Sentences with phrase «from classical notions»

Although this idea of God differs from classical notions, two principal advantages should not be overlooked.

Not exact matches

Schwartz borrowed this concept from Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, who developed it as a realistic alternative to the notion of the «utility maximizer» presupposed by classical economics: For example, if a supermarket chain attempted to calculate the very best alternative before deciding where to place a new store, the research costs would bankrupt it, while more intrepid competitors would move in.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

What distinguishes Hobbes from the classical and Christian traditions and their modern continuers is the absence of any notion of God or the Good and a corresponding radical theoretical individualism.

These difficulties facing the classical atomic theory are well known: secondary qualities remain inexplicable; no meaning can be given to the notion of an external world outside of the sense organs of the observer; organic time must be reversible — which it is not; we can never choose among hypotheses, since all of our mental states follow «from necessity,» so we don't have theories, but can only report autobiographies, and so on.

The classical statement of the notion is to be found, of course, in the speeches which Plato records from Socrates, or which he has put into the mouth of Socrates, in the dialogues which tell of the last days and death of that great and noble man.

The classical «negative liberty» notion, where individual freedoms were a prerequisite for economic prosperity, met a sorry end as Britain's increasingly complex society required new action from the state.

The notion that CD4 + T cells might be the pivotal mediators of corneal graft rejection arose from studies demonstrating the close correlation between delayed - type hypersensitivity (DTH), a classical CD4 + T cell - mediated immune process, and corneal graft rejection in rodents (10, 11).

Her works draw from the classical canon of Western art, pop art, and visual cultures to examine complex notions of femininity, beauty, race, sexuality and gender.

In a statement, Thomas's newest dealer described her rhinestone - embellished works thus: «Drawing from a long study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, Thomas» political and pop - culturally infused imagery explores constructed notions of identity and the self.

Although her work results from deep observations of the history of painting — from Velasquez, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Cezanne among others — her personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative as she invites viewers into a delicious domain of confident brush strokes with a new aesthetic.

«Sculpture Victorious» promises to vanquish blanket notions of «the Victorians» and their art (sentimental, chintzy, imperial, imperious)-- veering from the high - camp designs of William Reynolds - Stephens to the brawny classical majesty of Lord Leighton's An Athlete Wrestling with a Python.

Deeply informed by the history of sculpture — from mystical prehistoric sources up to the present moment — her ambiguous, figurative forms disrupt entrenched notions of the classical ideal.

In his work, Young Women and Young Men of Canada, Jones combines photographic portraiture with line drawings taken from classical antiquity to question notions of beauty.

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From a completely new perspective, the artist examines the very notion of what desire is by rethinking and reshaping primarily the traditional genre of classical portrayal.

Carlson critiques gender inequalities and the romantic notion of the (male) genius artist by creating a fictional narrative using liner notes from Classical music LPs and collaged snapshot photographs.

Classical notions of ethos as a component of the writer's character — or as the writer's character — emerge from a different historical and cultural moment and fail to account for the complexity of the modern self.