Sentences with phrase «only human actions»

But not only human actions.

Not exact matches

Make it abundantly clear through words and actions that you are devoted to the community, and most likely you'll be amazed at the rash of new clients that will be willing to work with you because not only are they interested in your product, they like and respect you as a human being.

They can only persuade, convince, cajole, reproach, and hope to change the minds and actions of human beings.

Those actions require human effort only.

Most Western Christians, especially fundamentalists, define what it means to be human by the Original Sin, not the Original Blessing — which is not only unbiblical, but puts the emphasis on the human rather than Divine action.

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.

The value of human dignity, which takes precedence over all political action and all political decision - making, refers to the Creator: Only He can establish values that are grounded in the essence of humankind and are inviolable.

When we talk about the actions of Jesus we need to be careful because He has two natures — He is fully divine and fully human — even though He is only one, divine Person — God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity.

We are only human, fallible, and once our children grow up we can not be there 24 hours a day constraining their every action.

-LSB-...] charity is placed as a key link: divine charity works through human action, as a theological virtue -LSB-...] Man is not considered only as the object of a process, but as the subject of this process.

As in the human example, not only must the nature of the event be appropriate in order to have a special act of God, God's intention must also have a sufficiently large influence in determining the nature of the action.

The utilitarian takes account only of the amount of human happiness, or utility, that a given action will produce.

Personic action, he thought, is essential in defining personhood since acts of will are the only vehicles through which the «purposes and designs» of the human spirit can be established.

Not only are intentional human actions in large part given their specific shape and significance by their cultural «location,» but they are also guided by human interests that themselves have specific social, economic, and cultural locations.

For example a large and politically powerful portion of the worlds largest energy consumer denying not only the fact that climate change is happening, but that it even can happen as a result of the actions of humans.

Not only is there great promise in such programs for stimulating the poor to increase their own potential for dealing with their problems, (For stimulating discussions of how social action can help develop the human potential of those who participate, see the following articles: Peggy Way, «Community Organization and Pastoral Care: Drum Beat for Dialogue,» Pastoral Psychology, March, 1968 pp. 25 - 36; Rudolph M. Wittenberg, «Personality Adjustment Through Social Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 action can help develop the human potential of those who participate, see the following articles: Peggy Way, «Community Organization and Pastoral Care: Drum Beat for Dialogue,» Pastoral Psychology, March, 1968 pp. 25 - 36; Rudolph M. Wittenberg, «Personality Adjustment Through Social Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 - 92.)

Paul Knitter in his One Earth, Many Religions emphasizes the priority of «the dialogue of action» in response «to the widespread human and ecological suffering and injustice that are threatening our species and our planet» but he recognizes that «unless the voices of the mystic and the scholar are also heard, the conversation will lose its religious content or it will be turned into a tool for purposes that can only discredit all the participants.»

For precisely all that has been said can also be objected to the doctrine of the immediate creation of every human soul in the course of history, if this creation makes of God's action in a special manner a member of the chain of created causes, even if only in regard to a particular finite being, which in contrast to others and by its special individual and temporal features has no intra - mundane ground and basis.

So there was not only the God of Israel but also Christ the Lord, the «tabernacling» of God with us in a supreme action for human wholeness.

Occasionally, Hartshorne even speaks of a «besouled body,» but by such language he means only the probability of certain modes of action and experience that embody a given personality's characteristic traits.11 Consequently, he suggests that, when a person's body goes into a deep, dreamless sleep, the soul loses its actuality, only to regain it when the person awakens.12 Understandably, therefore, he disregards as inapplicable to his own view Gilbert Ryle's well - known caricature of Cartesian anthropological dualism as «the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine» — especially since Hartshorne denies that the human body is a «machine» in any materialistic, mechanical sense.13

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 any event, of all the theories which we may evolve concerning the end of the Earth, it is the only one which affords a coherent prospect wherein, in the remote future, the deepest and most powerful currents of human consciousness may converge and culminate: intelligence and action, learning and religion.

The constitution of a society prescribes the forms of justice only when it provides for that kind of interaction among individuals, and between individuals and the physical environment, which creates the human mind, and which sustains that scope of understanding, power of action and richness of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower animals.

Rather, such FWTs uniformly contend that since God can not control the free actions of humans in any given context, only some of the possible worlds containing human freedom (only some of the possible ways in which God saw humans might use their freedom) were actualizable and that God had absolutely no control over which possible worlds were in this category.

In my opinion, it is only those who care for the natural world for its own sake and for the sake of future human inhabitants who can guide us toward patterns of action that will be truly sustainable.

The second is only experienced when we humans take certain actions to change our thought patterns or behavior.

Of course, just what these implications do include at any given time and place is a variable, which depends not only on the actual circumstances of action but even more importantly on some understanding of the range of relevant interests and of the extent of human powers for realizing them.

In my own case, it was not only Tillich plus Troeltsch with his sometime roommate Max Weber and Adams with his colleague George H. Williams who were influential, but also Walter Rauschenbusch's use of the social analysis of his day to restate biblical themes; Reinhold Niebuhr's refutation in The Nature and Destiny of Man of Marx's, Kant's, Nietzsche's and Freud's understanding of human nature; Talcott Parsons's systematic study of the role of religious values in The Structure of Social Action; George Ernest Wright's exposition of the Prophets; and Masatoshi Nagatomi's gentle introduction to Asian modes of thought.

The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution was formed not only by the recognition that good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of humans as fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their fellows.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

Trump's action overturned a rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in December, only five weeks before President Obama left office.

From Wieman's point of view, I think, this doctrine not only lacked empirical justification, it also tended to move the source of human good further away from the range of human action.

Doctrine are those human lessons we've learned over time trying to live under Dogma, and are usually about the mistakes made along the way (doctrine only develops by human actions that caused additional suffering that didn't need to happen - doctrine is about teaching you NOT to do those things).

Excess, in human faculties, means usually one - sidedness or want of balance; for it is hard to imagine an essential faculty too strong, if only other faculties equally strong be there to cooperate with it in action.

We can understand another human being only as we see what he is moving toward, what he is becoming; and we can know ourselves only as we «project our potential in action.»

The common assumption was that there were only two truly human ways to life: the life of political action and the life of contemplation.

«We recognise that just as all truth rests in the Word of God, through whom all things were made and through Whom all thing will come to their completion, so too the construction of a true human ecology can only be achieved in relationship to the Word -LSB-...] we can see and sense the echoing of that eternally spoken Word in so much of the created world around us -LSB-... which Word is] expressed in all those actions and events which make up the history of salvation -LSB-...] we recognise most centrally that this eternal Word of God, in whom all things makes sense, finds flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth who then becomes its fullest expression and true presence in the world -LSB-...] the centre of true human ecology is the person of Christ.»

It is only because the human person is rational and free that can he take responsibility for himself, and so too, can be held responsible, both for himself and for his attitudes and actions.

While I have heard of the wonderous health benefits of Coconut oil and have been consuming such — my husband read Nutrition Action Newsletter, written by medical docs with PHD's, that stated that the human body only needs a small amount of Saturated Fat and it gave a graph of all the oils and their fat contents.

I just can not see Jesus hitting a child seems like only the action of a flawed human.

Patti Rundall of Baby Milk Action - IBFAN UK said: «If these proposals go ahead unchanged they can only bring discredit to the EU, a region that prides itself on its high levels of health safety and consumer protection, human rights and sensitivity to the developing world.

If I fucked up at work and my boss seriously went off on me, or if she told me I had to be separated from everyone else in the building for a while and told me where to go sit and that she would let me know when I could return and interact with other people, if she told me I had to accumulate a certain amount of «good» days or actions before I could get paid, if she had a certain set of rules and standards that applied to all the employees behavior but not to her own, and if she gave me the impression that she valued me as a human being only when I was following all the rules, I'm pretty sure I would tell her to go fuck herself.

Despite the known health benefits of breast - feeding, only 19 percent of black women are still breast - feeding at six months after giving birth, compared with 31 percent of white women, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» «Blueprint for Action on Breast - Feeding,» which urges women to breast - feed for a full year.

It was recently forced to adapt its whites - only membership policy while facing legal action from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

BY ANDY HUMM New York City and State are known for some of the strongest human rights laws in the country — though transgender rights have only been protected statewide since late last year when Governor Andrew Cuomo employed executive action to overcome the State Senate's long resistance on that score.

This suggested that a unilateral agreement would not be achieved despite strong evidence mounting from UN led investigation that arming the rebels is the only source of action to end «the worst human tragedy of our time».

Whereas AI relies on two newspapers to write its report on countries across the world, Global amnesty watch, will ensure that does not only visit scenes of incident but will go further to consider actions with existing legislature and in conformity with the Universal Convention on Human Rights», they revealed.

«In seeking your mandate to govern Enugu State, we firmly and sincerely acknowledge that poverty in our land has assumed such human disaster proportions that only radical economic and political actions can redeem the situation.

Jonathan condemned the action of some politicians who he accused of sending their own children abroad, only to recruit children of other people as thugs to fight and die during elections because of their unquenchable ambition, stressing that such acts were against human dignity.