Sentences with phrase «modern ideas about»

Before more modern ideas about animal cruelty took hold, people would attend weekly bull baiting for entertainment.

Hugh Dancy plays Dr. Mortimer Grenville, an idealist whose modern ideas about medicine render him unemployable in conventional practices.

How have modern ideas about fitness and youth affected traditional notions of who you should date?

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED — Oct 18 — Speed dating has taken root in India, mixing traditional and modern ideas about love.

That proposal is consistent with modern ideas about the workings of memory, a process in which nitric oxide seems to play a crucial part, according to other independent evidence.

Modern ideas about safety standards are not the only things to get a knock from Segre.

Not only does it seem that modern industry is at odds with classical virtue, but the classical idea of a virtuous citizenry seems to fit uneasily with modern ideas about the equality of persons.

While doing this, the health worker should keep in mind modern ideas about dehydration and look for a bridge between the ideas.

I'm not aware of his ideas about vision, but I am sure he would seriously question modern ideas about church, which vision would fall under.

He also acknowledges debts to Augustine and especially to Luther, and although he rejects Christianized «Hellenic» conceptions of justice and the state, his program seems to owe much to ancient and modern ideas about civility and civic virtue.

Not exact matches

But not everyone is in love of the idea of a ritualized switching off, at least not if it's unconnected to deeper reflections about what's driving the seemingly frantic pace of modern life.

Some might scoff at the idea of using emojis and jokes about modern tech to communicate, but these are just small examples of Coach K's ability to communicate in a way that his players understand and appreciate.

However, Father Christmas and his other European variations are modern incarnations of old pagan ideas about spirits who traveled the sky in midwinter, Hutton said.»

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Finally, I admit that, even if I accept the Lawlerian idea that Locke partially corrects Aristotle, by stealing certain Christian insights about the limits of the polis (see chapter 7 of Modern and American Dignity especially), I still hold that Aristotle is better than Locke.

U2 didn't know it was such a hand - me down, and neither did I. Both they and I would have been insulted to have been told that there was something communist - like about the idea of modern greed / capitalism causing modern wars.

I had no idea how little I actually knew about modern paganism until I entered this conversation.

First, he believes that in the modern era, the Church Fathers» ideas about divine attributes, traditionally dear to Catholics and Protestants alike — such as divine perfection, simplicity, eternity, and immutability — have to be evaluated anew in light of a narrative reading of the Gospel.

In thinking about pure being, therefore, we are not thinking about existing objects or things, we are thinking about what, in Platonic language, are called forms, or ideas, or in modern terminology concepts» (TNMS 13).

As this example illustrates, explanation in modern physics is almost entirely in terms of mathematical structure and involves an enormously rich set of ideas about form.

At the beginning of modern thought (about 1600), Descartes said that there were two basic substances: extended substance (material things) and mental substance (minds and ideas).

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

Humanity Made for Christ When speaking to modern audiences, especially young adults, about what distinguishes us from the animals, it is not always a good idea to start with negative distinctions - pointing out, for example, that animals can not do such and such, but we can.

Having already addressed these first two issues, in the present chapter we shall focus on the questions raised by modern critics about the consonance of rational and scientific discourse with the idea of revelation.

Beyond that there were doubts about the leadership and capacity of the Scottish Nationalists and of the other Scottish political parties; and there was also a dislike of the idea of separating Scotland from the rest of the U.K.: As it was often put, «Why break up the most successful political union of nations in modern history?»

So much has changed in the world, so many older beliefs and ideas have been abandoned or if not abandoned then gravely doubted, so much of our modern way of living appears to make prayer unintelligible, that they are puzzled about the whole enterprise.

Whitehead's ideas about education are contained in Whitehead, Alfred North, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1963), and in the final chapter of his Science and the Modern World (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1956), Chapter XIII, «Requisites for Social Progress,» pp. 192 - 208.

This idea that women are emotional, men are wanting to follow Jesus (in a warrior masculine way - whatever that looks like) stuff can be okay at times - but drawing to strict lines about this stuff is what I find repellent in a lot of modern Christian circles.

Sixth century ideas in the 21st century has brought about more death, pain and destruction across the world than the ideas of any other one group in modern times.

And it has everything to do, I suggest, with four themes that arise from the modern expression of Ockhamite nominalism: the deterioration of the idea of freedom into willfulness, the detachment of freedom from moral truth, an obsession with «choice,» and the consequent inability to draw the most elementary moral conclusions about the imperative to resist evil.

Augustine's reflections may be more illuminative of the common subject than the later ideas of Thomas Aquinas; Luther may answer more questions of the modern student about his puzzling situation in guilt and anxiety before God than Schleiermacher; Bernard of Clairvaux may clarify the meaning of the love of God and neighbor more than a twentieth - century theologian.

I'd heard some great things about The Newlywed Cookbook: Fresh Ideas and Modern Recipes for Cooking With and for Each Other so I bought it for my cuz and her new hubby.

Here you find out everything about high - quality beverage raw materials and essences, innovative technologies and sparkling ideas for marketing and modern sales concepts within the whole process chain.

There are plenty of things about him we wont miss, like his insane ideas to improve the sport, or how out of touch he seemed to be with modern life, but there can be no doubting that he was a massive character and there won't be another person quite like him.

The idea of a romantic partner is faintly alluring even still, but the knowledge of what modern relationships are about, and what modern people seem to want out of life makes me just shrug and say:

After reading more of Charlotte Mason's ideas about art appreciation, I knew that I didn't wanted my children just to do preschool art activities, but also become familiar with the art and music of our modern culture, as well as that of the artists that have gone before us.

To millennials, both men and women, old ideas about gender stereotypes are necessarily giving way to the reality that mom going to work isn't some Mr. Mom hijinks — it's reality, and modern families and modern workplaces are gonna have to adjust.

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The world is not as divided as it used to be and modern warfare is less about the smuggling of weapons and more about the spread of ideas.

The idea of a nation and a state being the same thing («Nation - state») is fairly new in modern politics [1](it came about as one of the consequences / results of Peace of Westphalia, which ended the 30 - year - war in Europe, when the concept of «Westphalian sovereignty» was introduced).

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species, and many people are talking about modern interpretations of Charles Darwin's ideas.

Modern neuroscience has pushed Freud's ideas to the sidelines and has taught us something far more profound about dreaming.

Dr Bell and Dr Ramachers re-investigated ideas about the photoelectric effect dating back to Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein when they considered whether these ideas could be used for modern solar power generation — leading to the development of this new process.

By RAYMOND JEANLOZ Mountains move and «solid rock» is not solid: for modern geologists there is nothing particularly strange about these ideas.

It's why I think it's important to develop, but also to share, fascinating ideas about modern physics.

Focusing on the two hundred year history of artificial insemination, it investigates how popular and scientific ideas about gendered bodies, heredity, and risk shaped the transformation of sperm into a (frozen) commodity, were pivotal to separating the act of sex from reproduction, and laid the institutional foundations for the modern fertility industry.

This idea of streamlining your wardrobe and spending less time fussing over an outfit certainly resonates with the modern woman and extends beyond the look — it's about consumers becoming completely aware of the whole process, from design through production, through use, and through the potential to reuse.

EP: I have an idea for a book about the historical fruit of the United States — how they came to be in certain regions, how some fell out of use, and modern and historic recipes.