Sentences with phrase «on human capacities»

This makes Pantheon similar to DataViva, in the sense that it is a datascope that visualizes data on human capacities, albeit instead of focusing on the capacities that are expressed in industries — such as motorcycle manufacturing — Pantheon focuses on the capacities expressed in human accomplishments, such as Newton's theories or the songs of Elvis Presley.

Bob Holmes's article on the human capacity for language (5 April, p 11) features the work of researchers Jennifer Culbertson...

Not exact matches

Overall, the truce was a heartening case study in the nature of human beings and their capacity to wage war on one another.

«An amazing investigation into the world of competitive memorization that turns into an in - depth study on the capacity, and limitations, of the human mind.

While Sirius was wrought from Rothblatt's passions regarding the commercial capacities of outer space, today she is on the hunt for immortality, a pursuit that currently includes the creation of robots called «mindclones,» or digital replicas of human minds.

«If the president wants to make an immediate impact on Venezuela to stop these human rights abuses and restore the situation, he's got the ability to,» Hamm told Bloomberg in an interview in his capacity as head of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance.

Development of human capacity is the «key» to achieving substantially enhanced Return on Entrepreneurial Investment (ROEI) ROEI will only be maximized if human capacity development is a critical component of building entrepreneurship and leadership.

In terms of human love, on all levels and in general, we certainly all have this capacity for it and find it in many places.

The death - of - God school tells us that the picture of God we have just outlined, save for its inclusion of love and moral justice when modified by love, has died on those who have discovered the reality of human freedom, the human capacity to act significantly, and the responsibility we have for acting in freedom.

On our present information, for example, no creature other than humans provide evidence, anatomical or otherwise, of the capacity for speech.

However, human dignity is not based simply on our feelings but is linked to our radical capacity rationally to direct our actions.

Had God not lured the world on to the creation of beings with the capacity for conscious, rational self - determination, the distinctively human forms of evil on our planet would not occur.

Yet the capacity to split genes and atoms, and to effect the environment on a new scale and in grave ways, is only one reason human power — and its relation to divine power — has become a theological preoccupation.

The human capacity to author life and skip all over the genetic alphabet raises theological questions, just as does the human capacity to destroy life on a grand scale and actually put ourselves, for the first time, in a position to be uncreators.

It is also apparent that the recent evidence for self - consciousness in primates and cetaceans, based on their capacity for language use and deception, requires us to acknowledge that nonhuman capacities are somewhat closer to human capacities than Whitehead asserted.

Whitehead distinguishes human beings from animals on the basis of different capacities for the inhibition of symbolic reference.

Since the legitimacy of institutions of governance» be they democratic or otherwise» depends ultimately on their capacity and willingness to preserve and promote the common good by, above all, protecting fundamental human rights, the failure of the institutions of American democracy to fulfill their responsibilities has created what is truly a crisis.

If the teacher is «co-habiting» with another human being, male or female, same sex or other sex, without benefit of matrimony, how does that affect that person's capacity to teach with integrity on the Church's requirement of chastity and abstinence before marriage?

If systematized these would fall into three main types: the beauty, sustenance, and orderliness of nature on which our lives depend; social relations in the family, community, nation, and all our past which have nourished and fashioned us; and, less obviously but essentially, the human capacity of thought, feeling, and will by which to live and act as morally responsible beings.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

This is human power, chiefly techno - economic power, sufficient to outstrip earth's capacity to restore itself on terms hospitable to life as we know it.

Modern scholarship has revealed not only how much our capacity to be human depends on language and culture but also the extent to which all language (and particularly religious language) is symbolic.

Awakening to the fact that human activity overall was on a collision course with the capacity of the Earth to support human civilization was a terrible jolt.

Humanist: A system of thought that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their values, capacities, and worth.

Plato, on the dominant reading, posits a faculty in the soul to account for the human capacity for transcendence.

The human species can not make demands on the world that are beyond its capacity to supply.

This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.

Feelings of transcendence and their affect on individuals are a human capacity - they are not evidence, as many Christians propose in their testimonials, of a supernatural intervention.

Calvin's proof for the existence of the soul is the creative capacity of human beings, what they can make, what they can understand, what they can imagine and so on.

Alternatively, and in contrast to the first two positions, there is the view that value is rooted in a «moral universe» which can be at least fairly well known and approximated by man through his rational capacities; this moral universe participates in, yet in its fullness transcends, the actual shape of culture, history and human will; and the task of moral agents is to discover and act on the principles, laws and rules that this universe contains and reveals to the discerning moral conscience.

Young as the human species is, it displays remarkable capacities: to think and reason and imagine; to ask questions and seek answers; to use language, metaphors and symbols; to ponder the mystery of origins; to locate oneself on maps of meaning; to project ideals and seek their realization; to ask how one fits into the most inclusive scheme of things.

The word Adam is used more as a concept than as the name of a concrete human individual and is reserved for the human beings in their capacity of God's vicegerent on earth 58.

Traditional theological conceptions of human nature were turned inside out: each self was a «portal of the divine,» a natural repository of inborn qualities, capacities, and talents, not least of which was a disposition toward good will, kindheartedness, fair play, and so on.

There are signs that resources, one of which is the pollution absorption capacity of the planet, may not suffice for the five billion human beings already on the earth.

With de Lubac, and against postmodernity, the Church must restore to the human person a sense of the natural human capacity for the universal, and with it the possibility of an ennobling unity based on shared metaphysical truth rather than the negative peace of nonjudgmental tolerance.

Suppose that today the human demand on the environment is equivalent to only 5 per cent of the carrying capacity of the Earth, which is surely an underestimate.

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

his book Religion in the Secular City, «In our day while the fundamentalists attack all that is wrong with the modern soul, they almost never mention the advent of nuclear weapons with their capacity to end human life on the globe.

On St. Thomas's view, freedom is in fact the great organizing principle of the moral life — and since the very possibility of a moral life (the capacity to think and choose) is what distinguishes the human person from the rest of the natural world, freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

The focus generally has been on the individual as the basic unit of analysis, with human activity explained in terms of motives, personality, and social and cognitive traits and capacities.

They demonstrate human capacity to transcend the limits of life on the one hand and, on the other, remind us of the transitoriness of human existence within the confinement of space and time.

Since the legitimacy of institutions of governance — be they democratic or otherwise — depends ultimately on their capacity and willingness to preserve and promote the common good by, above all, protecting fundamental human rights, the failure of the institutions of American democracy to fulfill their responsibilities has created what is truly a crisis.

On the other hand, baptized children require rearing in the faith just as any child requires instruction in order to develop his or her human capacities.

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

The Christian life was not the keeping of a Law, leading to a series of minute obligations, «works» to obtain «grace», but rather a service to one another, and a waiting on the Spirit, faithful to the simplicities and demands, normally beyond human capacity, of humility and love.

In fact, one can detect the tension in their view of nature simply on Rousseau's grounds: nature is the seat of goodness but human beings are not constrained by it, characterized as they are by «infinite perfectibility», or the capacity for perpetual self - transformation beyond our natural condition.

In his response to the many fine commentaries on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of The Naked Public Square (November 2004), Richard John Neuhaus states that he would now write less about «transcendence» and more about the human capacity for reason, including moral reason.

Still, they believe in some human progress, and they emphasize human capacities for reflection on alternatives and choice among them — characteristics that mark them as realistic progressives.

Whenever the context requires especial precision I distinguish between the «human loves» meaning man's love for man, other creatures, the world, beauty, all the things which call forth our natural capacities for love, and «the love of God», meaning the gracious love which God gives to man and which takes on the special character of forgiveness and reconciliation.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.