Sentences with phrase «natural course of history»

In addition, the existence of marginalized communities in Western democratic societies, which stand as the pinnacle of the liberal democracy model, as well as some contested international policies of some democracies in recent history, have questioned the mythology of the liberal order in its current form as an aspiration of all peoples and the natural course of history.

Not exact matches

The ruling class of natural scientists, like so many tyrannies in the course of history, regarded a refusal to publish the laws by which it ruled as an indispensable instrument of its own tyranny (italics mine).

Is not the course of natural events entirely different from the drama of human history?

In the beginnings of history it was the forces of nature which were first so reflected and which in the course of further evolution underwent the most manifold and varied personifications among the various peoples... But it is not long before, side by side with the forces of nature, social forces begin to be active — forces which confront man as equally alien and at first equally inexplicable, dominating him with the same apparent natural necessity as the forces of nature themselves.

If you search the Coursera website on «evolution», you will see that «Evolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both start in June.

This «exception» seems to be the only one that has to be dealt with, if we leave out of account the fact that a thorough - going Vitalism, which after all is a doctrine quite commonly supported in Christian philosophy, would have to require a predicamental activity of God within the natural world and its history for the origin of life, too, and perhaps for certain definite categories of living things, unless of course such Vitalism were to hold that there has been «life» in the physical world from the beginning or that a special ratio seminalis of its own for life could have been created into the material world from the beginning.

The Church is no more the kingdom of God than natural science is nature or written history the course of human events.

More and more complex states of affairs arise in the course of natural history through an open - ended process.

Over the course of the Earth's four billion year history, billions of other species have evolved into existence and been rendered extinct by compet - itors or natural disasters, well before the current cast of characters appeared.

The social sciences also offer an interesting variety of subjects, such as «Natural Man and Ideal Man in Western Thought» and «Freedom and Authority in the Modern World» in the elementary courses, and «History of Far Eastern Civilization,» «Introduction to the Civilization of India,» and «Introduction to the Civilization of the Middle East» in the secondary group.

The Upper West side is home to fantastic restaurants, the Museum of Natural History, and of course, Central Park.

Zoo, Children's Museum, Aquarium, Natural History Museum (dinosaur bones are sooooo cooooooool)... it's unlikely we'll receive more memberships than we'd use over the course of a year;) Great list, Kate!

«Of course you're excited when you find something well preserved from the Cretaceous [period 145 million to 65 million years ago],» says John Wible, curator of mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and senior author of a new report that concludes placental mammals originated around 65 million years ago, between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods when dinosaurs disappeareOf course you're excited when you find something well preserved from the Cretaceous [period 145 million to 65 million years ago],» says John Wible, curator of mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and senior author of a new report that concludes placental mammals originated around 65 million years ago, between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods when dinosaurs disappeareof mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and senior author of a new report that concludes placental mammals originated around 65 million years ago, between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods when dinosaurs disappeareof Natural History in Pittsburgh and senior author of a new report that concludes placental mammals originated around 65 million years ago, between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods when dinosaurs disappeareof a new report that concludes placental mammals originated around 65 million years ago, between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods when dinosaurs disappeared.

And then David timidly lifted up his hand and said, you know, if you have this line of reasoning, I can't see any natural time to begin our history course more recently than the Big Bang.

This has changed the natural history and course of these diseases for select patients.

October 2011 will go down in history as a month marked with major international natural disasters, the end of the Steve Jobs era, and of course the Occupy Everything events across the globe.

Leah Golubchick is the manager of middle and high school courses and institutes at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), where she oversees programs that explore the natural world with NYC teens and middle schNatural History (AMNH), where she oversees programs that explore the natural world with NYC teens and middle schnatural world with NYC teens and middle schoolers.

Rockman et al collaborated with the American Museum of Natural History to evaluate onsite and online course offerings as part of the «Our Earth's Future» series of educational programming about climate change.

Of course I will go... as I feel there never was, and is not likely soon again to be, such an opportunity for promoting the cause of science generally, and that of natural history in particular.&raquOf course I will go... as I feel there never was, and is not likely soon again to be, such an opportunity for promoting the cause of science generally, and that of natural history in particular.&raquof science generally, and that of natural history in particular.&raquof natural history in particular.»

On this unique itinerary, passengers will follow in the footsteps of the legendary explorers Lewis and Clark, while discovering the natural wonder, native lore, pristine wilderness, and rich history along this epic course.

And it goes almost without saying of course, that the justly famous Natural History Museum in London is always a smash hit with children and parents alike.

You'll be struck by the magnificent views over the golf course and the Sintra Mountains and in a few minutes you can be in the Sintra - Cascais Natural Park enjoying the history and magic of the castles, palaces and gardens, or in stylish Cascais, on a beautiful beach or at one of the many fantastic golf courses nearby.

The city can be traced back to at least 138 BC, so you can imagine that there's a wealth of history and culture — but of course not just that, it's a sea side port city, with a lovely natural park within easy reach, plus it makes for an interesting corporate entertainment location — as well as being ideal for all other types of tourism.

Rich with aboriginal history, eucalyptus forests, natural swimming holes, white sand, dingos and of course — highways allowing you to drive across the island by 4WD!

It offers courses in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, video, and animation, as well as photography, film history and theory, studies of the built and natural environment, and contemporary art.

His subject matter was not chosen as particularly suitable for formal experiments in abstraction: in his late works «he continued to explore visual perception, natural phenomena, modern life, the course of history and the social and ethical contexts that determine the endeavours of mankind».

VES also offers lecture courses and seminars in film history and theory, studies of the built and natural environment, design and urbanism, and contemporary arts.

Inspired by an observation by Michael Faraday (in a course of six lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle) in David Deutsch's book The Fabric of Reality that «there is no more open door by which you can enter into a study of natural philosophy than [by] considering the physical phenomena of a candle», Parreno's goal for the exhibition was to use its methods of display and artworks to explore the idea of light as an entity — one which alters what we see, and camouflages what we can not.

Robert Claiborne realized that he was getting different and conflicting time sequences between anthropology and glaciology courses when studying the natural influences on the pattern and sequence of human history.

The point is that we all trespass on the feelings of others; those feelings are critical to our connection with one another; our connection with one another is fundamental to our individual well - being and our survival as a species; the urge toward reconciliation is therefore natural, as are our desire to be forgiven, our spontaneous expressions of remorse, our attempt to explain and normalize our bad behavior (we are all fallible and we have all suffered harm) and our fellows» willingness to forgive, particularly when we bare ourselves and our histories to one another in the course of our effort to re-establish what joins us and to move beyond that which divides us.