Sentences with phrase «classical ideas about»

At a time when moralisers can not give any real meaning to classical ideas about right and wrong, they try instead to make people feel guilty about their impact on the environment.

On the other side of the exhibition, Sérgio Sister recontextualizes classical ideas about the canvas as a window in his exploration of the intricate relationship between colors when they interact with space and air.

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Ideas, thoughts, as well as deeper emotional or «affective» states, are included in this category where the classical writers would place meditation, contemplation, and the various stages of «union with God» about which the mystics have given us reports.

There we find, in the classical atomic theory, the first appearance of the idea that space is a neutral insulator; and at about the same time, the antithetic view that it is a perfect superconductor.

Classical Greek philosophers, about 500 BC, formalized the concept of «Destiny» through stories anthropomorphizing the idea of «fate».

Classical theism is a beautiful way of thinking about thinking, and for those who are passionate about pure thought, there is no idea more beautiful than the idea that God is like our ideas.

The germ of this idea was already known to Whitehead, and to the mathematician F. Klein, both of whom speculated about its use in classical mechanics (Whitehead 1898).

Rousseau's ideas about the common good and citizenship place him in a classical tradition of republican thought that was mostly hostile to commerce and commercial society.

Not only does it seem that modern industry is at odds with classical virtue, but the classical idea of a virtuous citizenry seems to fit uneasily with modern ideas about the equality of persons.

The concept of absolute originality is a contemporary one, born with Romanticism; classical art was in vast measure serial, and the «modern» avant - garde (at the beginning of this century) challenged the Romantic idea of «creation from nothingness,» with its techniques of collage, mustachios on the Mona Lisa, art about art, and so on.