::“ happiness, private happiness, is the proper or ultimate end of all our actions … each particular action may be said to have its proper and peculiar end …( but )….

Ancestral veneration in some cultures ( such as Chinese ) ( 敬祖, pinyin: jìngzǔ ), as well as ancestor worship ( 拜祖, pinyin: bàizǔ ), seeks to honor and reminiscence the actions of the deceased ; the ultimate homage to the dead.

Here Humboldt states that ' the ultimate task of our existence is to give the fullest possible content to the concept of humanity in our own person [...] through the impact of actions in our own lives '.

They insist, rather, that free will means that man must be the " ultimate " or " originating " cause of his actions.

The argument, then, is that if man has free will, then man is the ultimate cause of his actions.

So, if everything man does is caused by events and facts outside his control, then he cannot be the ultimate cause of his actions.

In a game of cricket, the ultimate priority of the fielding side is to restrict the total number of runs scored by the batting side, and the actions of the bowlers will be fundamental to achieving this objective.

This in turn can relate to factors such as: norms for coordinating actions and dividing resources ; what is considered self-defense or provocation ; attitudes towards ' outsiders ', attitudes towards specific groups such as women, the disabled or the lower status ; the availability of alternative conflict resolution strategies ; trade interdependence and collective security pacts ; fears and impulses ; and ultimate goals regarding material and social outcomes.

Some writers remark that similarities between cleansing actions, engaged in by obsessive compulsive disorder sufferers and those of religious purification rites, point to an ultimate origin of the rituals in the personal grooming behaviour of the primates, but others connect the rituals to primitive taboos.

Frances Gunther, his mother, takes care to have conversations with him about the ultimate issues of life and suffering as addressed in many cultures worldwide, making spiritual writings accessible to him and impressing on him the value of his thoughts and the effect of his actions on others.

In this schema, the Legionnaire might have to perform fanatical and violent actions that would condemn him to damnation, which was considered the ultimate sacrifice for the nation.

The incompatibilists believe free will refers to genuine ( e. g., absolute, ultimate ) alternate possibilities for beliefs, desires or actions, rather than merely counterfactual ones.

What allows for ultimate of creation in Kane's picture are what he refers to as " self-forming actions " or SFAs — those moments of indecision during which people experience conflicting wills.

Kane responds that the difference between causal indeterminism and compatibilism is " ultimate control — the originative control exercised by agents when it is ' up to them ' which of a set of possible choices or actions will now occur, and up to no one and nothing else over which the agents themselves do not also have control ".

Congress also attempted to confer the Medal of Honor on each of the four chaplains, but the stringent requirements for that medal required heroism performed “ under fire ,” and the bravery and ultimate sacrifice of these men did not technically qualify, since their actions took place after the torpedo attack.

In his letter, Russell wrote: " The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority.

Yet, even after Orme's final submission, the reader remains in a conflicted, ambiguous state as to ultimate moral value of the actions of this Martian Jesus and his impending reign on Earth.

Seghers best-known story The Outing of the Dead Girls ( 1946 ), written in Mexico, was an autobiographical reminiscence of a pre-World War II class excursion on the Rhine river in which the actions of the protagonist's classmates are seen in light of their decisions and ultimate fates during both world wars.

Thanks to Sinestro's actions, Parallax successfully infected Jordan's mind, leaving the so-called " greatest Green Lantern " vulnerable to fear for the first time in his life and setting up Sinestro's ultimate triumph.

Darkness is presented as ultimate freedom, even from the consequences of one's own actions.

The disparity between the recommendations of the McGaw report and the actions taken by the New South Wales government has led to frequent rumours and press reports of the ultimate abolition of the School Certificate.

Ministerial responsibility or individual ministerial responsibility is a constitutional convention in governments using the Westminster System that a cabinet minister bears the ultimate responsibility for the actions of their ministry or department.

Some historians give it credit for the ultimate actions taken by Martin Luther, who prized the document, and the subsequent Protestant Reformation a century and a half later, although doctrinally Luther and the Reformation were very different from the Free Spirits.

His ultimate fate is unknown ; Teallian actions on previous occasions would seem to indicate that they were intent on destroying his personality, which would be equivalent to an execution.

Procreation, expansion, proliferation -- these are the laws of living things, with the penalty for not obeying them the ultimate in punishments: oblivion.

Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else's.

Although these churches hold much in common, their theology differs on whether the intermediate state is unconscious sleep or consciousness, whether the ultimate punishment of the wicked is annihilation or eternal torment, the nature of immortality, whether or not the wicked are resurrected after the millennium, and whether the sanctuary of refers to the one in heaven or one on earth.

In these sutras the perfection of the wisdom of not-self is stated to be the true self ; the ultimate goal of the path is then characterized using a range of positive language that had been used previously in Indian philosophy by essentialist philosophers, but which was now transmuted into a new Buddhist vocabulary to describe a being who has successfully completed the Buddhist path.

The apparent class distinction in almost all of these paintings is completely neutralized by Death as the ultimate equalizer, so that a sociocritical element is subtly inherent to the whole genre.

Friedrich Engels wrote: " I use ' historical materialism ' to designate the view of the course of history, which seeks the ultimate causes and the great moving power of all important historic events in the economic development of society, in the changes in the modes of production and exchange, with the consequent division of society into distinct classes and the struggles of these classes.

The ultimate status of these perfect souls is called siddha.

The first principles states that: " the ultimate values of mankind are spiritual ; these values include liberty, human dignity, opportunity and equal rights and justice.

The Q60 extended the Sinclair QL design similarly from the slowest start to the ultimate pace of the 68K architecture's capabilities ; these 68060-based motherboards — at 66 MHz for the full 68060 or a non-FPU 68LC060 option overclocked to 80 MHz — are more than 100 times faster than the Sinclair QL while running the same operating systems.

Looking pale and drawn during these events, he gave a hint to his ultimate fate in April 1963, when he said to visitors, " That which happens to all men perhaps will happen soon to the Pope who speaks to you today.

With guidance by molecular theory, the dependence of viscoelastic properties on these variables can be simplified by introducing additional concepts such as the free volume, the monomeric friction coefficient, and the spacing between entanglement loci, to provide a qualitative understanding and in many cases a quantitative prediction of how to achieve desired physical and chemical properties and ultimate microstructure.

In these cases, usually the half-life of interest in radiometric dating is the longest one in the chain, which is the rate-limiting factor in the ultimate transformation of the radioactive nuclide into its stable daughter.

For these reasons, some readers find Marianne's ultimate marriage to Colonel Brandon an unsatisfactory ending.

Despite the myriad of these ultimate responses, they are all directly due to changes in particular cell proteins.

Israel claimed that Arafat was in ultimate control over these organizations and therefore had not abandoned terrorism.

In response to these criticisms, Pope John Paul II on October 2 of that year emphasized that this document did not say that non-Christians were denied salvation: " This confession does not deny salvation to non-Christians, but points to its ultimate source in Christ, in whom man and God are united.

The ultimate Han victory in these wars eventually forced the Xiongnu to accept vassal status as Han tributaries.

Although these reforms provoked considerable opposition, Wang's regime met its ultimate downfall with the massive floods of c. 3 CE and 11 CE.

The ultimate goal of these mechanism was to facilitate the authentic will of the white populace.

* Advising on domestic and international financial, monetary, economic, trade and tax policy ( fiscal policy being the sum of these, and the ultimate responsibility of Congress );

Elms take many decades to grow to maturity, and as the introduction of these disease-resistant cultivars is relatively recent, their long-term performance and ultimate size and form cannot be predicted with certainty.

In other words, when a reference is made to a thing's essence or idea, or when one details the constitution of an identical coherent thing by describing what one " really " sees as being only these sides and aspects, these surfaces, it does not mean that the thing is only and exclusively what is described here: The ultimate goal of these reductions is to understand how these different aspects are constituted into the actual thing as experienced by the person experiencing it.