Mr. Greenwell says, "We, as humans, put reverence on cedar to save us from the bugs".
For Kass illuminates the human condition, fostering reverence for the multifarious aspects of our shared humanity by viewing the most technological of bioethical concerns through the lenses of the morality, love and creativity that characterize our species at its best.
Many humans exhibit deep reverence for nature, for old churches and paintings and other artifacts, and for the preservation of all that we have inherited; but even more (usually poorer) folks are engaged in slash-and-burn forestry, polluting the atmosphere, discarding industrial waste and wiping out plant and animal species.
These church leaders' professed reverence for human life does not seem to extend to these other human issues.
However, the key to building human capital is not "reverence for education" per se but the content of education.
"In law enforcement, our core value is to have a reverence for human life," Heal told me.
But throughout this political firestorm Dr. Koop insisted that he was the same man: the same reverence for human life that had impelled him, as a distinguished surgeon at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, to operate on horribly deformed infants no other doctors would go near now drove him to take bold measures against the spread of AIDS.
We Americans are that smart, that resourceful, that full of compassion and reverence for human life.
But afterward, I was asked how I showed "reverence for human life," during that drill.
Johnson found that department guidelines requiring police to demonstrate "a reverence for human life" were lacking in specificity.
The real soul of a university resides in its ethical reverence for human life and dignity in all university endeavors.
