Sentences with phrase «on human terms»

He doesn't want us to be able to do a cost / benefit analysis on human terms.

By movie's end, we're not quite sure who we should be cheering for, which reminds us that on human terms, no one wins a war.

It is far more important that we should realize that we are seeing God living life on human terms; God, in Dorothy Sayers's memorable phrase, «taking His own medicine.»

The tower and the city are misguided attempts to achieve unity on human terms rather than on God's terms.

Not exact matches

Numerous studies over the past decade have revealed the devastating long - term impact that football can have on the human brain.

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

As I argue in a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Law Journal, there are cases in which we should think not in terms of the rights the corporation should enjoy, but in terms of the appropriate limits to be placed on the corporation, understood as a tool for achieving human objectives.

It will be a war more serious in terms of human suffering than anything we've seen since 1953,» Mattis said, also noting the danger to the heavily - populated South Korean capital of Seoul: «It will involve the massive shelling of an ally's capital, which is one of the most densely packed cities on earth.»

Humanity must also shift from its short - term, regional outlook that denies humans» impact on the Earth to a multigenerational and global outlook that consciously accepts its crucial role in Earth's fate.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

On the other hand, the investor known as the Oracle of Omaha predicted that AI and automation could create «huge problems in terms of democracy» as we know it, as people attempt to adjust to an economy that needs far fewer human workers to be just as productive.

What it says in human terms is, «if you raise money after me at a cheaper price than I paid I get a discount on the investment that I'm making now.»

We also take action on any accounts we find that violate our terms of service, including asking account owners to confirm a phone number so we can confirm a human is behind it.

«Liberalism, socialism, and pragmatism may all be termed optimistic in the sense that they are all premised on the idea that the application of reason to human social and political conditions will ultimately result in the melioration of these conditions.

Unless Congress acts on a new plan that would subject anyone who kills those animals for human consumption to a jail term and up to a $ 2,500 fine.

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A market for lunar services is already emerging and while some companies are focused on developing longer - term plans to return humans to the lunar surface, there are also many companies with nearer - term needs for lunar services.

Despite human rights concerns, Azerbaijan today is tolerant and secular and very much open for business — on its own terms.

I have learnt in the short to medium term, markets tend to move on human emotion, not fundamentals, this is what presents the opportunities.

The philosophical significance of his own attitude to transgenderism seems lost on him: Transgenderism raises fundamental questions about the nature of the human person — indeed, about whether one can even speak in terms of human nature anymore in any universal, meaningful sense.

Regardless of which name she uses to spew her crap, I thank her for continuing to provide a fantastic example of the long term effects of ultra-belief on the human brain.

As Mary Ann Glendon explains, the human - rights tradition is founded on «human dignity» and cognate liberal terms.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

And while it's an overstatement to narrate conversion in terms of a change in nature — Abram's becoming Abraham doesn't imperil the integrity of his human nature; nor still Sarai's becoming Sarah, or Jacob's Israel, Saul's Paul, and so ever on — equally slippery is gross understatement, or intimating that nothing of metaphysical interest happens upon conversion.

For it expresses his certainty that there is good in human nature» good that calls for earnest entreaty on its own terms.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

One warning on the use of the terms is in order: theologically the term, creation, does not refer only to the nature, but the whole creation, human and otherwise.

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 author, for example, places a good deal of weight on undefined terms like «the international community,» and reposes many of his hopes for the future of human rights on?

Otherwise they will be like indolent workmen who find no spur to action in a task to be achieved; or else, if a healthy human instinct overrides their hesitancies or the fallacies they derive from a misunderstanding of religion, they will still be a prey to a fundamental division and frustration within themselves, and it will be said that the sons of heaven can not, on the human level, compete with true conviction and therefore on equal terms with the children of this world.

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer popularized «speciesism,» a derogatory term for the belief that it is acceptable to treat humans differently from animals based solely on species membership.

Spanning the entire spectrum of creation, whether in terms of sex, politics, or religion, Christians affirm that God is speaking through the law written on human hearts, with individual consciences picking up the signals, either accusing or excusing them, until that day when God will finally judge all things by the criterion of Jesus Christ (Romans 1:15 — 16).

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

Sir Rudolf Peierls, another leading twentieth «century physicist, said, on the basis of quantum theory, «The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being... including its knowledge, and its consciousness, is untenable.

Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the affairs of human life, but specifically in terms of what God has effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of human beings.

The words from Psalm 118 «Suscipe me, Domine» (receive me, Lord) are sung by those making profession as a monk or nun, and the teaching offered here on the nature of vows speaks to anyone who sees their human journey in terms of vocation.

In human and spiritual terms the focus on the family for any struggle between conflicting worldviews is obvious since it is here that cultural and religious values are primarily passed on.

It is possible, as we have seen, to restate in nonmythological terms the New Testament teaching on human existence apart from faith and in faith.

«In a first phase, the attention of this discipline was oriented, rather, to problematic situations within society -LSB-...] With the theological emphasis, John XXIII treats more decisively the question of all this in terms of the human person -LSB-...] John Paul II then reinforced this -LSB-...] In the logic of this Encyclical, we find then a further stage, perhaps a third phase in the reflection on social doctrine.

It could be pointed out that the Church's magisterium can establish what are termed «dogmatic facts», that the Church can infallibly know that a particular human being is in heaven, and so on.

Thus, while the idea behind the terms «event» and «activity» may be basically the same, the shift may have indicated a growing concern that the stress be laid on the human role in the growth of value.

God doesn't create us in sin; He creates us in the curse, that is, frail and human and (in Pauline terms) «of the flesh» (cf. Rom 7 - 8) but we then act on this frailty and break God's holy law, which, once again, renders us sinful.

The way of distinction, therefore, puts a positive valuation on the time - space continuum and, though it sees divine redemption as the remaking of history into something new, it can not conceive of divine - human interaction in other than historical terms which preserve the qualitative difference between God and man.

Here in Christ is a focal manifestation in human life of God the creative reality, a manifestation in terms of action — and that action is on our human plane and in our human situation, speaking to our human condition.

The theologians of hope, on the other account, pushed the collective aspects of human life; they analyzed human solidarity in oppression and expressed faith in political terms.

I also believe that all humans on earth are equal in terms of base human value, created by God.

Recent papers on process thought and feminism have used the term «androgynous to depict the range of maleness / femaleness expressed in both humans and God.1 In a similar sense, «gynandrous» has been proposed.2 To be sure, the aim is to capture, by means of an appropriate term, the rich texture of human differences, that one is neither strictly «female» or «male» but a creative combination of the qualities historically assigned to both.

In the West, human freedom has not, of course, always been understood in terms of individual autonomy (cf. the thought of St. Augustine and John Calvin on this point); and there is some evidence that the modern individualistic understanding of freedom is fundamentally responsible for some of our present cultural difficulties.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

The society's «failure» to put homosexuality on a moral par with heterosexuality is not a result of homophobia, as that term is now recklessly used, but of a human refusal to accept the end of history.