Sentences with phrase «sense in a human context»

Not exact matches

None of these words would make any sense in the context of investment banking, where if a client wants to speak to a human banker, four of them hop on a plane and fly to the client's office the next day, never mind paying $ 10 for voicemail.

That's an indoctrinated belief placed upon a natural human reaction, just as much as the Hindu idea that good deeds only make sense in the context of people trying to improve themselves through reincarnation, isn't it?

In general, the counterproposals boast proportionality and restraint, and manage to impart a sense of grandeur without disregarding the surrounding landscape, historical context, or human visitors for whom the memorial is ultimately being constructed.

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Packer argues that the «biblical texts must be understood in their human context» while Donald Bloesch's christological hermeneutic emphasizes the need to go beyond the literal sense of the text to discern its larger significance.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

The Faith perspective sets human action within the context of an ecosystem, material (as used in the normal sense of the word by science) and spiritual (ignored or denied by western society).

That makes sense in the context of human understanding!

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

The idea is that grasping the hows and whys embedded in human knowledge (in the larger social context) results in a far greater sense of confidence and empowerment than instilling rote responses to likely standardized testing scenarios.

Not just in the sense of not responding to an unrecognised command, but also as the ability to recognise, in context, that an otherwise proper and usable directive from a human must be refused.

Zimmer: And yet, as central as consciousness is to our sense of being human, we mostly experience it in the context of our other quintessential trait, sociability.

«It is important to note that depression is a very complex disease and also defined in the context of modern human societies, so we certainly can't say that our ancestors or Neanderthals were depressed in the modern sense.

Therefore, common sense is required to interpret human nutrition studies in the context of nutrient composition of foods.

«Children have a right to books that reflect their own images and books that open less familiar worlds to them... for those children who had historically been ignored — or worse, ridiculed — in children's books, seeing themselves portrayed visually and textually as realistically human was essential to letting them know that they are valued in the social context in which they are growing up... At the same time, the children whose images were reflected in most American children's literature were being deprived of books as windows into the realities of the multicultural world in which they are living, and were in danger of developing a false sense of their own importance in the world.»

Discussing her work in the accompanying exhibition catalogue, writer Neal Brown concludes: Joffe has a «disorder» in the sense that, working within the often anti-intuitive context of contemporary art, she not only seeks the truth of human emotions, but does so with unfashionable compassion and humanity.

Needless to say, global warming from human CO2 emissions is an exceptional yawner, and is in no sense a current legitimate threat when viewed in the context of recent climate history.

It is valuing human life above all else and believing that all behavior makes sense in context.