And it means that faithful Catholics who believe in colorblind equality before the law, the dignity and
value of every human life at all stages and in all conditions, marriage rightly understood, and an ethic of love that recognizes the truths built into us by the Creator and confirmed by reason will be considered... well, deplorable.
Not exact matches
«The
value is that employees can understand what is expected
of them and what they can expect from the company,» adds Paul Rowson, managing director
at World
at Work, a global
human resources association that focuses on compensation, benefits, work -
life, and integrated total rewards.
The
values to care the
human and the natural
life are destroyed by the logics
of the profit and survival
at all costs.
Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique,
life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive
at the expense
of the dignity and
value of our fellow
human beings or our planet.
So the knowledge imparted was
at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal
human values, and the humanism
of the person
of Jesus - but with search for the unity
of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal
of personal and community
life as the ultimate goal.
To
live at all is to affirm the
value of living (even the act
of suicide affirms the
value of human action and
of human life); similarly every animal acts as if the world were orderly.
The original UM document called one body
of mainline Protestants to affirm
at the most basic level that all forms
of human life are worth incalculably more than their industrial, market, scientific or even therapeutic use
value.
At that time, there was little thought
of the natural environment
of human life or
of the
value of the other creatures with which we share the world.
If the Christian
life is a better
life than some others, then it must not be
at the expense
of human and earthly
values.
Without in any way wishing to ignore what has been called the «tragic sense
of life», let us
at this point affirm the positive
values of human existence, finite though it is.
This postulate
of invariability seems
at first sight to be admissible in the «Darwinian» zones
of Life, where the instinct
of self - preservation predominates (this seeming by its nature to be more or less constant among organized beings), but it certainly loses all
value in the «Lamarckian» or
human zone, where biological evolution, from being passive, becomes active in the pursuit
of its purpose.
In A Case for Irony, the text
of his Tanner Lectures on
Human Values, delivered in 2009 at Harvard University, the philosopher Jonathan Lear argues that irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good human
Human Values, delivered in 2009
at Harvard University, the philosopher Jonathan Lear argues that irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good
human human life.
The message
of the film places virtually no
value on
human life, and the movie itself does» t care
at all for its audience, save for the pain it can cause in the viewing experience.
Finally, an invitation to the Al Smith Dinner in no way indicates a slackening in our vigorous promotion
of values we Catholic bishops believe to be
at the heart
of both gospel and American
values, particularly the defense
of human dignity, fragile
life, and religious freedom.
Yet
at the same time, an unbridled, completely laissez - faire capitalist system can he as destructive to
human life and to
human value as any communist system might be, for unbridled capitalism will inevitably grind to that point where the capitalists are very few, owning all the means
of production, and the masses are many, and they are being exploited.
1, 1977, and available from the Center for Process Studies, David Ray Griffin, Executive Director, School
of Theology
at Claremont, 1325 N. College Ave., Claremont, Calif. 91711 Valerie C. Salving, «Androgynous
Life: A Feminist Appropriation
of Process Thought»; Marjorie Suchocki, «Feminism in Process»; Penelope Washbourn, «The Dynamics
of Female Experience: Process Models and
Human Values»; and John Cobb, «Feminism and Process Thought: A Two - Way Relationship.»
On what the
value of human life in Ghana was, he recalled that it was reported recently that
at least 85 people had died in Ghana from the outbreak
of pneumococcal meningitis.
From estimates
of how much society
values a
human life, Jason West
at the University
of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and colleagues deduce that alternative energy supplies should be worth the cost.
On her supposed deathbed, she had a
life - altering experience through which she realized her
value as a
human being and recognized that an old, unconscious fear was
at the root
of her cancer.
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life of day, with an
value over the time including the power to notice over a same and standardized
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Ken Loach's latest, the winner
of this year's Palme d'Or
at Cannes, is one
of the most important films
of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the
value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces
of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces
human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.
Even she doubts her Rambo antics
at one point in the movie: «And if a small boy can teach a machine the
value of human life, then...»
At CECIP we use to say that it is the ability
of perceiving global interdependencies,
valuing diversity, understanding that all
living beings are interconnected and acknowledging that people from all over the world belong to the same race, the
human race; to the same family, the
human family.
«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.»
And as Margaret Somerville, the founding director
of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law
at McGill University says, the debate comes down to a direct conflict between the
value of respect for
human life, on the one hand, and individuals» rights to autonomy and self determination — the
value of «choice» — on the other.
So your
human life value to retirement is
at least $ 2,500,000 assuming there are no cost
of living increases and no bonuses.
The combined sum assured
of all policies should not exceed your
human life value, which is the risk assessment calculated by your insurers
at the time
of policy application.
Alternatively, you can use
human life value calculator and other methods
of calculation to arrive
at the sum assured.