Sentences with phrase «from epochal»

Leaning on its racing heritage, McLaren pairs the official film with a monologue from epochal racing legend Ayrton Senna, itself a sentiment that resonated throughout the development of the new 720S according to McLaren.

I am in essential agreement with professor Sipfle on this point, but prefer to say that Bergson has a quasi-epochal theory of the duration of matter, to distinguish it from the epochal theory of Process and Reality with its absolutely distinct units of becoming.

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The epochal nature of becoming displaces time from within an epoch to the succession of epochal states.

Interestingly, he used the terms «epochal occasion,» «event» and «droplets of existence,» but never «actual entity» or «eternal object,» suggesting that he still may have been working largely from Religion in the Making.

I shall argue that Whitehead did in fact badly misinterpret Aristotle's concept of substance, as Eslick claimed, and I shall suggest that, far from amounting to an inconsequential error in historical exegesis, this misconception was a strong influence in turning Whitehead's metaphysics in the direction of an epochal theory of becoming.

This will obviously depend on our conception of time, and it is clear that the intelligibility of Whiteheadian concresence hangs on the intelligibility of an atomic or «epochal» conception of time, one that is very different from our usual way of thinking of these matters.

In any case, at least the fallacy of simple location, and in part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasion).

According to the epochal theory, time is not some absolute container within which actual entities become; rather, time is an abstraction from the succession of actual entities.

Especially at Vatican I and in the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878 — 1903), the Catholic Church embraced this epochal change, and began to work out in earnest a new, genuinely post-Constantinian teaching on the relation of Church, state, and civil society, a teaching above all concerned to secure the freedom and independence of the Church from the modern state.

But it makes sense for Whitehead to shift from a theory of epochal time to one of epochal becoming in order to formulate a rule by which his earlier theory might be excluded.

For instance, defenders of the micrological view would presumably be ready to acknowledge the similarities between Bradley's nontemporally durational finite centers and Whitehead's epochal actual entities.11 The crucial difference would of course be that the latter are freed from the paradoxical entanglements of Bradley's nonrelational whole of feeling.

From the northern leaders» handling of the Igbo quit threat, they would appear living in eternal regret of that epochal bestiality.

It is this blanket criticism, with scant institutional memory, a wilful disregard of the shambles the Jonathan government left behind — even after a year — that passes Nigerians as unfeeling; and not able to appreciate the epochal chaos that Buhari and his government are battling with; from which they hope to rebuild the commonwealth.

For him, he continued, the trail of research that led to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — the epochal advance that earned him the prize — began with his amazement at a photograph of a Drosophila (fruit fly) with a leg emerging from its eye.

He reprises themes and characters from the previous films that swell in the epochal siege of Hogwarts and ends his film with an almost wordless coda that will wring tears even from Harry haters.

(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.

It's a Big Idea, this epochal transition from Information Age to Conceptual Age, and the analysis of it could lead into demographic, financial, and geopolitical fields.

As the East Coast attempts to clean up and dry off from a storm that could have been much worse (but was still pretty bad in spots) we wake up to a fairly epochal week in the history of comics.

The later launch will give Bungie a chance to polish the game, but as Forbes rightly points out, will also allow it to avoid competition from Respawn Entertainment's potentially - epochal Titanfall, which arrives in March.

Whitney Museum, New York One of the longest careers in American art has produced everything from tasteful nonagons to bombastically lurid steel sculptures — but collected into this epochal show, it all starts to make sense

To the end of my days I will curse myself for missing this epochal exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, which offered a true global history of art from 1945 to 1965.

The critic and founding editor - in - chief of Artnet magazine for 16 years, he has chronicled the «radical masquerade» of the avant - garde, heralding new talent, skewering the deserving, and identifying epochal shifts in the art scene, from his pronouncement that «there are no art movements, only market movements» to his lament about the rise of «zombie formalism» in contemporary painting today.

Influences converged, passion and intellect were engaged, and seminal moments occurred to help shape the process: in 1962 when Irving Blum (who had taken over Kienholtz's position at the gallery) gave Andy Warhol his first solo gallery exhibition ever at Ferus (the Campbell's Soup Can Paintings); in 1963, when Hopps moved to the Pasadena Art Museum and presented the first retrospective of Marcel Duchamp in the US; in 1966 with Ed Kienholtz's epochal retrospective at the LA County Museum; and in the decade from the late fifties to the late sixties when Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, and Ed Ruscha among a handful of others were on center stage.

Barroca draws from a wide - range of historical and documentary material — photographs, videos, and sound recordings — produced at the time of major epochal events.

An epochal struggle for dominance on the Venetian scene was thus taking shape when, in the autumn of 1510, Giorgione suddenly died — of the plague, Vasari says, contracted from his mistress.

There is a clear epochal shift from the perspective of planning urban development and the integrated model of creative city and how it impacts on the lives and working conditions of city dwellers.

Featuring images from the 1973 fashion show «The Battle of Versailles,» the exhibition showcases Cunningham's unique perspective on this epochal event in fashion history.

In these truly epochal works, Sherman posed herself repeatedly as characters from B movies.

«Such an epochal change is conceivable over a 30 - to 50 - year timeframe consistent with the timelines for achieving a low - carbon economy,» Nathwani argued in a 2014 analysis that was featured in a report from the Canadian Academy of Engineering.