He's equally dismissive about western governments' concern to make investment and aid contingent on human rights reforms.
All of this is a bold reminder of how contingent our human presence on earth really is.
What was once guaranteed is now contingent on human behavior.
"The mistake of the 'realists' is not their interest in the struggle for power but their deliberate neglect of everything else, especially the non-scientific, contingent, very human feelings and beliefs that most powerfully move people," Donald Kagan writes in "Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy".
This teleology is spelled out in Milhamot II, in which Gersonides is concerned to explain how divine knowledge operates, and to what extent divine foreknowledge of future contingents affects human choice.
Shapiro's claim is directed against philosophical theories that willfully ignore contingent facts about human bodies as if a human mind could inhere in wildly different body types.
PARIS — More than 100 nations, contingents of human-rights groups and lawyers from around the globe, will begin a meeting on Monday in Kampala, Uganda, tackling issues that could fundamentally expand the power of international law.
Even so, The Monuments Men shifts so rapidly from place to place, art gallery to cathedral, museum to storage pit, that its human contingent remain ciphers.
The performers move about on a mostly bare stage, suggesting, without being too definite, organisms of various species populating the earth and a human contingent exploring, settling, mastering, and running amok.
