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And the report discusses the subjective value of nature in terms of the «amenity» seemingly provided by green space.

J. Muir, A. Leopold, H. Rolston and J. B. Calicott, among others, emphasized the value of nature in and of itself.64

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The political standoff in Canberra will put a spotlight on the value of the $ A, and the uncompetitive nature of large segments of Australia's economy.

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The concept has since been adopted by the United Nations» Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), which grimly reported that two thirds of the earth's ecosystems are in decline and urged governments to adopt policies that «recognize the true value of nature.»

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The decentralized nature of cryptocurrency, its ability to redistribute wealth, and the speculative nature of its inherent value spurred mainstream interest in crypto.

I think it's in the nature of long term shareholding of the normal vicissitudes, in worldly outcomes, and in markets that the long - term holder has his quoted value of his stocks go down by say 50 %.

The muted nature likely disappointed the bulls, especially considering an impressive first - quarter GDP reading (the first of several in the coming weeks) that initially drove most stocks higher in value.

Exactly what is the value of the Law in the Old Testament other than to point out the sinful nature of man and his need for a savior.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

Vagueness can be avoided, of course, if we go to the logical extreme of such a move, which would lie in attributing to the consequent nature all valuations, reserving to the primordial nature only the constitution of metaphysical possibility and the subjective aim toward value realization in general.

Such a view would not be quite so absurd as might at first appear: the divine temporal evaluations would seem to be no more arbitrary than those of the constitution of the primordial nature in Whitehead's view; and the divine subjective aim toward the maximum of value intensity, together with the property of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature) of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal evaluations.

which is his «particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 532); the» «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (PR 135).

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

In traditional theism nature has no intrinsic value, so the fact that it exists merely for God's purposes and is then destroyed is of no moral consequence.

This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

This means that every achievement of value in the temporal world is preserved everlastingly in God's consequent nature.

The lesson to be learned is to stop imposing human moral values on nature and to live as part of the ecosystem in such a way that the whole flourishes.

For although our work - dominated values concerning the nature of humankind seem to be in transition, Americans remain curiously ill - prepared to play authentically.

Since he raises the claim of a «living transcendence» in the context of a discussion on nature and ethics, an analysis of Camus» statements on the existence of value in nature may provide us with an understanding of how he conceives this transcendence.

Explicitly identifying himself with the position of historical idealism, Polak maintains that it is precisely the spiritual nature of the values widely held in a society that gives them their power.

The definition of art as the effort to exalt some beauty in nature, but not to enslave man to mere imitation, is Camus» aesthetic equivalent to the notion of a dynamic value in nature.

Pace Donald Sherburne's solution (viz. ditching God altogether, positing the multiplicity of actual entities as the only source of a plural «order, meaning and value»), one possible response might run as follows: in the primordial nature there are no general (fixed a priori) standards of value, there is only the capacity to offer «guidelines» relative to already individuated worlds, This, or something very like it, seems to be the solution implicitly adopted by Christian when he says of the primordial nature:

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

However, there is nothing in Camus» writings that speaks against a conception of God that could account for the hierarchy of value in nature and also insure the freedom and value of human existence.

As the beauty found in nature is subject to some process, so the values affirmed by men are relative to the sway of historical events.

Camus» sympathy with the former stance leads to the denial of any value in nature; the latter explains his claim that beauty and limit are rooted in physis.

Our problem, he says, is not that we have become urbanized but that we have built our cities in such a way as to sacrifice our relation to nature for the sake of urban values; and the ironic result is that for most of their inhabitants our cities no longer provide even urban values.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Harmony with nature and one's own body, a more «feminine» and less dominating attitude toward one's self and others, an ability to accept feelings and emotions — including feelings of weakness and despair — a willingness to accept personal variety, have all been valued and tried in practice.

The distinction among the three kinds rests upon the nature of the objects valued — ideas in the first case, sense data in the second, and acts in the third.

The consequent nature of God is the gathering up of all the values as they arise and their conservation in an everlasting consciousness that grows from more to more as each epoch rises and perishes and delivers up the value which it has achieved to this cosmic consciousness.

He was willing to settle for what he called «practical absolutes, «27 that is, visions of the mind or idealizations which, at any given time, had the value of an ultimate directive in decision or action, but which were clearly to be understood as being a piece with man's own nature and experience.

Wieman believed that the consequent nature of God had been «added on like dome and spire» — lacking both empirical support and practical value in the search for the sources of human good.

Wieman, who (except perhaps in Wrestle) was never willing to affirm the total dominance of the value - making process in nature, was reasserting that position, while moving beyond the principle of concretion toward something which could «promote» itself.

Our description of value shows that faith is given through the nature of the responses actually generated in the inter-relation of persons with the objects of their loyalty.

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

There may be some clue here to previously puzzling observations about processes of nature which are unrelated to value in the comment that this process of flowing «is not the work of God.

These formulations of the nature of value were not developed in later texts.

But he is... that kind of process in nature which most nearly approximates this order of supreme value and promotes further approximation to it» (RR 175).

To recognize the factual nature of values as responses of actual human beings in actual or imagined situations is to remain on the solid ground of experience which all can understand.

Professor Steve Odin's «A Metaphysics of Cumulative Penetration: Process Theory and Hua - yen Buddhism» (PS 11:65 - 82), is a highly stimulating and challenging essay not only for Whiteheadian and Buddhist studies, but also for its comparative value.1 He has presented a searching analysis of Whiteheadian metaphysics of cumulative penetration, but his treatment of Buddhism in general and Hua - yen in particular in terms of that metaphysics leaves much to be desired, thereby marring the comparative nature of the whole essay.

An environmental philosopher who has thought much about the issue of value in nature is Holmes Rolston, III (PGW).

These in - between examples, however they maintain themselves, are precisely those in whom Nature has found a way to maintain this tricky balance — where as Whitehead mused, Nature seeks a balance between the value of survival and the value of interest, between creativity and intensity.

He proposes that if we analyze our own experience of nature carefully, we will see that in many instances we experience nature, not merely as a recipient of value assignments, but as a «carrier of values» (VN 113).

With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their emphases on a sacramental understanding of nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.