Sentences with phrase «essence of human existence»

This exhibition, «Iperfluo» (Hyperfluous), was based on a philosophical reflection on stone, playing the durability of the mineral world against the relatively ephemeral essence of human existence.

How effective do you find this structure in capturing the essence of human existence or «life»?

It is of the essence of human existence that man lives not by knowledge, but by faith.

Not exact matches

In another sense, it is also true to say that existence precedes essence, and the metaphysical view is consequently wrong in denying it, for essence in this case is defined within the world of interpersonal relationships, within the world of history and human society, within the world of reason itself which Teilhard would call the noosphere.

Ockham rejected the real existence of a human nature because he had concluded that one can only know particular individuals and that universals that can be applied to multiple individuals, such as human nature, or the essence of a dog or a tree, or properties such as white or black, square or round were only names that we create in our mind.

Technology is, in essence, a mode of human existence...» [xvii] «It remains true, nonetheless, that man in the technological age is, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing» to the degree that such revealing «reveals the real as standing - reserve.»

Marx and Engels accepted this interpretation but strongly criticized Feuerbach for assuming that this essence can be realized in human existence by moral willing of it.

The human body is the special concern of Merleau - Ponty, and ambiguity is of the essence of human bodily existence.

In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of human activity, a need for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the human person over all the economic and social mechanisms which oppress him.

I write romance because I believe that when you boil all of life down to its essence, if you take a human being to the very core of his existence, then you will find that what matters more than anything else is to be loved and to give love.

Both Untitled # 20 and Untitled # 7 stand as a victorious tribute to the work of an artist who spent her career trying to capture human existence's true essence.