Sentences with phrase «western conception»

Ash Poitras» collages similarly reject a western conception of the Work of Art.

His numerous installations give a platform to the Western conception of African exoticism that is full of energy and vitality, but is also complex and contradictory.

We must reject the western conception of humanism which developed during the renaissance when human endeavors were devoted to material gains and adapt to African humanism which sees man primarily as a spiritual being endowed with dignity, integrity, respect and value.

These alleged tactics, while morally depressing and possibly illegal, show an extraordinary meshing of violent and nonviolent methods and tools: military, cultural, political and economic, going well beyond the standard Western conception of «hybrid» war.

First and most strikingly, Hartshorne's philosophy radically reconceives the nature of God in order to obviate some notorious logical and moral difficulties in the traditional Western conception of God.

Thus, Hartshorne opposes the classical Western conception of the atomic individual as ultimate with a social conception of the self, and indeed, with a social conception of all reality.

Another of the classical Western notions that is challenged by Hartshorne is what I call the Western conception of the atomic individual.

Whole civilizations reject the Western conception of universal human rights, including, principally, freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

This traditional Western conception of deity — this classical theism — also teaches that God exists from the divine and of the divine; aseity is taken to be the root attribute of the divine.

Repression can also be said to be the main concern of certain «postmodern» critiques of western conceptions of rationality (e.g., socio - theoretical, feminist, and historical critical studies).

This is not the kooky exoticism of Dr. Strange, but a genuinely Afrofuturistic science fiction that unsettles Western conceptions of technological progressivism.

Whereas Altair questioned Western conceptions of who could serve as a hero, Ezio drew from classic Western hero archetypes such as Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and even Batman.

In 1951 after outlining his famous «Anti Cultural Positions» at the Chicago Art Club, Dubuffet became well known for decrying western conceptions of beauty in favor of a raw, uninhibited mode of making art.

Not exact matches

«If the Western democracies had a realistic conception of their long - term interest, they would add high tariffs to Chinese goods until China began behaving like a normal commercial nation,» Kuttner wrote in 2009.

On the relation of the conceptions of God in Western process philosophy and Indian philosophy, Charles Hartshorne has already pointed to the possibility of parallels.

Sir Sayyid urged the Muslims to develop a new science of dialectics to counter the atheistic trends produced by Western civilization, and in 1292 (A.D. 1875) he wrote a commentary on the Qur» an in which he rejected the conception of Islam as a code of rules and regulations which, he said, can not stand the test of scientific scrutiny.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

The novel addresses the conflict between secularism and Islamism, the different conceptions of religion in Muslim and Western societies, and the impossibility of individualism in Muslim culture.

Now I would not insist that it is necessary for any theologian to accept Malraux's conception of the metamorphosis of the divine in Western Christian art.

It also challenged Western Christianity's historic conception of a unitary global order, one that went back to Constantine and the fusion of religious and imperial authority in the fourth century.

Other societies have gods, but their conception of them is vastly different from the western notions, and they are called «gods» in the west simply because we have no other word to use — but they are very different.

(I put «traditional» in quotes because our conception of what constitutes «traditional» is typically influenced more by our Western, relatively privileged, culture than that of the ancient Near Eastern world in which the Bible was written.)

I believe that these indicators will support my general thesis, which is that the African - American conception of God as God of the oppressed is far more in accord with Hartshorne's vision of God than with those classical Western theologies which are affiliated with denominations and traditions from which African - American congregations have sought to liberate themselves.

In contrast to the classical Western neglect of the beautiful ones, there is the Hartshornean theory of «contributionism» which, like traditional African thought, maintains that, given a social conception of human existence, «the rational aim of the individual must in principle transcend any mere good of that individual» (EA 188).

Many people who confess to be a «western» christian take a lot for granted and live a life for themselves without ever asking God what He had planned for their lives even before conception.

Accordingly, the Whiteheadian - Hartshornian conception of the universe - in - process is squarely in opposition to the dominant views of traditional Western philosophy and theology.

A. Boyce Gibson in «The Two Strands of Natural Theology, «55 for example, analyzes the «two compelling conceptions of divinity» in Western philosophy the «self - sufficient» and the «outgoing.»

In this latter interpretation, which, like the unilateral conception of power, has dominated the history of western thought, the self has relations with others, but its inner constitution is not composed of these relations.

Perhaps the most startling feature to Western minds of Hartshorne's (and Whitehead's) philosophy is its conception of human personal identity.

24 And how indeed could Western Christianity and theism have defended for so many centuries a conception of God so glaringly inconsistent with itself and inimical to the biblical portrayal of God as the heavenly Father who grieves over his estranged children?

When theologians affirm that every quest for a genuine and lasting polis is identical with the development of «personhood» in community they should be aware that — at least from a Marxist or revolutionary political point of view — they are serving as ideological spokesmen for a modern Western or bourgeois conception of politics and society.

Today, most (if not all) Western societies operate under this conception of liberalism.

This interactive meeting of eastern and western thought in nineteenth century Bengal became the womb for the conception and growth of a cross-fertilized Jesus.

Western culture may be compared to a lake fed by the stream of Hellenism, Christianity, science, and these contributions might offer an extremely valuable way of considering the conceptions of a life of reason, the principle of an ordered and intelligible world, the ideas of faith, of a personal God, of the absolute value of the human individual, the method of observation and experiment, and the conception of empirical laws, as well as the doctrines of equality and of the brotherhood of man.

For one thing, Whitehead's conception of selfhood is highly critical of the pronounced individualism and essentialism of modern Western religion.

It is in fact a very old conception of God with deep roots in both Western and Oriental mysticism.

The same conception that aimed at Western dominance now, in East Asian authoritarian hands, aims at creating East Asian exceptionalism.

Edward Said long ago noted that Western orientalism offered up its conception of Asia as the other in part to justify Western dominance (Said, 1979).

«87 But Peter Cartwright, who actually during his lifetime did a tremendous amount for education by the distribution of literature and the support of schools, had such a conception of Methodism and the «Western world» as seems at times to have made him compulsively boorish.

By utilizing cross-cultural anthropological data as a method of comparison, the following curriculum critically analyzes western habits and customs with respect to the conception, gestation, birth, and parenting of children — and the impact this is having on individuals, families, society, and the human species as a whole.

Dr. de Mello's PhD dissertation, entitled «Gut Feelings — A Psychosocial Approach to Gastrointestinal Illness,» inspired his conception of a center where psychology would be combined and fully integrated with Western and Eastern medicines.

Though western medicine tends to write off these patients as a lost cause with «advanced maternal age,» with consistent treatment OM techniques can help to reverse the effects of aging and increase the likelihood of successful conception and healthy pregnancy.

Teenage (13 - 19 yrs) conceptions in Scotland are amongst the highest in Western Europe and whilst the rate has declined overall in Grampian, Aberdeen City continues to be above the Scottish average.

In Benton's case the western reference is harder to detect but central to the conception throughout; the film even climaxes with the equivalent of a western showdown and shoot - out.

It's a smart dissection of the western and the American conception of heroism and justice, of this popular adherence to the Old Testament to try to punish all the hatred and mendacity of the world, no matter that the avatar of justice is a whiskey - pickled, one - eyed serial killer.

For onlookers of democratic politics, rather than assuming a trajectory in which democracy (by which too many onlookers assume Western liberal democracy) prevails, it is prudent to heed the contested nature of this concept and note that among populations that are deeply divided on the separation of religion and state, if some form of democracy does arise once the dust settles it will by virtue of the democratic process likely take place in between the essentialized and polarizing categories — those «secular» and «Islamist» conceptions — that are so prevalently and popularly discussed in popular discourse and the media.

Translation: We think 21st century skills consist of a narrow conception of mathematics and western English language arts.

In addition to limited language skills, her students had a conception of science different than Western science.

The marine layer fog flows down the coast with the prevailing NW wind, and bends around Point Conception, usually blanketing San Miguel and Santa Rosa, and often the western portion of Santa Cruz Island.

Moreover, while the growing secular, private conception of Western art has plenty of messages of its own, it has led many to insist on how little their work means.