Sentences with phrase «idea of nature»

A graduating doctor or nurse should have a basic idea of the nature of various religions and their general requirements, preferences and practices.

There may be in man an intuition about this desire without having any clear idea of its nature.

The very idea of a nature means that something is integrated into an environment, that through the laws of this environment it is subject, i.e., can not do whatever it likes.

The whole idea of nature versus art had been debated forever by then, and classical theorists had declared that art itself is nature.

Mattias Snygg, co-founder and artist at Villa Gorilla, says the approach to building the island was inspired by Japanese animations, particularly the work of Studio Ghibli: «[Hayao] Miyazaki's work centres on the core idea of nature as a living, breathing thing.

Pan has been working with the Tang Museum's collection and is exploring ideas of the nature of fact and fiction, the real and the surreal, through photography, sculpture and painting.

Her artistic practice surrounds ideas of nature vs. nurture, usually one taking precedent on a 2 - dimensional surfaces overall.

As in all her work, the installation draws from many references, ranging from pop culture ideas of nature and femininity to arcane literary traditions.

In By Leafy Ways, artist Ivor Abrahams invites viewers into the strange world of the English suburban garden, in which ideas of nature and artifice are subtly opposed.

Wilson's hybrids also suggest how, for many, the very idea of nature is always a human construction.

Nami Yamamoto is a Japanese artist, working primarily in Installation and drawing concerning ideas of nature and the man made environment.

His work interrogates the implications of early modernist ideas of nature, in particular a photograph of four angular «tree» sculptures made by the artists Joel and Jan Martel in 1925.

The Call of the Wild and Self Disclosures are about ideas of nature and masculinity.

Raimo Saarinen is a Helsinki based sculptor whose artistic practice focuses on the various ideas of nature and people's relationship with plants and ecosystems in the western post-industrial cultures.

This immersive artwork takes the viewer on a journey through a series of distinct visual chapters, exploring ideas of nature, folklore, magic and spirituality.

«I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature.»

As in all her work, the installation draws from many references, here ranging from pop culture ideas of nature and femininity to arcane literary traditions.

While not wanting to over-read his work in a different direction, I would say there would seem to be some doubt as to how theological Barzun's idea of nature was.

by saying, «We go from the idea of nature to the idea of history.»

Already in The Idea of Nature, he made a distinction between Whitehead's realism and that of the analytic philosophy.23 In An Autobiography, he radicalizes that distinction, interpreting Whitehead's realism as contradictory to the realistic epistemology of the neo - positivists.24 Hence, he concludes that Whitehead's cosmology is in fact constructed on an anti-realistic principle (EM 176).

R. G. Collingwood, in his well - known book, The Idea of Nature, develops the thesis that the idea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.»

The idea of nature, then, is always already overlaid with our meanings and can not be understood apart from them.

I Both in colloquial and in methodic discourse the idea of nature has functioned in a large number of ways, and the variety of these ways makes it seem impossible to find significant relatedness among them.

The idea of nature or of conformity to law is excluded in the conception of prayer as in that of miracle.

The idea of the nature means that we are interrelated, and inter-defined, in all that we do and are.

Ethics can be modified since the idea of nature changes, so human sexuality can be thought of more in terms of interpersonal relationships (p149).

The idea of being a little playful with the idea of nature, and having a raspberry flavor that's blue for some reason.

So, biologists are realizing that idea of nature versus nurture is missing the importance of noise.

Before the recent excavations of houses, however, scholars had no idea of the nature of domestic rituals.

Use images and ideas of nature, and also nature's calming colors (green and blue) as a focus for visualization and meditation.