Sentences with phrase «reaches of human possibility»

The more fully fleshed - out pieces are exciting as images that metaphorically embrace the further reaches of human possibility, from death and decay of the body to the mind's experience of transcendental beauty.

Not exact matches

Many of the authors take seriously Francis Fukuyama's claim that, with the elimination of communism as a social and political possibility, human history has reached a sort of terminus.

Just as Republicans may be accused of ignoring their responsibility to the poor and oppressed, so you are guilty of choosing to ignore the possibility that we may have a greater responsibility to humankind — a responsibility to promote a culture of life, instead of death, a culture in which every human life is valued and allowed to reach its full potential.

The other possibility — and the one I believe makes much more sense and is more in accord with the biblical witness — is that in Jesus the energizing and indwelling activity of God in human creation reaches a climactic stage.

For a human being — or even a proto - human being — as for any human child, the possibility of choosing for oneself lies always within reach.

Drawing on Newton's own works and the words of his contemporaries, the Newtonian Moment reveals a man who reached «the acme of human possibility» while remaining, nonetheless, just a little creepy.

While the benefits of technology's expanding reach are abundant, many serious thinkers — including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates — have expressed fundamental concerns about the possibility that machines could come to exceed human capacity for thinking.

Writer / director Luc Besson directs Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, an action - thriller that examines the possibility of what one human could truly do if she unlocked 100 percent of her brain capacity and accessed the furthest reaches of her mind.

The contribution to the improvement of the possibilities of the practical use of such dogs in the relationship between humans and dogs, seems to have reached its maximum point: the German shepherd is used as a police dog, anti-drugs dog,, specialist in tracking down delinquents, old people and lost children, etc..

On the one hand we have decoded human DNA, bringing within reach the possibility to prolong life indefinitely; on the other hand we have seen the transformation of industrial countries into leisure societies and the simultaneous exploitation of the Third World as a depot of cheap labor and manpower, where time is still a negotiable commodity.

While I am pretty sure IPCC won't repeat the silly mistake of projecting global warming of 0.2 C per decade for the next two decades (as it did in AR4), it will be interesting to see whether or not IPCC modifies its AR5 report to include the possibility of continued global cooling over the next two or three decades despite unabated human GHG emissions and concentrations expected to reach new record levels.