Sentences with phrase «about human vision»

JAN PURKINJE, A 19TH - CENTURY CZECH physiologist known for recognizing that fingerprints can be useful for identification, also discovered an odd thing about human vision.

«Indeed there are insights that come from work on fruit flies that have helped human health so it's quite possible that the next thing we learn about human vision comes from spiders.»

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They articulate a vision that shapes the way we think about human nature.

A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the human person (though not the full truth about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.

Reinhold Niebuhr criticized this Pelagian vision of individuals and social orders in Moral Man and Immoral Society, replacing it with an Augustinian realism about human existence that tempered any optimism in human progress.

I can remember in college and graduate school reading Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Beckett, and Camus while bemoaning with everyone else, including the teacher, the loss of a shared vision about the purpose of human life.

What is past, present and future for us is known to God all at once in his unchangeable vision.12 St. Augustine acknowledges that what he says about time in God is beyond human understanding.

Eastern theology acknowledges that there's something drastically wrong, even evil, about human beings (just not in the same sense as the Western Church), and it's because of Jesus» work as the «true human'that humanity may come closer to this vision.

Pius's vision may have been too insular and diplomatic; he was insufficiently concerned about protecting the human rights of non-Catholics; he seriously misjudged the significance of the concordat in legitimizing the Third Reich; and his treatment of the Catholic Center Party in Germany is deeply disturbing.

«Thus, devotion to the truth about man, regardless of the consequences for traditional preconceptions about the races, leads the scientific inquirer to facts that sustain the grand democratic vision of a ground for fundamental human unity which is simultaneously the source of personal variety and singularity.

The reason for this flexibility of method is not a desire to be «liberal» either in the sense of an optimistic vision of human nature in general or in the more restrictive methodological sense of being optimistic about the power of one's critical tools.

Beneath the various attempts to articulate the content of Christian faith lies a «vision of reality» with implications for beliefs about God, the world in general, human existence in particular, and even some historical events, especially about Jesus.

Jeremiah's vision of the new covenant which God would inscribe upon the human heart follows his bitter reflections about how little individuals or nations learn from their experience.

But there is nothing egalitarian about a moral vision that flows from understanding human dignity in terms of transcendence - seeking projects; and libertarians, under the brutalizing influence of Ayn Rand, seem to have become increasingly honest about the inegalitarian consequences of their agenda.

At about the same time, the Washington Post carried an article by Daniel Southerland entitled «The Staggering Human Cost of Mao's Vision.»

CNN: Seeking the truth about Jesus Jay Parini, author of the forthcoming book Jesus: The Human Face of God, writes that «there are probably as many visions of Jesus, and versions, as there are Christians,» which explains why «all attempts to classify Jesus seem hopelessly inadequate.»

about our powerlessness to penetrate in this sense beyond the primitive vision shared by the earliest human minds; that is to say, the impossibility of our advancing a step towards the direct or indirect perception of all that is hidden behind the veil of tangible experience!

Here, God appears as being absolutely sovereign and transcendent, so transcendent that there can be no human language about God, and so sovereign that God can be known only by way of the image of the Creator, and this is an «image» that negates all human vision of God, an image totally confining man to the creaturely realm, to the secular, or to the «world.»

How can a civilization that fails to make provision for the next generation» or even to bring about the next generation at all» hope to give a compelling account of itself before a world of competing visions of the human future?

There will be no human language about God, no human vision of God, no religious awareness of God: in short, it is only Godless man who can truly have faith in God.

Is this «vision» of how - it - is the best way to talk about and understand the human predicament?

The Christian «vision» that frames this principle disposes practical thinkers to adopt a «realist» stance in public life, resisting both naïve illusions about the possibilities for human goodness and cynical dismissals of moral accountability.

With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.

Martin also asks some telling questions about Rahner's remarkably optimistic vision of human nature — an optimism all the more astonishing since, as Martin notes, he spent almost his entire priestly life (1932 — 84) first under Nazi rule and then, after the Second World War, with half of Germany under Soviet Communism.

Professor Celia Deane - Drummond's book, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human peHuman Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human pehuman person.

And I still like it even though I understand and agree with your dislike of church «vision,» because this hymn isn't about a vision for the future of an organization, or a vision for any kind of institutionalized growth, but a vision of the constant presence of God in our lives, and in our very being, denying our need for material wealth and human approbation for the true spiritual fulfillment that comes from God.

This kind of interdisciplinary engagement may also have the side benefit of heightening the theorist's reflective awareness of the underlying sociological assumptions — about power, human nature, the main tendencies of social life and so on — that s / he inevitably makes in constructing a political vision of how the world ought to be.

«These new insights into the complexities of epigenetic regulation are contributing to our basic understanding of this process in human health and disease and gives us new vision for how to go about targeting errors in DNA methylation with innovative drug therapies.»

The vision of a nearly immortal populace squelching the job prospects of youth is reminiscent of 19th - century Luddite concerns about machines» taking over jobs from humans.

It features two openings set about the same distance apart as our own eyes, and detects colors in a manner similar to human vision.

Hubristic humans should heed the boom - and - bust vision of Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink's book, a grand synthesis of all that is known about evolution

«If this really holds water, it's an entry into the whole question — and it's a very divisive question — of what human aesthetics is all about,» says Purves, who usually studies the neuroscience of vision.

His vision is to archive everything there is to know about humans so that it might be safeguarded long after our species has disappeared.

It can discern 143 lines within one degree of the field of vision, while a human with excellent sight manages about 60.

«For a nice two decades scientists have dreamt about using human embryonic stem cells to treat diseases... that day has finally come... scientists have used human embryonic stem cells to successfully treat patients suffering from severe vision loss»

One of the most influential neuroscientists of our day, Ramachandran's groundbreaking work in phantom limbs, human vision, mirror neurons, synesthesia and conceptual metaphors has taught humanity more about that organ in our heads than anyone else.

«Her vision left an indelible mark on I Think We're Alone Now, which brings an extraordinarily thought provoking film about human connection to life.

Especially haunting are the visions Caesar has of Koba (Toby Kebbell), his now - deceased adversary from Dawn, who reappears to taunt Caesar that he was right all along about the worthlessness of humans.

It is all about a battle between humans and runaway robots, who are restricted to different zones, and a lower - class revolt against their leaders» oppressive vision.

Critics may carp about his sour vision of human nature, but he keeps plugging away at his micro-studies of the cruel struggle for interpersonal domination.

All sections of society must thrive to converge upon their visions and convictions and find common ground for collective action that can bring about the transformation required to ensure the wellbeing of all on the planet — humans as well as nature.

The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

I wrote a paper about how text has optimized for human vision when I worked on Microsoft's eBooks effort ten years ago.

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If you've ever wondered about the boundaries of humanity, More Than Human offers a vision of a world where we use our knowledge to improve ourselves, unhindered by the fear of change.

Another theory is that a dog's detail - oriented vision can detect small changes in the person's movements, changes that humans — even the person about to have the seizure — does not notice.

Your pet also has a much wider field of vision than humans do, but their acuity is limited to a range of about 20 feet.

They talk about guide dogs and the incredible work these dogs achieve every day to make their human partners who are blind or who have limited vision more independent and active!

I addressed additional concerns about genetically engineered ingredients and veterinary involvement with the pet food industry in my more recent book Healing Animals & the Vision of One Health: Earth Care and Human Care.

Beyond about 100 meters, human binocular vision can't tell the difference, so this will work even with an Oculus Rift.