Sentences with phrase «human cultural concepts»

When dog owners bring human cultural concepts of fairness into their relationship with their dog, things get messed up.

Not exact matches

The concept of cultural relativism is particularly helpful in connection with the understanding of values as one of the expressions of human spirituality.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

The modern sciences of genetics and ecology have clearly provided empirical grounds for rejecting these traditional race concepts and for recognizing the fundamental role of education in the creation of human personality — especially in respect to qualities that are so manifestly reflections of cultural patterns.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

So morality (I hate using that word because the concept is really human decency) is actually based in the individual, and imperfectly codified in the cultural; it is not distant or God - based.

A concept like of equality should therefore be extended to all those (socio - economic and cultural) spheres that are essential to human emancipation and self - development.

However, there are cultural and religious barriers that prevent the establishment of human milk banks in the Muslim countries due to the concept of milk kinship.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Such a particular concept is in fact evidence of Balinese creative genius and unique cultural tradition as a result of a long human interaction, especially between the Balinese and Indian.

It is still a cultural discussion seen in his past bodies of work («Cold, Hard, and Wet» and «Beijing Series») but is no longer restricted to the human forms to conduct the conversation of the concepts that drive his work.

Putting oneself in the line of fire of the harpoon to defend the right to life of another species is, I believe, one of the first new cultural concepts to appear in human culture, which for more than 2000 years has been predicated on the belief that all animals were created for the benefit of and use by humans.

This is especially true with research about cetaceans, because the discoveries of marine mammal scientists over the last 50 years have made it clear that whales and dolphins share traits once believed to be unique to humans: self - awareness, abstract thought, the ability to solve problems by planning ahead, understanding such linguistically sophisticated concepts as syntax, and the formation of cultural communities.

As the concept of equality as guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (s. 15) and in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (s. 10) has evolved over the last two decades, our work in protecting and promoting racial equality has also adapted to new legal, social and cultural realities.

In this context human needs extends to include concepts of distributive justice, identity and cultural security.

Yet no one wants to properly fund Repatriation of ancestral human remains or even properly support the concept of repatriation of cultural property.