Sentences with phrase «agents of history»

Goa's position as a significant port of trade and travel creates a unique cosmopolitan archive from which the various agents of history emerge.

Of all the lethal agents of history, from Socrates» hemlock down through the Borgias» legendary deadly elixirs and the nerve poisons of modern warfare, it is difficult to imagine a more insidiously homicidal poison than sodium fluoroacetate.

The final conclusion of the argument, then, depends upon appealing not only to the moral implications of faith in any situation, but also to the understanding of ourselves and of our fellow human beings as the agents of history that is pervasive of our situation today.

But more than that, they take on the far larger dignity of becoming moral agents of history.

Modern non-religious man assumes a new existential situation; he regards himself solely as the subject and agent of history, and he refuses all appeal to transcendence.

«Seven Easy Pieces», presented in 2005 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, presented Abramović as an agent of the history of performance art.

Not exact matches

«Papadopoulos» interaction with Russian agents, coupled with real - time evidence of Russian election interference, provided the Court with a broader context in which to evaluate Russia's clandestine activities and Page's history and alleged contact with Russian officials,» the document said.

It's a «wonderful piece of Florida history,» the agent says.

Page had a longtime history of connections with the Russian government — so much so that in 2013, Russian agents approached him with the intent of turning him into an asset (a point the Nunes memo never notes).

To do this in the specific context of social media requires that you integrate your business systems with your social platform, that your social customer care and marketing / pre-sales agents have access to customer history whenever and wherever they need it.

Any agent should be informed on the performance of given mutual funds and their history.

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

Revolutionary feminists employ a variation of the Marxist use of history as an agent of change in the revolution; they assert that history is a means for transformation of the feminine self - image, so that women may increase their self - esteem and actualize themselves fully rather than be suppressed as during patriarchal history.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

History is replete with the consequences of individuals who trumpeted themselves as their own moral agents.

In contrast to religious understanding of transcendence, Marx asserted that human beings shape the universe and their own destiny, and human being is not any more the object of history but its subject and agent.

The agent of God's presence and activity, the mediator of his reconciliation of the world unto himself, is a real figure of history.

«As a plain matter of fact, he has done more to start the nation toward a socialist order than all the agitation carried on by all the avowedly socialist agents in our national history» (March 22, 1933).

The identity I propose instead is an asymmetrical one: the agent is asymmetrically identical with his body and its history; and any one of his actions is asymmetrically identical with everything that happens in his body as he performs it.

«5 The ideology underlying this alliance might be summarized as follows: (1) There is a God (2) whose will can be known through democratic procedures; therefore (3) democratic America has been God's primary agent in history, and (4) for Americans the nation has been their chief source of identity.6

The beliefs of the founding generations then, whether Puritan or rationalist, whether inspired by Moses and Isaiah or by Locke and Montaigne, were conducive to a perspective that saw the American nation as the chief agent in the unfolding of history.

Those who do believe, obey and enforce what is already predetermined become true agents of the ultimate power of history — God, Allah, karma or dialectic — and will lead in time to the visible realization of the ultimate truth.

That choice is to recognize what the Bible and such exemplars of the Christian tradition as Augustine have taught us: to see and trust that the church and not any nation - state is preeminently the social agent through which God works God's will in history.

One of the most unpalatable lessons of history is that evil is often perpetrated by people who think they are doing good as midwives of progress, agents of natural selection, saviors of Christendom — whatever.

This heavenly messenger, God's special agent to usher in the new regime at the end of earthly history, came commonly to be spoken of as the Son of man.

Few practicing biblical scholars would take exception to this, even those who speak of God's acts in history, since these are generally viewed as mediated through the selfhood of human agents.

In an article first published in 1982, wonderfully titled «How Moral Agents Became Ghosts, or, Why the History of Ethics Diverged from That of the Philosophy of Mind,» MacIntyre writes, «At the beginning of modern moral philosophy — which I date in the 1780s — the moral agent as traditionally understood almost, if not quite, disappeared from view.

He shapes the universe and his own destiny, and thus he is not any more the object of history but its subject and agent.

This would be the return of Christ from Heaven to serve as God's agent in the final judgment and redemption, with which history would end and the life of the «world to come» would be fully inaugurated.

Now even a glance at the long course of eschatological reflection among the Jews will reveal that it was concerned predominantly with the culminating event of history and only in a secondary sense and measure with the personal agent through whom this event would be brought to pass.

Their thinking was largely affected by Jewish apocalyptic conceptions, according to which history had fallen under the dominion of demonic powers; when «the fullness of time» should come, God would engage these powers in battle, would defeat and destroy them and their human agents, and would inaugurate a new and unimaginable order of blessedness, righteousness and peace.

Protagoras speaks of man as the measure, thus emphasizing that humanity is the ultimate valuator but not necessarily the controlling agent in history or nature.

Alternatively, and in contrast to the first two positions, there is the view that value is rooted in a «moral universe» which can be at least fairly well known and approximated by man through his rational capacities; this moral universe participates in, yet in its fullness transcends, the actual shape of culture, history and human will; and the task of moral agents is to discover and act on the principles, laws and rules that this universe contains and reveals to the discerning moral conscience.

«Jesus of Nazareth, a man subject to all the relativity of history, and yet the agent of a unique, ever - present act of God.»

Through their ministry, we receive a guarantee that the full work, truth and love of Christ is not lost in history but remains ever present because it is He who is the source and agent of the sacrament these men have received.

He says:» The agent of God's presence and activity, the mediator of God's reconciliation of the world unto himself, is a real figure of history.

The relation of a human agent to his acts would be taken as an analogy for the relation of God to cosmic history.

«Mission» means «sending,» and it is the central biblical theme describing the purpose of God's action in human history, with the church being the primary agent of God's missionary action.

in Switzerland, but «Bread production relied on the use of sourdough as a leavening agent for most of human history; the use of baker's yeast as a leavening agent dates back less than 150 years.»

Let's quickly recap all of the reasons Harper will be the most expensive free agent in baseball history:

If they let Harper leave via free agency, do the Nationals slot Victor Robles in for Harper in right, wait for Juan Soto to develop, and then spend the money coming off the books and what they would have committed to Harper in what's thought of as one of the best free agent classes in baseball history next winter?»

None of the Niners» free - agent signings was a bigger gamble than that of Johnson, whose history of erratic behavior dates to his days at San Jose State, where he was thrown off the team during his senior season.

The behind - the - scenes story of how the most prized free agent in NFL history hit the recruiting trail — and how he ended up a Denver Bronco

According to the father of Alabama QB Jalen Hurts, if he is beat out by Tua Tagovailoa for the QB job with the Crimson Tide, he is expected to transfer and become the biggest free agent in CFB history:

Otani is just 22 now, and will be 23 when Nippon posts him to MLB next year, which will make him one of the most coveted free agents in major league history.

Other free agent tackles have long injury histories, but Cherilus has started 71 of 75 games since entering the NFL in 2008.

A constant problem with ranking free agents is that there's a distinct set of veteran players whose value is particularly hard to measure due to their history with their incumbent teams, their lack of actual availability and the fact that length of contract is often more of a sticking point than price.

A couple of weeks ago, when discussing the prospect of Mario Balotelli signing with Roma, we mentioned the obvious pitfalls to that deal (mostly Balotelli's checkered history) but there was actually another, fiercer demon to tangle with — his agent Mino Raiola.

Certainly the hope of midwives and lactation consultants is to prevent any incidence of eczema through obtaining a thorough history, identifying atopy, eczema, allergic and irritant contact dermatitis and eliminating such agents from the environment.

Now in Enemies Within he looks at the history of how the Soviet Union recruited a wide range of agents in Britain, Europe and America over a fifty year period.