Sentences with phrase «terms of human action»

7 The argument may be rephrased in terms of human action.

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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.

Happiness has been explored in terms of the relations between humans and their past, the objection goes, while the relation of human action to the future has been ignored.

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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.

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.

This is in fact a resurgence in other terms and with other objectives in view — of the error always committed by Christians who intervene in the sphere of human actions to justify them and to testify that in the end man has good reason for doing what he does.

From his birth to his death and beyond... Jesus translates the logic or meaning or pattern or heart of God into terms we humans can understand: skin and bone, muscle and breath, nerve and action.

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 point is that remarks about the potentially distorting and demonic effects of actions» locatedness do not need to be added extrinsically, as it were, to analyses of human inquiry — here theological inquiry in particular — cast in terms of «action»; such remarks are entailed in the very concept of action.

If philosophers are persuaded that they must give an account of human nature, and, ultimately, responsible human action, in terms of Whiteheadian actual entities, societies, and the like, I am sure they will produce some ingenious constructions.

But I do not labor under the misapprehension that the human self can be adequately understood by holding exclusively to discourse in terms of action.

It is more about human characters doing whatever it takes under extreme circumstances to stay alive in terms of «action film» techniques.

A priori (by «dichotomic» analysis of the various outlets theoretically offered to our freedom of action) as well as a posteriori (by classification of the various human attitudes in fact observable around us), three alternatives, together forming a logically connected sequence, seem to express and exhaust all the possibilities open to our assessment and choice as we contemplate the future of Mankind: a) pessimism or optimism; b) the optimism of withdrawal or the optimism of evolution; c) evolution in terms of the many or of the unit.

However, the term «sustainability» is used especially in reference to how human actions affect the health of the natural environment.

But he believes that such images and concepts can acquire fresh meaning if considered in terms of the Whiteheadian understanding of Jesus as our model of what it means to overcome the common divergence that we as humans experience between that course of action which God presents to us and that course of action we find ourselves naturally wanting to follow (104).

The latter is concerned primarily with a mere fragment of human behavior, our «economic» actions, those which can be quantified in terms of money.

Jesus is presented as the fulfilment of natural human potentialities, with his «divinity» understood not in ontological terms but in relation to his divinely inspired response to God by which he became the brightest manifestation of God's action in human life.

The reason we need to make room for this conviction is that it is basic to «the whole framework of intentional psychology;» in terms of which we ordinarily explain human behavior «We standardly explain actions by... providing «reasons for which» we did what we did; and... it is difficult to evade the conclusion that the explanatory efficacy of reasons derives crucially from their causal efficacy» (SM 287).

For instance, Phillip Berryman writes in Commonweal, the liberal Catholic journal, about the human costs of the U.S. action, and why it may turn out to be a failure in the long term.

Without this affirmation, as he pointed out, all of our ordinary, commonsense explanations of human action, in terms of beliefs, desires, and decisions, are undermined.

To speak so does, I think, demand a high measure of participation in its story, and an effort to understand it first in its own terms — to grasp the Old Testament's own fundamental assertion that its story from beginning to end is the account of the historical action of God seeking the reconciliation of man and God, the human and the divine, the creature and the Creator.

Chapter three sets forth Polkinghorne's trademark proposal that God's action in the world be modeled on the concept of human and divine agency through «holistic causal principles of a pattern - forming kind,» summarized in the term «active information.»

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.

God's abiding purpose for humankind is that in response to divine action we should realize our intended humanity as human lovers — in the richest, broadest, and most responsible sense of the term.

Rather, the contrast term was some other way of understanding, having to do with guiding human action («practical» understanding) and with making things («productive» understanding).

Watford, westbrom, but to be honest i do nt blame losses on officials we get 90 mins to win games bit i think across the league its been poorer this year more than previous esp.linesman decisions i end up watching more than just the arsenal games but arsenal is where my heart and loyalty lies and its been week in and week across the league this year on officials i understand close offsides and fouls here and there cause football has a tremendous gray area in terms of constant action but linesman have missed multiple offsides by 5 yards and more and the consistency hasnt been there one week a call is this way next week the call is the other way but i am going to stop going on about officials as of now as you said and i agree its down human error an apart of the game

The actions of these «hostile neighbors» have severe consequences for weak states in terms of security, economic growth and human well - being.

«The interesting part is that you can see a clear analogy between these actions in the sheep's faces and similar facial actions in humans when they are in pain — there is a similarity in terms of the muscles in their faces and in our faces,» said co-author Dr Marwa Mahmoud, a postdoctoral researcher in Robinson's group.

• There is massive evidence that we are already suffering the negative effects of human - induced climate change; yet some argue that action to tackle climate change could be postponed since it would only happen in the long - term.

By calling the film Predators the filmmakers are evoking the relationship between the original Alien film and its sequel Aliens by implying that Predators is the rightful follow - up film to Predator and promises to up the ante in terms of action and the number of creatures for the human characters to contend with.

District 9 is not only an action thriller, but a thought provoking critique on our own culture that can't be ignored as the Aliens or Prawns (derogetory term given to them by the humans) play a much larger emotional and dynamic role in the film than the trailer or bits of viral marketing let on.

This is a great achievement in terms of protecting vulnerable populations, in terms of human rights education and action, as well as the development of the ever improving human rights legal instruments and implementations procedures.

The impact of these hazards is often strongly influenced by human actions that contribute to disaster risk and long - term changes in the global climate; therefore, the causes of these hazards and disasters related to them are often less than «natural».

Here for the first time in modern psychology, I think it is fair to say, there has appeared at least an approach to a theory of the human personality as a system, in both its cross-sectional and its temporal aspects of extension, with both cognitive and motivational emphases and couched in terms of the action frame of reference.

This book delves into the anatomy and evolution of the human brain to explain why we do the things we do even if those actions do not make rational sense and may actually harm us over the long term.

Certainly the field of human actions tends to operate in probabilistic terms.

Macfarlane warns that «we have become titanic geological agents, our legacy legible for millennia to come» in an attempt to urge human beings to consider the implications of our actions in terms of «deep time» — beyond the here and now.

Over the weekend, I posted and alerted senior members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Friday.

Human action which is not respectful of nature becomes a boomerang for human beings that creates inequality and extends what Pope Francis has termed «the globalization of indifference» and the «economy of exclusion» (Evangelii Gaudium), which themselves endanger solidarity with present and future generatHuman action which is not respectful of nature becomes a boomerang for human beings that creates inequality and extends what Pope Francis has termed «the globalization of indifference» and the «economy of exclusion» (Evangelii Gaudium), which themselves endanger solidarity with present and future generathuman beings that creates inequality and extends what Pope Francis has termed «the globalization of indifference» and the «economy of exclusion» (Evangelii Gaudium), which themselves endanger solidarity with present and future generations.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

It may be helpful to use a different term to refer to people whose actions indicate a high degree of certainty that they are not genuinely interested in developing a continuously improved best understanding of what is going on, motivated by a resistance to the changes of human activity that is required by that improved understanding.

Short - term adaptation and mitigation includes predicting extreme events, while long - term actions include modelling the impact of air quality or ozone layer on human health.

In that world, you would be reading those stories because humans would generally understand and take seriously the probable longer term consequences of their actions.

This action is in response to growing pressure from environmental organizations, animal welfare groups, and others concerned about the long - term effects of using antibiotics important for human medicine in such large quantities.

All of SE Asia Coral Gone by 2100, Millions» Food Supply at Risk In terms of direct human impact, and in just one region of the world: A recent report by WWF shows that without strong action to prevent it, by 2100 all the corals in the so - called «Coral Triangle» of Southeast Asia could be wiped out, causing a decline of food production in the region of 80 %.

If his actions continue in the same direction, during Pruitt's term at the EPA the environment will be threatened instead of protected, and human health endangered instead of preserved, all with no long - term benefit to the economy.

Immediate Need: The Committee learned from its hearings that there is an immediate need to clarify certain legal terms used under the Canadian Human Rights Act, and to clarify procedures of «class action» as they relate to complaints made to the Human Rights Commission.

Actions aimed at the incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity, abasement of human dignity, and also propaganda of the exceptionality, superiority, or inferiority of individuals by reason of their attitude to religion, national, or racial affiliation, if these acts have been committed in public or with the use of mass media, shall be punishable by a fine in the amount of 500 to 800 minimum wages, or in the amount of the wage or salary, or any other income of the convicted person for a period of five to eight months, or by restraint of liberty for a term of up to three years, or by deprivation of liberty for a term of two to four years.

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