Sentences with phrase «irreducible human»

«Alice Neel: Late Portraits & Still Lifes,» at David Zwirner Gallery, is a rare and extraordinary grouping of 16 perfect, irreducible human beings, four bouquets of flowers, a couple of dying plants on a windowsill beside a fire escape and a wonky white chaise longue, in a total of 18 paintings dating from 1964 to 1983, the year before the artist's death.

Bourgeois life is located in precisely the «boundary situation» where the irreducible human duality can not be denied.

Not exact matches

First, Grisez - Finnis describe some basic human goods, the irreducible categories of things for which it is rational to strive.

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By Trapani's account, Maritain was able to show how art and poetry bring together two infinities: the irreducible complexity of human personality («the Self») with the superabundant mystery of being («the Things»).

Today I think that the religious dimension of human life is one of the irreducible roots of language, and I suspect that quite a few of our words developed from religious origins.

History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.

He pointed out how, because of the dominant reductionist view of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual as «an object to be investigated, measured and experimented upon» rather than as an «irreducible subject».

The quarrel, if that's what it is, between the primacy of human need and the independent moral standing of nature seems to me ultimately irreducible, and we shall have to lean one way or the other.

To be sure, classical realism is lost to us, a development due in part to increased awareness of the extent to which the human mind and cultural forms are the irreducible prisms for any apprehension of reality.

Science itself is full of proof of God... irreducible complexity, the Anthropic Principle... even the scientist behind the human genome project CONVERTED TO Christianity after working on the project.

This will make clearer in retrospect what was said earlier (section I, b) regarding the irreducible character of the various component factors in the one human being.

There is an irreducible conflict, a radical opposition, between the creative operation of each of these qualities, corresponding each time to a thetic16 judgment, and the ambition that human consciousness can have of verifying them for itself, by itself.

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

This unwillingness is based primarily upon what he considers to be an undeniable and irreducible fact of human self - intuition: when one is directly aware of himself in a specific moment, he is aware of «himself» as a single unit of action and not of any system of cells.

In this perspective, every human being has an irreducible value and dignity — but also, because we have one Environment who fulfils all our knowing and loving and all our desire for love and truth, we are more deeply connected to each other than we sometimes dare to imagine.

However much Stanglin and McCall want to protest that for Arminius it is grace that is necessary for human faith, he nonetheless left an irreducible space for human acts or beliefs that resist God's grace.

There is a metaphysically irreducible contrast in human experience if it is always a compromise between pure order and chaos, between normativeness and the unmeasured, between unifying structure and the plurality of things to be unified.

What it does offer, she tells us, is «something that is perhaps of even greater value... a framework for... a more realistic recognition of the irreducible diversity of human moral beliefs and practices, together with resources for a more nuanced assessment of these diverse mores.»

Rock can get religion only if it is already in some sense religious — which it is, due to its commitment to the irreducible mystery of the human voice.

At its irreducible minimum, Catholicism requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

He imagined that by inventing an alphabet of human thought — a system of characters for irreducible concepts — and then combining these in a calculus of reasoning, mathematicians would be able to solve all scientific and moral matters.

The film leaves us with the hope inherent to openness; that exposure to the irreducible complexity of human experience will win out over the isolation and black - and - white thinking that fosters belief in an evil «other».

«If you think, why did God create the world, how does he love the world, what in the world, if you imagine him through the lens of Christ, what in the world breaks his heart, it seems to me it's the irreducible beauty and pathos of human beings and their capacity for love and their capacity for loyalty and all the rest that is simply beautiful, even though in many forms it is in error, it is possibly destructive, and so on....

We are working with science fiction author Ted Chiang, who will write a subtitled script in the spirit of a fable that ponders the irreducible gaps between living, nonliving, human, animal, technological, and cosmic actors.

This analytical report addresses the social dimensions of climate change from a sustainable, equitable development perspective, understood as «an irreducible holistic concept where economic, social and environmental issues are interdependent dimensions that must be approached within a unifi ed framework», and where the overarching outcome is to fully promote human welfare and equal access to life - sustaining resources.

If it can be shown that if we take no mitigating action there is a small but irreducible risk of the collapse and terminal decline of all humanity then that is enough to trigger mitigation, if there is no existential threat, but the future is going to be challenging, then that is human normalcy.

It is characterized by multiple intersecting and uncertain future hazards to natural and human systems, that are expected to unfold over a very large range of spatial and temporal scales, and whose probabilities may be difficult, or in some cases impossible, to quantify precisely (because of intrinsic and / or irreducible uncertainties about the future).

There is some irreducible quantity of «junk» to be found in every field of human endeavor, blawging very much included.