However, he denies that self-love is the only human motive or necessarily in conflict with other motives, and argues that in fact its aims can be fully or really achieved only through the natural law; this does command humans to love themselves, albeit in a mitigated, restrained, and thus more successful way.
I use it to mean belief, typically organised into doctrine, in the existence of one or more invisible beings who, again typically, command human beings to live and act in certain ways, and reward or punish accordingly.
Prayer is a significant and universal aspect of religion, whether of primitive peoples or of modern mystics, that expresses the broad range of religious feelings and attitudes that command human relations with the sacred or holy.
God could command human beings to hate him and such a precept must be considered as morally binding.
Where the fact of command matters more than the substance of what is commanded, human intention to obey has greater significance than the substantive enactments of obedience.
There's also evidence that Yahweh commanded human sacrifice in the law of Moses.
Later, when the practice of human sacrifice fell into disrepute among elite circles, the prophet Ezekiel confirms that Yahweh commanded human sacrifice, but interprets that command as a form of punishment for Israel's disobedience.
When Stubbs ventures out into the wild to look for her, he is attacked by a contingent of Ghost Army Indian hosts — who, like Maeve, don't respond to verbal commands from humans, or at least not from Stubbs.
What DARPA recognizes is that intelligent machines are not just "agents" carrying out the simple commands of humans, but rather are part of an "intelligent fabric" that dynamically evolves over time.
One robot in development at an Atlanta laboratory is commanded by humans with an ordinary laser pointer, the same kind used by lecturers presenting slide shows.
