Sentences with phrase «value of human life»

I think the «new» message should be: we're ALL the same, all humans, in terms of the intrinsic value of human life.

Our culture lacks a way of talking effectively about the ultimate value of human life, or making large judgments about what is good for human beings in the long run.

The moral value of a human life is not to be measured by its viability.

Or, it can be impossible: an attempt to attribute a price to the intrinsic value of human life, living things and nature itself.

For this reason, microfinance is both a tool to alleviate poverty and a lens to witness the inherent value of every human life.

Compound interest calculator: Input N, PMT, I, taxes, and inflation, and it calculates PV (present economic value of a human life).

What stands behind all these inevitable moral conflicts is this deposit of deep conventions protecting the transcultural primary values of human life.

Also central to her book is the contention that in their opposition to the totalitarian Roman state, «Christians forged the basis for what would become, centuries later, the western ideas of freedom and of the infinite value of each human life.»

Indeed, the unique and intrinsic value of human life merely for being human is under concerted attack across a broad array of disciplines — bioethics, animal rights, radical environmentalism, and Darwinism.

Does the near universal proscription against cannibalism promote respect for the unique value of human life — that continues even beyond life?

Relativism runs through the whole of our modern world - view: the assessment of nature as a directionless flux of chance events, the erosion of the absolute value of human life, the dismissal of historic religious authority as «out of date», and the ever shifting sands of personal and social morality.

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.

Yet most pro-life teaching and debating strategy seems to assume the transcendent value of human life and identity.

This paper begins by detailing Hartshorne's view of abortion, which is rooted in his philosophical views on God and rationality, and his theory of contributionism, which holds that the ultimate value of human life is in the contribution it makes to God.

The dying deserve the latest scientific palliative interventions, and also the venerable recognition of the intrinsic value of every human life.

My objection is not to Kass's effort to find a way of characterizing the inherent value of human life and certain important human characteristics, but to his reliance on «dignity» to make his case.

Genesis thus affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature.

To make the economic case for an active population policy, population planners would ultimately need to center their arguments on estimates of the economic value of human life.

Perhaps this is because Collins is less than clear in his publicly stated convictions about the metaphysics and moral value of human life.

More than that, though, he's created a body of work deeply concerned with the the spiritual questions of the value of human life and the grief that follows in death's wake.

He recklessly ignored the value of human life.

Although possessions can not compare to the value of human life, experts estimate the economic losses to have topped $ 50 billion, which could take years to restore.

These and other principles of just war arose out of Christian convictions about the value of human life, social order and the rule of law.

The inquisition too was during a time when the value of human life was lower.

For example, there has never been a time when the value of human life has been so highly regarded and when what are loosely called «human» values are the sole guiding principles for most people.

He spent much of his sermon talking about the value of human life and how horrible euthanasia was.

From the point of view of a Whiteheadian understanding, this is simply false, and an economy based on it will inevitably disrupt community and undercut many of the values of human life.

as an atheist, and straight person who has nothing against gays, I believe in family values and the value of human life.

«The intrinsic value of human life,» Bailey goes on, «is a given for all sides in this debate.»

«No other democracy,» she remarks, «is so careless of the value of human life.»

Somehow it had withstood the unimaginable trauma of the twin towers» destruction, asserting, as eloquently as the Constitution, the durability of democracy and the value of human life.

Humanist though he was, Muretus had learned from the death of Jesus the intrinsic value of all human life.

His theory of contributionism holds that the ultimate value of human life is in the contribution it makes to God.

He boldly states, «I hold that the ultimate value of human life, or of anything else, consists entirely in the contribution it makes to the divine life» (WM 118).

Im not a big fan of people who shove their faith down the throats of others Let me just ask you this, what defines the value of human life?

The Church teaches many things about the way in which society should work: about the laws we make, about how we treat one another and respect each other's rights, about behaving justly with our money, about the value of human life and the duties we owe to the communities in which we live.

Unlike Monod's view, this approach treats humans as necessary, but reduces them to computerized entities, thus diminishing the richness and value of human life.