Sentences with phrase «contemporary human concerns»

Now let me comment on how I relate to contemporary human concerns in my basically hermeneutical theology.

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For historical precedents in the West to the contemporary concern with individual animals, see selections from Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Salt in Animal Rights and Human Obligations.

It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.

In the same way, as I argued in the introduction to Stepping Stones to a Global Ethic, the contemporary concern for human rights, even if expressed in the thought forms of the Enlightenment, is grounded in faith traditions.28

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

His work humorously reflects on his observation of human behavior and interaction, and contemporary cultural and political concerns.

Kim's practices consistently navigate his distinct nostalgic and imaginative sensibility towards human perception and concerns of contemporary image culture.

Her ideas explore contemporary social, economic or political concerns of today such as, the widening gap between social classes, gentrification, feminism, and human rights.

Merike Estna's works echo contemporary social concerns with allusions to the digital, the nostalgic, and a romantic reverence for the parts of human existence that are currently mutating, melting, and slipping away.

A scattered stack of books on Pozanti's studio floor — meditations on machines and the human mind and various innovations in between — is fodder for her upcoming exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, «Deep Learning,» concerned with what differentiates humans from artificial intelligence systems (AIs).