To the extent that traditional conceptions of morality require a recognition of some salutary dependence upon nature, or of insuperable limitations
on human self - transformation, science must be understood as an outright rejection of them.
1830), Schleiermacher made a similar but quite different move, concentrating
on the human self - consciousness, which he determined to be characterized by «the consciousness of being absolutely dependent, or, which is the same thing, of being in relation to God.»
Not exact matches
Plus, all three firms rely, at least in part,
on self - reporting by individuals — making
human error a factor.
Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, is the flagship for the SpaceX vision of creating a permanent,
self - sustaining
human presence
on Mars — and yes, the name connotes more than just «Falcon» to those inside SpaceX.
BFR is the flagship for the SpaceX vision of creating a permanent,
self - sustaining
human presence
on Mars.
The Bets are also being told to be
self - sufficient administratively: They can rely
on Alphabet for functions like legal counsel,
human resources, and public relations, but only if they pay Alphabet for the services.
Proposed regulations would let companies test
self - driving cars
on public roads without a
human driver present.
Trojans are typically spread by social engineering - for example, by tricking people into clicking a link, installing an app, or running some email attachment - and, as such, unlike viruses and worms, Trojans typically do not
self - propagate - instead, they rely
on human involvement.
«Ultimately,
self - driving cars will be safer than
humans,» says Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
on «The Today Show.»
And during the years after that, we'll see both
self - driving cars and cars with
human drivers
on the road, as the former gradually replaces the latter.
Instant gratification turns into the need for constant progress, being
self - centered turns into the ability to relate to people
on a very basic,
human level — because we want their attention.
Lyft, whose current drivers are regular folks with a car who give rides for a fee, is betting that
self - driving cars will quickly eliminate people's need to own a car, as well as his company's dependence
on human drivers.
In other words,
self - driving vehicles would lead to fewer crashes, so
human drivers wouldn't have to spend as much
on car insurance.
Add to the mix a pesky
human habit of feeling guilt for shirking to - dos
on a never - ending list of
self - inflicted responsibilities — and voilà!
These surveys were conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll
on behalf of CareerBuilder among 2,321 hiring and
human resource managers ages 18 and over (employed full - time, not
self - employed, non-government) and 3,039 employees ages 18 and over (employed full - time, not
self - employed, non-government) between May 14 and June 3, 2015.
If a calamity,
self - made or otherwise, destroyed life
on Earth, as long as a
human colony was established elsewhere, the species could endure.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation at the Automotive Hall of Fame
on Friday allowing for the testing of
self - driving cars without a steering wheel, brake pedal, or
human in the front seat.
This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll
on behalf of CareerBuilder among 2,175 hiring and
human resource managers ages 18 and over (employed full - time, not
self - employed, non-government) between February 11 and March 6, 2015.
Self - comparison can be a strong influence
on human behavior, and because people tend to display the most positive aspects of their lives
on social media, it is possible for an individual to believe that their own life compares negatively to what they see presented by others.
SAN FRANCISCO — A
self - driving car flipped
on its side seems guaranteed to make
humans think twice about riding with a robot.
Self - driving cars have been involved in minor accidents, but nearly all have been blamed
on human motorists hitting the autonomous vehicle.
This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll
on behalf of CareerBuilder among 2,186 hiring and
human resource managers ages 18 and over (employed full - time, not
self - employed, non-government) between February 10 and March 17, 2016 (percentages for some questions are based
on a subset, based
on their responses to certain questions).
This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll
on behalf of CareerBuilder among 2,138 hiring managers and
human resource professionals and 3,022 workers (employed full - time, not
self - employed, non-government) ages 18 and over between February 10 and March 4, 2014 (percentages for some questions are based
on a subset, based
on their responses to certain questions).
This is the first time an autonomous vehicle operating in
self - driving mode has resulted in a
human death, and that has huge implications for the future of AVs and their use
on roads.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
on Wednesday announced the U.S. DOT is seeking public input
on policies to hasten the deployment of
self - driving trucks, buses and passenger cars, including vehicles that require no
human input to operate.
Other groups have also put forth proposals
on self - driving cars, including requiring the vehicles and even semi-automated systems to meet performance targets, greater transparency and data from makers and operators of the vehicles, increased regulatory oversight, and better monitoring of and engagement with
human drivers.
Automakers and tech companies rely
on human drivers to step in when necessary with
self - driving technology.
No amount of academic
self - service
on this topic or any other is going to erase the mindless cruelty inflicted
on millions of
human beings because of slavish devotion to these absurd prejudices.
Separate from greedy
self - serving religion, which is obfuscating any valid discussion
on the scientifically high probability of an intelligence we
humans could rightfully call «extra-terrestrial,» I would guess physicists would add God to your list of probability figures as follows:
If they would think of them
selves as
humans first they may be able to hold off
on killing for god.
So in that spirit, you can start realizing that it is the
human species which will go
on, if it doesn't become too
self - destructive.
Such conversions are likely to grow more frequent as
self - described «lovers of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations,
on the reverent love of
human life demanded by the doctrine of the Incarnation.
Seeing
human beings
on a daily basis making the transition from life to death, often in an acute context, lends it
self to the constant recognition of the transience of life.
To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave
humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is
self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely
on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.
The concept that every
human has a hang up
on God is the crap they shovel
on you at church to break down your
self - confidence and make you dependent
on their organization.
In speaking of the process of constant
self - creation, of our continuing need to «reconceive ourselves» — a gift of the Bard to
humans — he is echoing phrases that sprout from the lips of those who insist
on a «multiplicity of subjective positions,» «potential identities,» and the like.
That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations
on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free
human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of
self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no
self - determined beings (GPE 271).
This essay focuses
on the nature of
self - interest, and that is a different question than whether
self - interest is the only possible end of
human action.
Thus, for instance, the
self - conscious freedom of
human activity is made possible by the extremely complex order that it is privileged to appropriate, including the conditions which support life
on this earth and the complexity of the
human body.
Perhaps he oversimplifies the idea of
human will: the «Big Book» of AA indicts the alcoholic as «an extreme example of
self - will run riot,» the first requirement for recovery being that he becomes «convinced that any life run
on self - will can hardly be a success.»
We must be sober minded and not be «puffed up» with arrogance and
human «pride» based
on self edification.
The second expression of gnosticism rejected the existence of the soul and wallowed in the base materiality of the
human body, centring solely
on empty
self - pleasure and raw power.
And this similarity indicates that the
human, the only creature
on earth whom God willed for its own sake, can attain its full identity only in sincere
self - giving.»
Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for
human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is,
on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a
self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.
In a somewhat different vein, Tracy and Lash, while agreeing that the anthropic principle is untenable in science, find a certain kind of anthropocentrism appropriate in theology: (1)
human beings are both products of and interpreters of the evolutionary process; (2)
human beings are responsible for much of our world's ills: «if we are the «center» of anything, we are the center of «sin,» of the
self - assertive disruption and unraveling of the process of things, at least
on our small planet» (Tracy and Lash, 280).
And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame
human ignorance
on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of
self - revelation.
He is as
self - correcting a
human being as you will EVER find
on this planet.
Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to
human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of
self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based
on the value of
self - actualization.
Along with Erich Fromm (with whom she was associated at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and later in New York City) and with Adler, Rank, and Sullivan, she rejected Freud's compartmentalized conflict - centered, biologically reductionistic model of
human personality in favor of an emphasis
on the functioning of the
self as whole in its relational context.
Human beings are not
self - sufficient, ready to take
on the world all by themselves.