Sentences with phrase «become ideal objects»

In a summary of Whitehead's position, mathematics is abstracted from human experience to become ideal objects which initially represent general things that are symbolized in classes by variables.

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Scandalously to oversimplify his argument, it is, says Heidegger, the history of this nihilistic impulse to reduce being to an object of the intellect, subject to the will, that has brought us at last to the age of technology, for which reality is just so many quanta of power, the world a representation of consciousness, and the earth a mere reserve awaiting exploitation; technological mastery has become our highest ideal, and our only real model of truth.

Now there's The Neon Demon, completing a trilogy of sorts by talking about the difficulties of being a girl becoming a woman and an object for men, eviscerated in certain tabernacles where women are worshiped as ideals and sacrificed to the same.

His work is a stylish reflection on daily objects and their representation as an ideal, the functional nature of these objects disappears and they become aesthetic objects.

He became interested in Abstract Expressionism during his studies at Black Mountain College and used mainly found objects in his art until 1957 when the rusty carcase of an abandoned old Ford struck him as the ideal embodiment of his artistic vision.