Sentences with phrase «material nature of man»

Not exact matches

One understanding of human nature common to the modern era sees man as standing both above and outside nature (after Descartes, as a sort disembodied rational being), and nature itself as raw material — sometimes more pliable, sometimes less — for furthering human ambition (an instrumentalist post — Francis Bacon view of nature as a reality not simply to be understood but to be «conquered» and used to satisfy human desires).

Those thinkers are absolutely mistaken, therefore, who imagine they can prove man's nature to be purely material simply by uncovering ever deeper and more numerous roots of his being in the earth.

There are differences, thirdly, as to the nature of the object — whether it is material reality, thought in the mind of God or man, pantheistic spiritual substance, absolute and eternal mystical Being, or simply something which we can not know in itself but upon which we project our ordered thought categories of space, time, and causation.

In Schumacher's view, goals of agriculture should be directed «to keep man in touch with living nature, of which he is and remains a highly vulnerable part; to humanize and ennoble man's wider habitat; and to bring forth the foodstuffs and other materials which are needed for a becoming life.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: «Man occupies a unique place in creation: (I) he is «in the image of God»; (II) in his own nature he unites the spiritual and material worlds» (91).

In either case, the arrival of man — as distinguished from merely his carcass — necessarily involved a creative act and a power outside the realm of material nature where scientific knowledge is sovereign.

God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.

«It is necessary that the Heir of the Ages come into his own through the womb of woman, so that the human nature of man may be the perfect means of the action and hallowing of God in Person upon «his own» (cf. Jn 1, 11) and upon the material order itself, through mankind.

Later neo-Confucianists such as Ch» eng Hao (1032 - 1085) and Ch» eng I (1033 - 1107) developed more straightforwardly cosmological concepts to interpret the original nature of man, namely «principle of nature» and «material force.»

However, there is one important difference and this is where we find that the sacramental principle does not just mirror man's nature nor the rest of material creation.

These man - made materials take their name from their similarity to water ice in terms of their magnetic nature.

Jane Campion's rapturously sensual meditation surmounts this challenge ingeniously by creating an alternative visual language for the verse of John Keats, conveying the man's moods, thoughts and influence through the subtlest accents of nature, material and weather.

Text descriptions or dialogue sometimes contain references to sexual material (e.g., «She... raped the men as cruelly as Bal had ravished her»; «Sex with attractive Nedes was considered casual recreation...»; «[T] here have been instances of intercourse between these «races,» generally in the nature of rape or magical seduction...»).

Dissecting Nature is an exhibition of artwork that uses man - made materials to emulate nature or natural materials to create artistic construcNature is an exhibition of artwork that uses man - made materials to emulate nature or natural materials to create artistic construcnature or natural materials to create artistic constructions.

Despite the fact that Böhm is not a dogmatist, his use of industrial materials as well as the pure nature of his compositions reflect an untainted believe in the modern, the contemporary and foremost in the man - made.

Muska's artwork uses his immediate surroundings, available materials and the relationship between man and nature as inspiration and mediums of his new work.

To 18 Nov: www.cortesigallery.com Herman de Vries (born 1931) was part of the zero movement in the early 60's, from which material minimalism he has progressively infused the natural, its relation to man, and — as flagged by the title here — the potential return to beauty through the man - made's reintegration with nature.

The central theme of Tony Cragg's work is his preoccupation with the material world - the reality of objects, which either come from nature, albeit a man - modified nature or the useful things we make to help us exist.

She employs the use of mass - produced man made industrial materials — namely Monofilament and Cable Ties — to create organic forms, playing on the way in which nature can be mimicked by Man, yet at the same time is static and lack the ability to evolve in the same way nature cman made industrial materials — namely Monofilament and Cable Ties — to create organic forms, playing on the way in which nature can be mimicked by Man, yet at the same time is static and lack the ability to evolve in the same way nature cMan, yet at the same time is static and lack the ability to evolve in the same way nature can.

It also signifies «a sense of accumulation of man's abilities to implement materials and processes as a stabilizing and balancing response to conditions given by nature.»

The geometric forms that contrast the ground materials create a balance between sculpture and painting and explore the juxtaposition of man and nature.

Instead, he rearranges materials from the surroundings to show the joint creative power of man and nature.

The artist forms a dialogue between the nature of her varying materials — juxtaposing and off - setting organic forms against the solidity of man - made materials and shapes.

Stephanie Quayle (UK) Born and brought up on the Isle of Man, Quayle's sculptures link man to nature through the organic material of clay itself as well as animal to human: «I'm interested in how much we align or distance ourselves from them — how they reflect, question and return our gaMan, Quayle's sculptures link man to nature through the organic material of clay itself as well as animal to human: «I'm interested in how much we align or distance ourselves from them — how they reflect, question and return our gaman to nature through the organic material of clay itself as well as animal to human: «I'm interested in how much we align or distance ourselves from them — how they reflect, question and return our gaze.

Christopher Ryan and Cecildá Jetha, authors of Sex at Dawn, hypothesize that primitive humans were by nature nonmonogamous, and that monogamy was instituted around the time of the agricultural revolution as a way for men to establish patrilineality and hand down material wealth to their offspring.