Sentences with phrase «feature of the human condition»

Faith of some sort seems to be a central feature of the human condition.

It's not simply that we were in the loins of our ancestors, that we have their DNA or something like that, but rather, a perennial feature of the human condition is that we are in bondage to one pharaoh, one lord or another, and we stand in need of liberation.

If these selves are not partially capable of self - determination and thus partly free to wish, choose, and act in independence of the rest of the universe, then they are not distinct selves at all but are indistinguishable from a cosmic causal system.35 Similarly, as explained above, Hartshorne holds that love in the form of sympathy, either immediate or mediate, is a fundamental feature of the human condition and of the total cosmos.

«violent force and nonviolent force» must be replaced by a definition that sees violence as «the imposition of one's will upon another» and that recognizes violence as «an inescapable feature of the human condition.»

As Frederick Dainton said in his review in New Scientist of Levi's The Periodic Table (Review, 5 December 1985): «Every chapter... resonates with some feature of the human condition.»

In addition, the researchers noted, there are no large animal models for age - related macular degeneration that faithfully replicate features of the human condition.

Still, neuroscientists often turn to rodents to study specific features of these human conditions.

But these liberal arts authoritarians clearly lack an understanding of a central feature of the human condition — that we are all imperfect.

Our capacity to cope with adversity and in some cases, be strengthened by it, is an astounding feature of the human condition.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

But we observe, in passing, the major features of the new human condition, announced and foretold in God's speech to the newly awakened pair, within which the story of man and woman will hereafter — and irreversibly — unfold.

Thus that perception of external control which is so essential a feature in conversion might, in some cases at any rate, be interpreted as the orthodox interpret it: forces transcending the finite individual might impress him, on condition of his being what we may call a subliminal human specimen.

The flood and the subsequent new start for the world are thus used as an opportunity to switch from the theoretic «golden age» to the conditions actually obtaining; and one of the saddest features of this change is the degradation of relations between humans and animals from their first created beauty.

Together, our results identify SCYL1 as a key regulator of motor neuron survival, and Scyl1 -LRB-- / --RRB- mice share pathological features with many human neurodegenerative conditions.

I am nowadays more convinced than I formerly was by the arguments of the «obligate terrestrial school»; for example Latimer (1991) lists quite a number of features of the lower limb that resemble the human condition and no other, such as that the hallux (big toe) of A. afarensis is not abductable as would be required for grasping.

Through these features, members get to know how others are fighting this condition and still living the life of a normal human being who has everything in life to be happy about.

Yorgos Lanthimos» bizarre explorations of the human condition have steadily increased in star power over the years, moving from the relative unknowns who played the deranged family in Dogtooth, up to his recent The Lobster, which featured a star - studded cast that included Colin Farrell, Ben Whishaw, and Léa Seydoux.

Pathologic accumulation of lipofuscin in the RPE is also a feature of several human diseases, including fundus flavimaculatus (Stargardt's disease)[43], but at this point it remains unclear which human condition is most closely modeled by Swedish vallhund PRA.

Instead of aiming to elevate the medium by making games that are more socially responsible — which by my estimation reduces quickly down to a feature driven approach that ultimately offers little more than cheap didactic moralizing, our aim should be instead to empower our creative visionaries to explore the human condition through their work.

Featuring work by Huma Bhabha, Tony Cragg and Sarah Lucas, Bumped Bodies is the final chapter in the ISelf Collection displays, a private collection of contemporary art which focuses on personal identity and the human condition.

Objects Like Us features tabletop art objects by fifty - six artists and sets out to «explore the relational behaviour of intimately scaled objects that personify or embody a human condition or attribute.»

Alongside Eoghan Ryan's multi-faceted installation of new work, a publication was produced which further explores the conditions of the contemporary human body and features contributions from Hannah Black, Susan Conte, Sam Keogh, Laura Morrison, Joseph Noonan - Ganley, Eoghan Ryan, Linda Stupart and Nina Wakeford.

The publication explores the conditions of the contemporary human body and features contributions from Hannah Black, Susan Conte, Sam Keogh, Laura Morrison, Joseph Noonan - Ganley, Eoghan Ryan, Linda Stupart and Nina Wakeford.

Featured at the Venice Biennale's Morocco Pavilion exhibition entitled «Fundamental (ism) s,» this ecological phenomenon defies the conventions of housing, offering shelter from varying climatic conditions and supporting both human and plant life in the harsh desert.

Thomas Allen Harris is an award - winning director and President of Chimpanzee Productions, Inc. a company dedicated to producing unique audio - visual experiences that illuminate the human condition and the search for identity, family and spirituality, including feature length films, performances and live multimedia productions.

«Sunday» features a range of installation pieces in which Melvin examines the human condition through the lens of popular culture.

Similarly in our special feature Inside Burger Collection, Isa Cossement interviews Belgian conceptual artist Kris Martin, who makes indistinct modifications to found objects, exploring universal issues of the human condition.

Kiki Smith Reflection Under the title Reflection, the Barbara Gross Galerie is featuring a cycle of large - format works on paper by Kiki Smith dealing with the human condition and the subject of female artistry and home life.

From a variety of intergenerational perspectives, the featured artists broadly question how technology has reimagined the physical body — as avatar, container, prosthesis, shell, surrogate, telepresence, or otherwise — as well its ongoing ramifications for understanding the evolving human condition.

Since then, whenever the art sought to break or depart from the aesthetic and artistic issues of feature more cerebral, this trend was resumed on new foundations: the American abstract expressionism (decade of 1950) and the German neo-expressionism (decade of 1980), for example., by revaluing the drives emanating from the insides of the human condition, brought with them the recovery of brushstrokes and traces of gesture agile, whose ordination in the works, does without the project.