Sentences with phrase «whether individual human»

They remain individuals, whether individual human beings or individual classes.

Not exact matches

This is especially true when dealing with human psychology, whether in individuals or groups.

The fact that President Trump's executive order allows the government to prioritize individual claims of religious - based persecution from religious minorities — whether Christian, Yazidi, Jew, Muslim, Bahá» í, Buddhist, etc. — should be welcome news to every Christian and everyone concerned with human rights and religious freedom.

The supernatural element in human life, whether it comes to us through conscience as human beings or through the Spirit as believers, is not to be located externally in the world of nature and social institutions (as for Taylor and MacIntyre), nor internally (as for the Romantics), but in the interaction of the individual with his world.

Spanning the entire spectrum of creation, whether in terms of sex, politics, or religion, Christians affirm that God is speaking through the law written on human hearts, with individual consciences picking up the signals, either accusing or excusing them, until that day when God will finally judge all things by the criterion of Jesus Christ (Romans 1:15 — 16).

Whether Buber speaks of the establishment of community or religious redemption, his goal is «the goal of the ages,» and the way to that goal is through the fulfillment and redemption of individual human beings in direct and upright relation with one another.

This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.»

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

The word Messiah, which means literally «anointed one,» points strictly, of course, to an individual; but in the psychology of Israel with its facile and often unconscious transitions from individual to corporate personality, we are hardly wrong in allowing a broader definition to the term Messianism, in which emphasis is placed upon the redemptive function of the human entity, whether group or individual.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

Whether this future is conceived as eternal life for the individual, or a new heaven and a new earth for mankind, or as the conquest of evil in or beyond human history, the trajectory is toward the future, the eschaton.

This is true whether the sin is the selfishness and self - righteousness of the individual human spirit or the collective sin of global destruction.

«Catholic theology affirms that the emergence of the first members of the human species (whether as individuals or in populations) represents an event that is not susceptible of a purely natural explanation and which can appropriately be attributed to divine intervention.»

In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

As Bok argues: «The premises supporting confidentiality are strong, but they can not support practices of secrecy — whether by individual clients, institutions, or professionals — that undermine and contradict the very respect for persons and for human bonds that confidentiality was meant to protect» (p. 30).

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

All our thinking and our human endeavors, whether individual or collective, religious or secular, are pursued within a context of history, in which we are ever moving away from an original beginning, and nearer to some future goal.

It is in the light of this distinction between freedom and determinism that we can reassess the above examples of characteristically human and characteristically animal behaviour to determine whether animals have these two orders of being within their individual identities.

It was never intended to be used as a judgment on whether or not an individual human being is a Skinny Minnie or a Fat Fatty Fatcake — and yet, chances are, your doctor's office has your BMI recorded in your chart somewhere, and might even make prescriptions for your health based on those digits.

Glendon Parker and his team therefore investigated whether the protein found in human hair could offer another tool for identifying individuals in forensic or archaeology scenarios.

But we can't say whether these couplings happened as rapes during violent battles between humans and Neanderthals or when individual Neanderthals were welcomed into human society.

Human subject means a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains (1) Data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or (2) Identifiable private information.

It shows the number of articles along the y - axis, the total number of citations along the x-axis, color codes whether an individual is one of the «concerned signers» who signed any of 20 declarations affirming the mainstream view of human impact on climate and the need to limit greenhouse emissions, was one of the 619 contributing authors to IPCC AR4 wg1 (2007), «non-signer» who is one of the non-AR4-wg1 authors on climate who signed neither statement a statement of concern nor skepticism, or one of the 495 individuals who signed any of 16 declaration skeptical of mainstream climate science or of the need for GHG cuts.

Here, we investigate whether the contemporary HG strategy was already present in the Upper Paleolithic (UP), using complete genome sequences from Sunghir, a site dated to ~ 34 thousand years BP (kya) containing multiple anatomically modern human (AMH) individuals.

Objectives: The study goal was to leverage 3 distinct lines of evidence - a family that included individuals with complete (compound heterozygote) ANGPTL3 deficiency, a population based - study of humans with partial (heterozygote) ANGPTL3 deficiency, and biomarker levels in patients with myocardial infarction (MI)- to test whether ANGPTL3 deficiency is associated with lower risk for CAD.

Do not buy HGH without a prescription, either from online companies or other individuals — only a doctor can determine whether or not you need human growth hormones, and if so, how much you require

The major themes of the game include the free will of individual soldiers, and whether that freedom is needed to keep the human element of war going, or a stumbling block that could be overcome with technology.

Whether online or otherwise, these information cocoons perpetuate self - reinforcing ideas, sources of information, and tightly coupled connections to specific individuals, groups, and institutions that inhibit people's ability and willingness to consider differences of opinion that flow within the kaleidoscope of human ideas and experiences.

All individuals — whether human or animal — experience similar symptoms when they have an insulin deficiency (diabetes).

Whether an individual is alive or dead they emit a human scent which is picked up on by a dog.

Understanding the genetic makeup of canine cancer tumors, and comparing their genetic makeup to those of people with cancer, will allow researchers to discover additional targeted drug therapies and the least toxic doses of those therapies that are most effective in curing the individual, whether canine or human.

While this paradigm has been criticised as too rigid to accommodate the quirks of human choices [27], [28], it is clear that individuals can assess (or, in any case, attempt to assess), whether a variant is valuable or not.

Mona Hatoum focuses on ideas of conflict and confrontation, whether it is collective distress felt in war - torn societies or individual traumas inflicted on human bodies.

Across these films and many others, landscape becomes a way of thinking and making images at a scale that exceeds the individual, whether by opening onto the wonder of natural processes, the intersections of human and nonhuman life, or the fraught triangulation of a people, the state, and the soil.

Whether dealing with inherently human issues, digital simulacra or pop culture landscapes (and in response to the ubiquity of well crafted fiction in video art) these videos are all concerned with presenting individual and subjective truths, maintaining the viewer as the final interpreter of the discourses they set in motion.

Whether it be still life, portrait, human figure or landscapes, students can expect individual attention and lessons that will be sure to enhance their work.

Obsessed with portraiture, real or imagined, his works — whether in miniature or on large canvases — shed light on individual personalities and the quirks of human nature.

the greater truth is that totalitarian governments, both left and right, whether burma's military «path to socialism» and cuba's ultra leftist dictatorship have had a similarly corrosive effect on human dignity, squelching individual initiative to prosper at every level of existence.

The real issue is whether humans can arrive at a sustainable long term accommodation with the planet voluntarily and consensually (Democracy) or whether it must be imposed at the direction of high minded individuals who are better than, or know more than, everyone else (Authoritarianism).

In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»

There's a very lively academic debate going on over whether hot extremes trigger human conflict at all scales from individual to civil wars — my reading of the evidence is that the effect is real,» he said.

Climate scientists can quantify the role of human influence in individual flooding events; specifically whether they are made more or less likely in a changing climate.

«Previous analyses linking observed impacts to climate change have been generic in nature, addressing whether there is an influence of human - related warming on impacts globally, without an inference to individual impacts,» says Hansen.

It shows the number of articles along the y - axis, the total number of citations along the x-axis, color codes whether an individual is one of the «concerned signers» who signed any of 20 declarations affirming the mainstream view of human impact on climate and the need to limit greenhouse emissions, was one of the 619 contributing authors to IPCC AR4 wg1 (2007), «non-signer» who is one of the non-AR4-wg1 authors on climate who signed neither statement a statement of concern nor skepticism, or one of the 495 individuals who signed any of 16 declaration skeptical of mainstream climate science or of the need for GHG cuts.

The Supreme Court of Canada will be hearing an appeal of Schrenk v. British Columbia (Human Rights Tribunal) and determining whether the B.C Human Rights Tribunal had jurisdiction to hear a complaint about discrimination in employment involving individuals from different workplaces / separate employers.

There are really two issues that must be considered when asking the provocative question about whether potentially precluding an employee on the basis of an addiction to cigarettes would be a violation of that individual's rights under the Ontario Human Rights Code: (1) is the practice illegal; and (2) if not always, then when?

The question is whether one could overturn homicide statutes on the grounds that an individual holds to traditional beliefs that a human sacrifice is required every few months.

In the two - track approach to the European human rights project, where the Luxembourg Court is also proactive in providing guidance, the Strasbourg Court in 2013 in M.E v Sweden is being asked by the interveners [42] to apply the guidance of the UK Supreme Court, [43] and the UK Upper Tribunal, [44] in engaging with the risk group (those who are open), and how they are identified («not being straight enough, including straight individuals, due to non-compliance with a heteronormative stereotype in the eyes of the potential persecutor»), independent of whether an individual is «voluntarily discrete», where such discretion is due to a well - founded fear of persecution.