Sentences with phrase «ancient debate»

Behind the altogether human fascination with power games that turns the visual arts into journalistic cotton candy, ancient debates still percolate and shape what we are seeing and what we understand.

Please consider that your orthodox views are not right just because they won out in the ancient debate.

2 There is an ancient debate regarding whether all human action (and, therefore, all political action) is solely in pursuit of self - interest.

That the science — and presumably changes in it — could so explicitly shape their philosophical conclusions is the primary difference between the ancient debates on embryology and the modern one.

In the ancient debates, scientists and philosophers used criteria such as reaction to stimuli, modes of nutrition, and origin of motion to determine when the embryo receives a soul and can be considered a person.

What the ancient debates on the question of the embryo have in common is a scientific adherence to what is empirically known about the embryo.

In reality, Novak notes, «the ancient debate between the person and the community [has] been changed by the American experience.»

If people carry the ancient debate in their bones, they're not likely to mistake a Pelagian dream — disarmament — for an Augustinian one — divine redemption.

Through the ancient debates in the church it was concluded that «Christ» referred not simply to a human being but also to God.

Tocqueville suggests that the terms of the ancient debate between the person and the community (between personalism and solidarism, as certain Europeans put it in the 1930s) have been changed by the American experience.

In this guide, we will delve into the ancient debate of «clean» vs. «dirty» foods and what really makes sense physiologically speaking.

In the United States, the ancient debate that Bennett revisits has reinvented itself as a struggle between the standardized assessors, anxious to inject knowledge into students, most especially those most in need of social and economic advancement, and the constructivists, eager to coach, to discuss, to explore the «natural» learning instincts of every child.