During the Somalia intervention in 1992, Henry A. Kissinger wrote that "no other nation" except the United States had ever asserted that "humane concerns" matter so much "that not only treasure but lives must be risked to vindicate them".
But if the ultimate point is to arouse humane concern for Palestinians in general, Ms. Jacir's work falls short.
But, in even the most perverse installments, there's a delicacy, a humane concern at how easily our private desires can be mined in the pursuit of profit.
Foucault viewed modern bureaucratic institutions as exuding a spirit of rationality, scientific expertise, and humane concern but as really amounting to an arbitrary exercise of power by one group over another.
There are three things that lift this book above mere exploitation: the seriousness of Leroi's scientific investigations; the humane concern he manifests for the suffering other; and the sensitivity of his aesthetic appreciation of the wonders of nature.
This is shaping up to be an emblematic battle of conflicting visions: twentieth-century fealty to the automobile, or a more humane concern for community that is at once old-fashioned and forward-thinking.
From this humane concern about the sufferings from positive checks arose Malthus' admonition that poor laws (i.e., legal measures that provided relief to the poor) and charity must not cause their beneficiaries to relax their moral restraint or increase their fertility, lest such humanitarian gestures become perversely counterproductive.
Over the next twenty-five yeaRobinobin and I became good friends, and I grew to appreciate — no less than the brilliance of his wit and his sudden, explosive improvisations — his wide reading, the depth of his intelligence, and his humane concerns.
Over the next twenty-five yeaRobinobin and I became good friends, and I grew to appreciate no less than the brilliance of his wit and his sudden, explosive improvisations his wide reading, the depth of his intelligence, and his humane concerns.
He says humane concerns must be considered.
But many are also motivated by humane concerns.
