Sentences with phrase «art of being human»

Hey Sigmund «Where the Science of Psychology Meets the Art of Being Human» https://www.heysigmund.com/

I've had the pleasure to catch up with the amazing storyteller Celinne da Costa who've just published the bo «The art of being human».

Not exact matches

Dave and Helen Edwards, co-founders of artificial intelligence research firm Intelligenstia.ai, don't go so far as to suggest a specific course of study, but like Kalt they have publicly insisted that if you want your kids to thrive in an AI - filled future, you better teach them how to handle human beings, unpredictability, and complexity, all of which a liberal arts degree forces you to confront and grow comfortable with.

Art Markman, PhD is a professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations, which brings the humanities, social and behavioral sciences to people in business.

Big losers will include our cultural institutions, including the CBC and the Canada Council who will likely face further devastating cuts, as well as human rights, international development and arts organizations who were funded historically by the Canadian government (some of whom had already lost funding under the minority Conservative government).

CryptoPunks are 24x24 pixel art images which are algorithmically generated and predominately male and female humans with a smattering of other characters such as zombies, apes, and aliens.

He was an EVP of Electronic Arts (EA,) responsible for global Human Resources and Talent Management.

Those who believe all combat sports are immoral, even those who choose to see mixed martial arts as «human cockfighting,» a degradation of Marquess of Queensberry orthodoxy, would have seen nothing to change their minds at the dome.

With that musing in mind, I was interested to read this reflection from Roger Kimball, in his TLS review of Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution:

It was obvious to me at that time that where there is art, there is an Artist, and I realize this most of all every time I look at another human being.

In that context, the charitable reading of the tweet is that Father Spadaro was reminding us of the obvious — that pastoral care is an art, and that the priest dealing with complicated and messy human situations is not like a first - grade teacher drilling six - year olds in addition.

Poetry, art, philosophy... there are plenty of other outlets for humans to explore metaphysics and other deep thoughts.

By Trapani's account, Maritain was able to show how art and poetry bring together two infinities: the irreducible complexity of human personality («the Self») with the superabundant mystery of being («the Things»).

The dilemma of art and propaganda is essentially a tremor of the seismic human dilemma of living in a divinely created but fallen world.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

Thus, language, law, science, art, manners, customs, history, and tradition are elaborations of the human spirit no less than is religion.

The imitation theory of the truth of art has at least this on its side: in a sense a good story, a true story, is «true to» the structure of human experience.

Arnold's view of culture was filtered through poetry and literature, but it was ultimately human conduct, not art, that concerned him.

But we can expect the best works of art to illuminate and affirm essential human and moral truths — and these will be consistent with Scripture.

Yet so similar are the sources in the human spirit that through all ages, and not in Christianity alone, the worship of God has found natural expression in music and song, poetry and the graphic arts, the drama of sacrificial rites, and where not inhibited by convention, the dance.

In the case of aphasic speech, for example, the body remains that «instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul» (AI 349), but the final artist merely lives off his previous acquisitions.

Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.

We rightly reject the sort of spiritual shallowness which expresses itself in an affected superiority in the presence of the extraordinary richness of human life, that underplays the wonder and the joy of married love, and at the same time (there is a connection) depreciates the worlds of natural beauty and of the arts.

A comparable humanization of the sacred was taking place throughout the Christian West during the Middle Ages, but Malraux insists that it was not the human but the sacred that «disappeared» in Gothic art.

But it recognized Christ solely in terms of communion and this is why no other art in any other civilization ever caused the sacred to embody so much of the human and so fully expressed the sacred through the human.2

Art is one of the great facilitators of human dialogue, and it provides us as well with....

In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.

The expression of art — the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms — is unique to human beings.

The conviction that this something must be both subject to empirical scientific examination, and workable in the sense of allowing and demanding human effort, was stronger in the last period than in the earlier years, very certainly because of the awesome advances in science, and especially in the arts of war.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

In any case, these words about painting are a fitting description of Davies's own narrative art, provocative in its «farcing out» of Christian tradition and powerful in its evocation of our human depth and variety.

The eros of our human nature can be expressed as equally in kissing as it can in great art.

This is primarily because it has proven to be a powerful aid in the effort to avoid dealing with works of art or literature as products of the human spirit: aesthetic objects that move us with their intricately wrought beauty, humor, and insight.

Furthermore, art is artificial and finite, representing the juncture of appearances in reality and human creativity.

When these come together in art, the result is a heightened sense both of the conscious appearance of reality and of human creativity.

But this track does something that so much great art — even biblical poetry — does, that is searching for God in the midst of the world's chaos and messy lives of human beings.

When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century — those involving politics, trade, consumption, art — we leave out what is surely the most astonishing physical change in all of human history, one that has happened mostly during the last century: the doubling of the human life span in much....

The hard thing would be to manage these efforts without maiming art, treading on human rights, and repeating all the imbalances of some past reformations of manners.

Most imaginatively of all, he claims that «the basic categories of art appreciation, importance, interest, contrast, and novelty, are also the basic categories of mutual human appreciation» (WPP 95).

This is probably where human art for the sake of beauty has its origins — like all primates we're pretty dull looking.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

At the other end is a glorious, heavenly city full of human creations, art, and technology.

This could happen, Luther said, because of the realized mystery of sinners» participation in the cross of Jesus Christ, which was itself the participation of the self - revealing God in the cross of human brokenness, the «state of the art» of human living.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.

The cynicism that pervades contemporary cultural life must be replaced by a deep confidence in the human purposes and importance of art.

In one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fields.

In literature and the arts valuing affects the relation of the arts to human life and the critical standards by which the intrinsic merit of works of art are judged.

Sometimes these imperfect human beings find things like arts and literature that explain the truth of what is to be human better than science and history.

I would point out, however, that billions of other human beings, in every time and place, have had similar experiences â $ «but they had them while thinking about Krishna, or Allah, or the Buddha, while making art or music, or while contemplating the sheer beauty of nature.