rational readers and agree it will not pick headlines for the purpose of merely generating the web - traffic of bigots (they already have websites they can visit for their verison of the truth).
According to Ayn Rand, The pursuit of man's own rational self - interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
A rational choice reading of Mother Teresa helps us understand that her vaunted love for the poor had another purpose: «Aiding the poor purchased direct contact with Christ....
On this novel account, same - sex sex acts were wrong not because they spurn the rational - animal purpose of sex — namely the family — but rather because the desire for these actions allegedly arises from a distasteful psychological disorder.
In summary, he defines rational religion as»... religion whose beliefs and rituals have been reorganized with the aim of making it the central element in a coherent ordering of life — an ordering which shall be coherent both in respect to the elucidation of thought, and in respect to the direction of conduct towards a unified purpose commanding ethical approval.»
What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness of feeling when His name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say) of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»
Religion should connect the rational generality of philosophy with the emotions and purposes springing out of existence in a particular society... [it] is the translation of general ideas into particular thoughts, particular emotions, and particular purposes; it is directed to the end of stretching individual interest beyond its self - defeating particularity.»
Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.
In terms of decision - making, the description of System 2 bears a close resemblance to the rational, general - purpose processor presupposed by standard economic theory.
But a wise inner knowing, that part of you I call your Inner Pilot Light, will be so comforted by the fact that you're finally on the path to your purpose that you may feel unusually calm — until your rational mind kicks in.
Do, at least for the purposes of rational scientific investigation.
She materializes to remind Darwin that she shared his inquisitive rational mind, and also that nothing in science explains the purpose of her life, her death, his broken heart.
«We are joining the Rational Funds family because of a shared sense of purpose in delivering what we believe to be distinct, alternative and rational products to the market,» commented Craig Van Hulzen, CEO at Van Hulzen Asset ManagemeRational Funds family because of a shared sense of purpose in delivering what we believe to be distinct, alternative and rational products to the market,» commented Craig Van Hulzen, CEO at Van Hulzen Asset Managemerational products to the market,» commented Craig Van Hulzen, CEO at Van Hulzen Asset Management, LLC.
Since ample evidence exists to establish a rational relationship between the city's classification of certain dogs as pit bulls, and since there is a legitimate governmental purpose of protecting the health and safety of the city's residents and dogs, the trial court correctly concluded that the ordinance did not violate the dog owners» right to equal protection of the laws.â $
A more rational explanation is that the developers of Final Fantasy VII only showed the audience what was necessaru for purposes of plot.
It is clear to any rational outside observer it had one purpose — to be used to promote the authors advocacy of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming — and to demean and denigrate those who do not believe as he does.
The purpose of this expanded paper is to outline a rational, evidence - based set of criteria for industrial wind turbine siting in rural communities, using:
We stress that determining appropriate coverage of labour laws requires rational and pragmatic reasons for treating people differently which go beyond legislative classifications to the purposes of the specific law.
A new blog, Law Firm Diversity, describes its purpose as promoting a rational discussion about the so - called business case for law firm diversity: that «the creativity and problem - solving ability of a group is a function of diversity.»
All that is required is the statute, an understanding of its purposes and a rational line of thought from purpose to «coverage».
If the purpose of a law firm is to make loads of money for its owners, then a rational strategy for such a firm will set out to do just that.
When the law is being turned against its original and still - admirable purpose, it may be time to reform the law, rather than rail against those taking advantage of the law in the manner of rational economic actors.
One such principle, long recognized by the Court, is a prohibition on arbitrariness, understood as the absence of a rational relationship between a law's purpose and its effect.
The purpose of the hard fork was a more rational distribution of payments for resource - intensive calculations, which led to the elimination of the favorable conditions for attacks that were previously conducted on ETH and ETC..
This is cargo cult engineering, where things are included not for any rational purpose, but in order to imitate the rituals of Bitcoin.
We consider this not rational or ecological, that's why we've implemented a concept where the heat from computing operations is used for peaceful purposes of warming houses.»