Sentences with phrase «as modern conceptions»

Though American moviegoers didn't take to this film and many might find it falls short of complete satisfaction, there is no doubt plenty about Howl's worth admiring, whether you are well - versed in Miyazaki or simply open to something unusual as far as modern conceptions of animation go.

The irony of the inappropriate laughter signals defiance to what Deleuze describes as a modern conception of «the law,» which «defines a realm of transgression where one is already guilty, and where one oversteps the bounds without knowing what they are... Even guilt and punishment do not tell

Not exact matches

None of these is necessarily «supernatural» insofar as several conceptions are quite compatible with modern findings in physics and biology.

... Bénéton shows that scientism, even though it is not relativistic itself, functions as an «accomplice» to the dogmatic relativism fostered by the modern conception of equality.

As modern knowledge advances and hitherto insoluble problems are solved, a good deal of religion will be seen to be based on false premises, to be inadequate for modern conceptions of the universe, or to be little more than a collection of superstitious taboos.

Jesus expresses no conception of a human ideal, no thought of a development of human capacities, no idea of something valuable in man as such, no conception of the spirit in the modern sense.

The problem may not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true about Christian morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the human person.

The distinctively modern conception of natural law emerged as an effort to articulate common moral principles notwithstanding disagreement about the highest or inclusive good.

The categorical imperative to «treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.

The problem with this conception of gross destructiveness as inherent in modern warfare, though, is that it is a contingent judgment being made to do service as a permanent truth.

Second, Aquinas» conception of just war was the reference point for later theorists at the beginning of the modern era, including both Catholic theorists such as Vitoria, Molina, Soto, and Suarez, and Protestants such as Luther, Ames, and Grotius.

This conception of just war was passed to the early modern age and known and used by such theorists as the Neoscholastics Vitoria, Soto, Molina, and Suarez, by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, the Puritan theologian William Ames, the theologically trained jurist Hugo Grotius, and others at the dawn of the modern era.

Earlier I identified, in order to fault it, the conception that all modern war is inherently indiscriminate and disproportionate in its destruction, so that modern war as such must be opposed.

There is no conception of God as concrete in Science and the Modern World.

Aristotle provided MacIntyre with an account of why our actions require a conception of an end as well as the social and political conditions necessary to sustain a life formed by the virtues constitutive of that end that is simply lacking in modern moral practice and theory.

The only relevant question for the theologian is the basic assumption on which the adoption of a biological as of every other Weltanschauung rests, and that assumption is the view of the world which has been molded by modern science and the modern conception of human nature as a self - subsistent unity immune from the interference of supernatural powers.

There is no belief in the inner superiority of spirit over nature, no conception of struggle between spirit and nature, nor of the inner growth which man can win in the battle with nature; there is lacking also the specifically modern pessimistic estimate of the world such as has received poetic expression from Strindberg or Spitteler.

As to method, the older view was rooted in the traditional ecclesiastical theory of Mark's derivation from Matthew — which modern Synoptic study completely reverses — and it took for granted a conception of «Paulinism» which made the Apostle to the Gentiles responsible for everything in primitive Christianity which could not be squared with a crass, reactionary Christian Judaism; it completely ignored the development of a Gentile type — or types — of Christianity apart from and even prior to the work of Paul.

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.

Modern Christianity says that Jesus is the only True Son of God, I Totally Disagree with this Concept, thru out History long before Christ was Born in different cultures there have been «Crusified Saviors» and alot of them had the same history as Christ, Born of holy Conception, confronted the «Devil», «Born December 25th suppossely, and Crucified.

(If a considerable number of Psalms go back to the prophetic period or earlier, as some modern critics hold (in opposition to the view which prevailed thirty years ago), then there is additional support for the view that there was no such radical change from collective to individual conceptions at the Exile as has often been asserted.

Thus in the modern conception, the physical existent as «matter» was in itself completely devoid of activity or agency — it was strictly «inert,» as Kepler was the first to characterize it; it was «movable» but could not move itself, as Newton insisted.

Here is a question to ponder: If, as Professor Amar insists, that clause incorporated the Bill of Rights and gave us the modern conception of individual liberty, does he wish to suggest that it would also justify the result in Roe v. Wade?

One way to contrast archaic and modern society, or rather the modern West and all traditional societies, archaic or historic, is to point out, as Louis Dumont following Alexis de Tocqueville has been doing in recent years, that traditional societies are characterized by hierarchy whereas modern societies are characterized by equality — at least in ideal.6 This contrast is rooted not just in political ideology but in fundamental conceptions of the nature of reality.

Ivan ends as a misanthrope, I maintain, because he has a modern secular conception of freedom that is incapable of fulfillment except by monstrous supermen.

Just as conception is always a two - person job (even with modern fertility methods), be sure to keep everything else related to the child a partnership.

Modern moderate republicans are not as elitist as Madison in their conception of democracy, but I think that tendency to elitism has not been entirely erased from the republican revival.

DNA plays a central role in modern conceptions of identity, but as our understanding of genetic science improves, so too does our understanding of what makes us who we are.

I understand with some of these items an alternative is difficult as modern food conceptions are so far removed from a traditional pale diet.

Instead he stands on the threshold of what modern America is turning into and spends the film struggling to reconcile the conception of how he has lived (as seen through his aging, dying father) and how that may have to be adapted or abandoned to survive.

As for the CGI animals, Peyton gives them plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc, although at least one or two of those sequences feels better in conception than execution: though the large - scale destruction is all masterfully rendered — and it must be noted, brutally violent for a PG - 13 movie — he like many other modern filmmakers gets too close to the action, mistaking incomprehensibility for claustrophobia, and seems either unaware of or uninterested in even the basic physics of gravity, falling objects, and so on.

The earlier conception of the role of fertilizers as being that of making «two blades of grass grow where only one grew before» has given way to the more modern understanding of their function as being to make a crop yield $ 2 where only one was yielded before.

While it differs from a modern conception of the spiritual, the exchange between the work and the viewers themselves takes shape as a rapid back - and - forth, push - and - pull of physical - mental sensations, resulting in a more connected and unified body - mind, or some other state of elevated consciousness.

Surveying the Body: Modern and Post-Modern Figurative Work from the Collection December 14,1997 - July 1998 Spanning a diverse range of work from the 1930s through the present, «Surveying the Body» explores shifting conceptions of the human figure as articulated through painting.

It stands as not just a building but a collection, a museum, and a conception of modern art as well.

Limited Functionality Mode is continued exploration of day - to - day rituals by means of analysis of reality perception through a bureaucratic lens and conception of the modern office life as the world behind the looking - glass.

Keynote Talk + Discussion Dave Beech Thursday 12 December, 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm, Lecture Room, IMMA Beauty and the Revolutionary Subject In this talk Dave Beech (London - based artist, writer and Senior Lecturer, Chelsea College of Art,) discusses the emergence of the modern conception of beauty and the cultural politics of this recent phenomenon, as well as contextualizing contested debates on beauty in artistic practice within the broader history of aesthetics.

«Rodin's conception of the body as expressive of his subjects» psychic condition, and his embrace of the fragment as a motif in its own right, deeply influenced the trajectory of modern sculpture,» says Claudia Schmuckli, Curator - in - Charge, Contemporary Art and Programming, at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

The show pushes our conceptions of the boundaries of Indian abstraction by including works like 17th century Islamic tiles from the CSMVS permanent collection along with the selection of modern abstract works from the Foundation's collection.The layered interpretation of Indian abstraction as well as the inclusion older works, usually unmentioned in this modern context, make this a show a must see.

Henda's four - channel video installation and his three interconnected photography - series are also picking up on Dubai as an allegory for the conception, realization and destruction of modern cities; which to him makes perfect sense.

Absent encounters with the real world (such as how the complexity of the modern world makes «total knowledge» for decision making essentially impossible for individuals so that they can consciously choose their level of risk in purchases in the market place), perhaps like how Communism might appeal to many absent considering how the ideology has confronted reality, this Libertarian conception has great appeal.