Sentences with phrase «nature in a fundamental way»

What frequently passes for modern science» with its heavy accretion of materialism and positivism» is simply wrong about nature in fundamental ways.

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However, beyond this level of conviction, life in a community also produces a primary perspective, a basic way of understanding the nature of things, a fundamental vision of reality.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

It was, more precisely, based on a thinking through — although, in a way, a distortion — of Locke's fundamental premises about human nature by Rousseau.

Whereas the Harvard group would respond to particular extreme cases of environmental problems, the WCC group would ask for a fundamental change in the way human beings look at nature.

Therefore, if nature is in any way affected by God at a fundamental level, its being influenced would not have to be imagined as a completely passive reception of divine causal force.

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.

These «theological» experiences of ours are bound to bring about some fundamental changes in the way we do Christian theology, understand the nature and task of the Christian church, and paractice our Christian faith in Asia.

As Manton and Mee stress, «least action» refers to a certain efficiency in how nature operates; the principle is in many ways more fundamental than some physical laws.

In some ways, the interest in the VLHC is a sign that particle physicists are returning to their roots, pushing to ever higher energies to find the fundamental building blocks of naturIn some ways, the interest in the VLHC is a sign that particle physicists are returning to their roots, pushing to ever higher energies to find the fundamental building blocks of naturin the VLHC is a sign that particle physicists are returning to their roots, pushing to ever higher energies to find the fundamental building blocks of nature.

They really alter consciousness in this fundamental way and therefore they are very powerful tools to understand the nature of consciousness,» says Robin Carhart - Harris of Imperial College London, who carried out the new study.

«We've come a long way in understanding the fundamental nature of the universe,» says Joseph Incandela, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the leader of one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson.

«This allows us to certify that the problem is not a feature of a particular setup or a consequence of the way in which an experiment was performed, but really points towards a fundamental feature of nature,» says Jean - Daniel Bancal of the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore.

There have been similar claims for an extensive plane of dwarf galaxies about our own Milky Way Galaxy, with some claiming that the existence of such strange structures points to a failing in our understanding of the fundamental nature of the Universe.

But perhaps the «nature» of spinach changes when you cook it in some more fundamental way that affects metabolism, for example.

Architecture of Life, the inaugural exhibition in BAMPFA's landmark new building, explores the ways that architecture — as concept, metaphor, and practice — illuminates various aspects of life experience: the nature of the self and psyche, the fundamental structures of reality, and the power of the imagination to reshape our world.

Longer term, the goal is to become part of a 75 - mile path from Vermont to Connecticut (and a 38 - mile circumnavigation of Mount Greylock, Massachusetts» highest peak), with MASS MoCA acting as one of the key destination attractions on this statewide path — connecting art and nature lovers in a way that conjoins the two fundamental strengths of the Berkshire tourism economy.

Seen as a whole, his practice raises fundamental and evergreen questions about the value of images and art, the nature and possibilities of painting and film, the intertwined relation of our subjectivity to cultural identity, and the ways we address what we experience in life in parallel to the mediated world of images.

At its most fundamental, painting is about the nature of looking, and the power of the reflection has always mystified us as the secondary version of reality — in much the same way as painting itself.

He has developed a critical engagement with his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and cosmos.

Since, traditionally, paintings are «frozen» with respect to time while real time never stops, this dynamic addresses the nature of realism in a more fundamental way.

The world has lost one of its leading minds — an ecologist who helped us understand how nature works in the most fundamental ways.

People need to reconnect with nature (and reality) in a fundamental way before technological and economic solutions will be implemented.

The fundamental nature of science is that it is continually tested and revised in small and large ways.

The great simplicity of negative water vapour feedback on warming is that it is «symmetrical,» which is always a good sign that you might be on to a fundamental rule in nature, because natural systems usually have an elegant beauty that cut both ways.

The paradox was that nuclear energy, in several fundamental ways, significantly reduces humankind's demands on nature.

Mari Margil of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund discusses why we need a fundamental change in the way we use law to protect nature.

My approach follows a time - honored process that will help you move beyond the trappings of the ego identity and into an ease of living in your true nature... experiencing a fundamental shift in your way of being where you no longer function out of unconscious patterns.

Apparently both people in the relationship don't always realize that the nature of the relationship was changed in a fundamental way once the relationship became physical, which is why I think that so many people are willing to declare these arrangements a success.