Sentences with phrase «in modern conceptions»

He has written about his own research and interviewed others on the role that obscurity plays in our modern conceptions of privacy.

DNA plays a central role in modern conceptions of identity, but as our understanding of genetic science improves, so too does our understanding of what makes us who we are.

Thus in the modern conception, the physical existent as «matter» was in itself completely devoid of activity or agency — it was strictly «inert,» as Kepler was the first to characterize it; it was «movable» but could not move itself, as Newton insisted.

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In the name of «a flexible approach tailored to the modern conception of federalism, which allows for some overlapping and favours a spirit of co?operation» (at para 93) and an approach that is consistent with the presumption of validity, Justice Gascon clearly favoured a more deferential and «delicate» approach to the assessment of pith and substance than did the majority.

Catholic theologians in modern times have generally said that ensoulment happens at conception.

None of these is necessarily «supernatural» insofar as several conceptions are quite compatible with modern findings in physics and biology.

He notes that «the modern conception of history is utopian only in its assumption that modern history has no foreseeable conclusion.

Throughout Catholic thought over the past hundred and fifty years, there have run two entirely distinct conceptions of modernity and two quite different uses of Thomism — a combination of four threads weaving in and out of the Catholic Church's response to the strangeness of modern times.»

This conception was worked out in the first three centuries of the Christian era, given more precise shape in the Middle Ages, and has been more or less accommodated to the newer knowledge of modern times in recent years.

The modern conception differs fundamentally from that of Jesus, because the former assumes the intrinsic worth of humanity, at least of the highest and noblest in it.

Jesus expresses no conception of a human ideal, no thought of a development of human capacities, no idea of something valuable in man as such, no conception of the spirit in the modern sense.

Instead I am attempting to describe the dynamic meaning which is implied in the conception of «original sin» (a meaning which has been reaffirmed by the findings of modern depth psychology), the only sense in which the conception is intelligible.

But a major tradition in modern thought has agreed that the moral problem must be solved independently of any inclusive telos or conception of the inclusive good.

In the early modern period, political thinkers formulated a new conception of natural law, whose distinctive character has defined a distinctively modern tradition of thought about natural or human rights.

The categorical imperative to «treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.

Leclerc writes: «The Aristotelian doctrine is that the physical existent, by virtue of its inherent activity, is necessarily involved in internal change, while... the denial of internal change in matter is the one feature of the modern conception of matter which has persisted until this century» (NPE 257f.).

The virtue of the process understanding of God is that it avoids denying altogether the modern conception of personhood while proceeding to alter and shape it in more humane ways.

The problem with this conception of gross destructiveness as inherent in modern warfare, though, is that it is a contingent judgment being made to do service as a permanent truth.

The place of the justified resort to force within this overall conception was, for medieval and early modern thinkers alike, encapsulated in a verse from the Apostle Paul, Romans 13:4: «For [the ruler] is God's minister to you for good.

Earlier I identified, in order to fault it, the conception that all modern war is inherently indiscriminate and disproportionate in its destruction, so that modern war as such must be opposed.

Mark, like other ancient writers generally, has no interest in «personality,» which is a very modern conception.

There is no conception of God as concrete in Science and the Modern World.

In short, there are both crucial continuities and important disjunctions between the Founders» and our modern conceptions of reason, and hence between what founding and current constitutionalists mean when they express a commitment to a politics governed by it.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

The typical conception of time in modern physics allows for no distinction between past, present, and future, thus denying the significance of time.

Aristotle provided MacIntyre with an account of why our actions require a conception of an end as well as the social and political conditions necessary to sustain a life formed by the virtues constitutive of that end that is simply lacking in modern moral practice and theory.

There is no belief in the inner superiority of spirit over nature, no conception of struggle between spirit and nature, nor of the inner growth which man can win in the battle with nature; there is lacking also the specifically modern pessimistic estimate of the world such as has received poetic expression from Strindberg or Spitteler.

As to method, the older view was rooted in the traditional ecclesiastical theory of Mark's derivation from Matthew — which modern Synoptic study completely reverses — and it took for granted a conception of «Paulinism» which made the Apostle to the Gentiles responsible for everything in primitive Christianity which could not be squared with a crass, reactionary Christian Judaism; it completely ignored the development of a Gentile type — or types — of Christianity apart from and even prior to the work of Paul.

He claimed that whereas New Testament writers assumed divine intervention in history, such a belief was unintelligible to modern man and that the entire conception of a supernatural order which invades and perforates this one must be abandoned.

When theologians affirm that every quest for a genuine and lasting polis is identical with the development of «personhood» in community they should be aware that — at least from a Marxist or revolutionary political point of view — they are serving as ideological spokesmen for a modern Western or bourgeois conception of politics and society.

For not only myth has been repressed in the framing of modern conceptions of rationality but also — and equally — imagination, a mysterious faculty that is intimately connected with, and by no means the enemy of, good reasoning.

Modern Christianity says that Jesus is the only True Son of God, I Totally Disagree with this Concept, thru out History long before Christ was Born in different cultures there have been «Crusified Saviors» and alot of them had the same history as Christ, Born of holy Conception, confronted the «Devil», «Born December 25th suppossely, and Crucified.

(If a considerable number of Psalms go back to the prophetic period or earlier, as some modern critics hold (in opposition to the view which prevailed thirty years ago), then there is additional support for the view that there was no such radical change from collective to individual conceptions at the Exile as has often been asserted.

The abstract noun «conception» means the act of conceiving and / or the fact of conceiving, i.e., of taking hold of and holding something in the mind, and thus frequently also connotes «what» is so held — in this being synonymous with «concept,» or «thought,» or «idea» in its modern usage.

Here is a question to ponder: If, as Professor Amar insists, that clause incorporated the Bill of Rights and gave us the modern conception of individual liberty, does he wish to suggest that it would also justify the result in Roe v. Wade?

Bleich pays no heed at all to the advocates of a modern conception of the halakhah; their point of view never once surfaces in his essays.

The modern worldview and its conception of the future has dead - ended in wars, genocide, the exploitation of Third World countries, increasing pollution, the disappearance of resources and the specter of omnicide.

One way to contrast archaic and modern society, or rather the modern West and all traditional societies, archaic or historic, is to point out, as Louis Dumont following Alexis de Tocqueville has been doing in recent years, that traditional societies are characterized by hierarchy whereas modern societies are characterized by equality — at least in ideal.6 This contrast is rooted not just in political ideology but in fundamental conceptions of the nature of reality.

A Developed Understanding of Mercy The conception of the new rite is therefore to be seen in the context of our modern need for mercy.

Even diving into a fraction of this list will have you feeling empowered and prepared for conception, pregnancy, postpartum and parenting... It includes resources on improving and even ensuring ensuring healthier pregnancy and birth outcomes than the status quo, and preventing and healing from birth trauma so prevalent in the modern world!

This is a crisply written and well researched book that tells us to reimagine marriage in ways that fit our modern conceptions about love, monogamy, security and child rearing.

Modern moderate republicans are not as elitist as Madison in their conception of democracy, but I think that tendency to elitism has not been entirely erased from the republican revival.

He argues for our modern conception of the Electoral College, though in the case of a tie, the power would be given to the House of Representatives to vote on the election of the president.

Previously rendered only in artists» conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet.

And 30 years ago, when the field of evolutionary psychology was gaining steam, some facile parallels between ancient and modern behaviors lodged themselves in the popular conceptions of human evolution.

Ali Luke in The Diet Blog, writes, «Historians trace the origins of a modern conception of dieting to two 19th century figures: Rev. Sylvester Graham (1795 - 1851), a New Jersey preacher, and William Banting (1797 — 1878), a London undertaker.»

Shot on 35 mm and in technicolor, a pastiche of «60s Russ - Meyer-esque B horror movies, it challenges modern conceptions of gender roles.

Though American moviegoers didn't take to this film and many might find it falls short of complete satisfaction, there is no doubt plenty about Howl's worth admiring, whether you are well - versed in Miyazaki or simply open to something unusual as far as modern conceptions of animation go.

As for the CGI animals, Peyton gives them plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc, although at least one or two of those sequences feels better in conception than execution: though the large - scale destruction is all masterfully rendered — and it must be noted, brutally violent for a PG - 13 movie — he like many other modern filmmakers gets too close to the action, mistaking incomprehensibility for claustrophobia, and seems either unaware of or uninterested in even the basic physics of gravity, falling objects, and so on.

Teachers in modern classrooms need to consider using technology to support student literacy development, due in large part to new conceptions of literacy brought about by the emergence of Web 2.0 models, including participatory information sharing, collaborative processes, and virtual communities.