Sentences with phrase «view of individual people»

Our shrinking planet can not afford the continuation of the view of individual people or individual nations competing for scarce resources.

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From this point of view, the involvement in this kind of activity remains an individual responsibility of the person that engages in it.»

I assume that the individuals on both the ETH and ETC sides of the hard fork are good, well - meaning people, and there is ample evidence to support my view.

The individual views of the Board members are not attributed, which is appropriate given the composition of the RBA Board, where only two of the members are full - time central bankers, with the majority of the others being business people.

LocalBlox claims on its website that it is capable of offering a «true 360 degree people view» by «marry [ing] work - life and personal - life individual data to generate combined intelligence.»

Why is it so hard to believe that rational people can view the actions of individuals and come to the same conclusion without conspiring together?

The event consisted of music, a testimony from P.O.D's lead singer, Sonny Sandoval, a relevant message from Burden, clips of on the street interviews with local people about their views on God, heaven, etc., and an opportunity for individuals with questions about spirituality to talk after the event.

A lot of people who believe in the individual election to eternal life view say they do not believe in double predestination because of how repulsive it is, but to me, it seems the logical conclusion.

It should be clearly understood that Islam does not set aside a specific person with the right to interpret the Qur» an or the Sunnah, nor does it make it a duty of the people to adhere to any person's individual views on questions which are open to private opinion.

The reason is because people are lazy and religion is an easy way to determine the views of an individual.

It is, however, a mentality that Dawson seeks to capture, and he grounds it historically in the emergence of late medieval / early modern urbanites whose place in society Dawson thinks contributed to a view of persons as isolated individuals, disconnected from the land and from one another.

Since religious freedom is based on the inherent dignity of the human person there is no question of it permitting the treatment of individuals to be based on the view that some are of a lesser dignity than others.

If persons are viewed as individual substances responsible only for their acts, this is, of course, true.

That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

He proposes that humanity is in a certain sense naturally religious, for the structure of the individual human person and of corporate human life is pervaded by religion., This is consistent with his view that one can expect to find the mark of the Creator in creation.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

Nor formally, of course, but, in view of the fact that, in modern English, to be one person is to be an individual; to speak of God as «three persons» seems to imply that God is three individuals.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

Could we not view suicide an an act that involves the interrelationship of three parties: the individual person, the human community, and God?

Instead of viewing persons as individual atoms related to one another through contracts and market transactions, we view people as persons - in - community, valuing the relations that constitute community.

Carl Henry, for example, was able to respond to Jim Wallis's characterization of the communal, over against the individual, nature of the gospel by saying that he agreed with Wallis's communal definition.67» But Henry's individualistic view of people within human society, while allowing for the community of the church, the importance of the family, and a limited function for the state, remains largely atomistic.

In this view all individual entities from protons to people are centers of experience and are not simply objects for the experience of others.

While the American people certainly don't have a «right» to see the tax returns of any private individual, the public has grown to expect that those running for the highest office in the land will voluntarily allow us to view their filings.

That is, according to this view, God doesn't elect individual people, but elects groups of people instead (Klein, The New Chosen Pepeople, but elects groups of people instead (Klein, The New Chosen Pepeople instead (Klein, The New Chosen PeoplePeople).

In my view, its quite a leap to go from a prediction about how an individual will respond to a question over the next several hours to the conclusion that God knew every decision of every person who would ever exist before the creation of the world.

«4 The term «individual» in his comment applies not only to people but to any entity whatsoever: «Any sentient individual in any world experiences and acts as one... «5 These ideas of Hartshorne's do not stand in isolation; rather they are part of a Whiteheadian world - view in which each individual entity is an integration of parts into a whole.

A liberal education, Freedman went on to say, «ought to make a person independent of mind, skeptical of authority and received views, prepared to forge an identity for himself or herself, and capable of becoming an individual not bent upon copying other persons — even persons as persuasive and influential as one's father.»

The specific issue is whether in light of Cobb's general understanding of God's providential guidance we can view him as indeed present within individual persons without displacing their freedom and independence as self - determining subjects.

In other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of it.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

Rather viewing man as a corporate being, he declared, «I myself am Adam, am I and humanity together; in me falls humanity; as I am Adam, so is every individual, but then in all individuals the one person of humanity, Adam, is active.

For their purposes they viewed people as Homo economicus, and Homo economicus is an individual interested only in possession and consumption of goods.

If one individual wants to express their religious views, then no one should deny that person of that right.

Even more than a world view shaped by Newtonian science, the magnitude of evil that falls upon individuals and peoples rules out for these Christians any easy confidence.

They may coincide in persons who are scientists and also believers, or in private encounters between individuals, but there is no possibility of, or need for, a synthesis between our scientific and religious world views.

The persuasiveness of religious programs toward change appear to be greatest when they are viewed by a person who is in a state of attitude imbalance or transition and seeking new forms of gratification for his or her needs; when they are viewed by a person for whom religious faith has always been a viable, if not vital, option; when the options being presented are seen as realistic and leading to a desirable end; when opportunity for demonstration exists in proximate distance to the viewing situation; and when the attitude or behavior is not central to the individual's self - concept and ego - functioning.

The implications of expressing the thesis as such an equation are (1) if the viewed action is not at all salient for the person (i.e., = 0) the action will not affect the viewer's behavior («act»); (2) the chance that a particular viewed action will affect a person's behavior will decrease to the extent that they have other alternatives in their «repertoire»; and (3) if the individual is not aroused to act he will not exhibit the viewed behavior, no matter how salient it is.

The view on a good central defender varies from person to person, but the one thing I have learned from the few years I've watched soccer is that a good central defensive partnership is much more than the sum of individuals.

In the world of research, individual families are viewed as macro cultures which have the power to produce young people who are more generous than other macro cultures.

When I attended the BOND conference in April I was really inspired, not only by the speakers but, by all of the individual work done by all of the folks in the industry, from educators to brand reps.. This industry is making big strides to change the way people view early infant development and creating lasting bonds between caregivers and their children.

Fascists are against individuality; the expression of liberty, and view individuals only in relation to their people.

References to ordinary people were much more gender balanced, with women accounting for 46.8 per cent of individual citizens, although when you take into consideration that women account for a higher proportion of the electorate than men, this too might be viewed as problematic.

Asking people their opinion on individual policies doesn't provide a genuine picture of their views.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio said earlier this year that he could count on one hand the number of people who qualify as «agents of the city,» individuals who offer him policy advice but whose communications with City Hall are shielded from public view.

Part of the problem is that it's not just the individual persons» views shift; it's a definition of what's «conservative» vs. not.

Most libertarians I've talked to view the portions of the Civil Rights Act that coerce the actions of individuals or their use of private property to be a ill - guided and would rather people «vote with their wallets» (e.g. by boycotting racist businesses.)

He said each agency must act in the interests of the individual child, but stressed: «If we take the view as a society that we should not discriminate against people who are homosexual, you can not give exclusions for people on the grounds that their religion or their race says we don't agree with that.»

It would be easy to think that these are the comments of a few unpleasant individuals, but working class people know that this is how many people view them.

«The coalition is an agreement on a whole range of things, including letting the British people decide whether they want a fair voting system and that was agreed irrespective of the views of individuals in either party,» Deputy Lib Dem leader Simon Hughes told Channel 4 News.

Dr Bunning said: «What tends to happen is that these types of cultural beliefs affect how individuals with disabilities view themselves and how other people see them.