Sentences with phrase «by classical concepts»

This form of landscape art was governed by classical concepts, and typically featured classical ruins, and pastoral figures in classical dress.

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Schwartz borrowed this concept from Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, who developed it as a realistic alternative to the notion of the «utility maximizer» presupposed by classical economics: For example, if a supermarket chain attempted to calculate the very best alternative before deciding where to place a new store, the research costs would bankrupt it, while more intrepid competitors would move in.

The primary difference between the process concept of God as creator - preserver of the world and that of classical theism is that the former insists God ought not be conceived as aloof to and unaffected by what happens in the world.

These assumptions, which have their origins in a theologically motivated rejection of a classical understanding of God and creation, lead by an easy path to the view that human beings fully realize themselves by producing concepts that give us mastery over limitless possibilities — first mastery over nature, then over ourselves.

He holds that classical concepts are «forms of perception» imposed by man.

By the next century, however, the dialectic of classical theoria was evident in the scholastic conceptualism which put concepts and logic before understanding, so that knowledge was misunderstood as an intuition of nexi between concepts.

But when criticizing the concept of God affirmed by classical free will theism, process theists seem to reverse their position by arguing that a being who could coerce should at times do so.

So, he claims, though the logical types objection is very powerful (and is devastating for classical theism), it is met by his di - polar concept of God.

The vision of social civility bequeathed us by the Enlightenment with the collaboration of religious institutions extended classical Greek and Roman concepts of democracy from an aristocracy to the life of the people, giving us a truly participatory democracy in the early years of the republic.

In his study of Goethe's epic Hermann und Dorothea Humboldt discusses the function of art as idealization by means of the imagination, the concept of artistic objectivity and artistic truth, the difference between classical and modern poetry, and finally, the epic as the genre of humanitas (Humanität).

The author evolves a hermeneutics of Revelation by entering into a dialectic between the concept of biblical revelation as seen in various types of biblical discourse, and the concept of philosophical reason that engages classical and contemporary philosophy in their own categories.

At the same time, by thinking of Whiteheadian societies as ongoing structured fields of activity for their constituent actual occasions, I think that I can remedy one of the classical defects of the Hartshornean concept of God vis - á - vis the Whiteheadian.

Inspired by the building's historic, classical revival architecture, Parts and Labor Design developed a concept that celebrates the old — with luxurious midcentury accents — and honors the new, with a laid back, tropical setting where diners can listen to live music, dance, and enjoy great latin american fare.

The classical concepts of angiogenesis consider the endothelial cells within tumors as a rather passive cell population that merely reacts in response to growth factors released by the tumor cells.

It explains the key principles of classical (Newtonian) mechanics in a clear, structured and detailed manner, taking the hand of the reader step - by - step through the basic concepts and math of physics, and then connecting advanced subjects to introductory ones to aid comprehension.

A second - century Roman bust of a goddess, for example, will be paired with unusual portrait busts made of chocolate and soap by contemporary artist Janine Antoni in an effort to explore classical concepts of beauty.

... By 1949, when urban, classical, tribal, and primordial imagery had been successively eliminated from his work and his shapes gradually enlarged, Rothko devised the concept of pictorial «clarity» as «the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer.

With reference points ranging from Sudanese cliff dwellings and Native American amphitheaters to classical Greek forms to the mobile structures of nomadic and seafaring groups, Rudofsky's stated goal was to «break down our narrow concepts of the art of building by introducing the unfamiliar world of nonpedigreed architecture» — a notable early instance of non-Eurocentric thinking in the American art establishment.

Mikkel Carl is inspired by art theoretical and culture critical movements such as the historical avant - garde, the «60s neo-avant-garde, postmodern appropriation art and the»90s relational aesthetics, all of which tried to challenge the classical art institution and the existing concept of art.

The Barcelona chair was intended as a modern throne concept; a thick cushion upholstered in luxurious leather and set upon a curved metal frame in the shape of an X, a shape inspired by classical furniture.