Sentences with phrase «there for human dignity»

But, what basis is there for human dignity if we are merely random meat machines living precariously between two abysses?

Not exact matches

There is no doubt that work, an adequate standard of living, health care, food, clothing, housing, and education are all human goods that are, as the Declaration says, «indispensable for [a person's] dignity and the free development of his personality» (Article 22).

This doesn't mean there still won't be differing callings, but we should commit to learning about and sympathizing with other fights for human dignity.

Ever since the Enlightenment there has been a progressive tendency to deny original sin as an offense to human dignity, and to promote experiments in reaching for divinity.

For example, there is the left - leaning «progressive» tradition that locates human dignity and progress as its central affirmations.

The Chinese people have recovered a sense of identity and dignity in the modern world, though there is much room for the ensuring of human rights within China especially in the civil and political spheres.

Typically messed up people and messed up middle class lives make an interesting story when there is no revenge for which one needs to make retribution, or when there is no obvious injustice to which human dignity requires courageous defiance in defense what is right.

For no one can prove that they don't, and there is no other way that we can vindicate human dignity and contrive a moral existence.»

And there is nothing controversial in the documents commitment to freedom and democracy throughout the world, to peaceful cooperation in international relations, and to «the nonnegotiable demands of human dignity; the rule of law; limits on the absolute power of the state; free speech; freedom of worship; equal justice; respect for women; religious and ethnic tolerance; and respect for private property.»

Toward the end of the Cold War, there was a strong consensus that we were fighting on the right side of a struggle — for human freedom, dignity, and prosperity — whose outcome would have profound consequences for the world's future.

And then there were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who grasped that the dignity of the human person was the battleground on which «the Church in the modern world» was contesting with various dangerous forces for the human future; who thought that coercion of consciences violated that human dignity; and who believed that the act of faith must be free if it is to be true, because the God of the Bible wants to be adored by people who freely choose to do so.

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

For in these acts there is preserved neither the dignity of love nor the dignity of the spouses as human beings created according to the image of God.

And so I wouldn't say it scares me, but I would say that there are going to be some really tough issues for society to deal with [regarding] where privacy and human dignity begin and the right of the larger group to protect itself ends.

Crucially for example, there was no reference to the fact that current levels of consumption both exceed the planet's physical capacity and leave millions of people below a threshold of minimum human dignity.

Is there anyone here who can produce a shread of human dignity, rather than groveling at the Pope's feet, begging for more funding for research into the heliocentric theory of celestial movement?

From there the group established a vision of advancing self - sufficiency and human dignity by providing safe, stable, well - designed tiny homes in a village setting for those who need them most.

«There are underlying values the Charter is intended to promote, and one of those values is the dignity for the respect of human beings,» he said, especially when it comes to those who are vulnerable.

Notably, the Court made it clear that there is no room for evidence that, by its nature, infringes human dignity and which does not have any probative value.

A lot of work had to be done along the way, such as giving women the right to vote, but there is so much more to do for human dignity and rights for all.