Sentences with phrase «early modern thought»

Cavanaugh points out that the Fall had been dropped from early Modern thought not for any scientific reasons but for political expediency — to protect civil authority from interference by the Church.

In contrast to almost all earlier modern thought, he argued that science dealt only with the world of phenomena.

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When you think about it, the iPhone appears in 2007 and the company's first truly competitive response to that that takes it into the modern era really doesn't come till early 2013.

Baseball Though the origins of baseball seemed unclear in that one article I think I remember reading on Wikipedia, the modern - day game was first invented in the early 1800s by Abner Doubleday's father, Ken Burns.

If you think of Ivan as a sort of early modern boss, you can begin to understand why a passive aggressive manager is a dangerous manager.

Early on, Modern Meadow decided to focus on leather materials rather than meat because that's where it thought it could have the most impact.

For this reason we probably ought to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish thought — the former being that modern phenomenon all democratic persons are eager to combat; the latter the expressions of hostility or dislike found in earlier periods as a result of the specific religious and historical role the Jews and their antagonists have played.

It is, however, a mentality that Dawson seeks to capture, and he grounds it historically in the emergence of late medieval / early modern urbanites whose place in society Dawson thinks contributed to a view of persons as isolated individuals, disconnected from the land and from one another.

A life - denying lifestyle had no place in the matrix of early modern black consciousness; such thinking was recognized and condemned as anti-black.

Process thought is usually defined in one of three ways: (1) as any view of reality that is dynamic and relational and based on the findings of modern science, (2) identified with «the Chicago School,» the University of Chicago Divinity School, both in its earlier phase of applying evolutionary theory to historical research, seeing religion as a dynamic movement that reconstitutes itself in response to felt needs, as well as its later philosophical phase, and (3) synonymous with the philosophy of Whitehead and Hartshorne.

The whole animistic approach to man, which in both religious thought and philosophical analysis can be traced back to man's earliest attempts to understand himself, has been destroyed by the modern sciences most closely related to the study of man.

In the early modern period, political thinkers formulated a new conception of natural law, whose distinctive character has defined a distinctively modern tradition of thought about natural or human rights.

Early modern thinkers rightly saw that this preoccupation with teleology had misdirected much thought and research.

Somebody earlier in these comments asked what Jefferson would think of modern conservative Christians.

Thus the focus of both Whitehead's diagnostic statements, already quoted, is upon the substance - quality categories (or mode of thought) which makes these two texts consistent with one another and with a third such statement occurring earlier in Process and Reality: «All modern philosophy hinges round the difficulty of describing the world in terms of subject and predicate, substance and quality, particular and universal» (PR 78).

This is a subject or self - consciousness which becomes deeply reborn in early modernity, thence being renewed in a uniquely modern apocalyptic thinking, only to be absolutely negated in Nietzsche's apocalyptic dissolution of the «I,» an «I» which he could know as the creation of ressentiment.

In the early days of what we know as modern science, the hard sciences — physics, chemistry, astronomy — were thought to be (and often thought themselves) the enemies of revelation and biblical religion.

Yet if Palmer is correct, as I think he is, in taking objectivism to be the epistemology that informs the practices of the modern university, and if I am correct in suggesting that James and others had already fashioned powerful alternative theories of knowledge as early as 1880, a vital historical question arises.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

Searching for the source of the main current in modern philosophical thought, he focuses on the failure of early modern «naturalists» to address the anomalies in their metaphysical beliefs.

The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch thinks that the relative neglect of the problem of death in modern secular thought is due to the unconscious influence of inherited Christian views: «Thus in its ability to suppress the anxiety of all earlier times, apparently this quite shallow courage [of modern secular people] feasts on a borrowed credit card.

Is a man who still thinks and talks like this as an adult caught in the stage of development modern psychology terms the anal stage because of mistakes made in his early upbringing?

This individualism dominated thought about society throughout the early modern period and has shaped much of late modern thought as well.

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

It is to be remembered that Christianity began with an apocalyptic proclamation of the end of history, one which dominated the earliest Christian communities, and one which was renewed at each of the great crises or turning points of Christian history, just as it was renewed in each of our great modern political revolutions, and equally if not more deeply renewed in the advent of our deepest modern thinking and imaginative vision.

Paleo experts took note of our modern - day behavior and thought, if obesity and disease rates are rising as quickly as processed foods are flying off shelves, maybe we should go back to our roots and eat like our early ancestors did?

Many modern supermarket shoppers don't give it a thought, but visitors to Old Sturbridge Village's «From Field to Table» weekend Oct. 19 - 20 will see firsthand how important locally - grown foods were in early New England — and how much work went into the harvest.

When we think of all the horror stories we've been told about what will happen if we don't follow a laundry list of rules about how to raise our children in today's modern, Western society, you can bet that pretty much none of it applied to our early ancestors (or even other cultures today).

But, to back up our modern - day, Western culture definition, it is thought that the work TYKE is an acronym for Training Young Kids for Early Success.

No modern equivalent of the Red Paper on Scotland, or The Future of Socialism, or Arguments for Democracy — or even the Orange Book, which helped perk up Lib Dem ideas, or the series of Blue Books on policy that underpinned David Cameron's early thinking.

And recent finds in Africa have pushed back the start date for our species» long love affair with the material, hinting that modern human cognition may have developed much earlier than we thought.

BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.

People were once thought to have ancient psyches ill - suited to modern existence, but they have adapted much more quickly than early theories had predicted

«This means that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought,» says Mattias Jakobsson, population geneticist at Uppsala University who headed the project together with Stone Age archaeologist Marlize Lombard at the University of Johannesburg.

«We are not claiming that Morocco became the cradle of modern humankind,» Hublin says, «We think early forms of humans were present all over Africa.»

It also appears that humans were writing words with the modern alphabet much earlier than previously thought.

The giraffids, a family of ruminants that includes modern day giraffes and okapis, are thought to have existed as far back as the early Miocene epoch.

Pääbo, for his part, says that now that his team has shown that early modern humans interbred with one archaic group, he thinks other archaic humans might have passed along genes to us through interbreeding.

The findings lend support to the idea that these early modern humans were more advanced with maritime technology than previously thought, and that they were capable of thriving on small, geographically isolated islands.

DEEP PAST A new comparison of ancient and modern human DNA concludes that Homo sapiens emerged earlier than typically thought, perhaps around 350,000 years ago.

«Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa: Analysis of fossil suggests Homo sapiens left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.»

In «Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen,» Wall explores the subversive, witty and largely undocumented ways that women of the period used recipes and food to do everything from read, write and treat illness to wax philosophic about issues still debated today.

Whether it is modern medicine's prolonging of life or the fashioning of hunting tools in earliest times, it is hard to think of any milestone in human progress that did not have a technological breakthrough behind it.

They are now considered to have been intelligent (as smart as early modern humans, some anthropologists think), perhaps red - haired and pale - skinned, and capable of speech.

«I think early modern humans viewed Neanderthals as a different group, as «the other,»» he says.

The dates, based on new excavations and state - of - the - art methods, push back the earliest solid evidence for humans in Australia by 10,000 to 20,000 years and suggest that modern humans left Africa earlier than had been thought.

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He was expecting to find the remains of an early modern human — Neanderthals were thought to be long extinct by that time — but the boy's skeleton was different.

By using highly advanced brain imaging technology to observe modern humans crafting ancient tools, an Indiana University neuroarchaeologist has found evidence that human - like ways of thinking may have emerged as early as 1.8 million years ago.