The museum, now presenting an exhibition of Fritz Scholder's art, emphasizes aesthetics,
not anthropology, in its collection.
But isn't an artist's responsibility art and
not anthropology?
Not exact matches
She found herself post-college, with a degree (in
anthropology) she couldn't really use and didn't really want to use.
When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital
anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.
Letting two domains of knowledge that are usually alien to each other mix and mingle is a sure fire way to get your brain humming, so the idea of applying the thinking of
anthropology to the world of start - ups isn't as strange as it appears at first blush.
Lauren decided that with her
anthropology background and her love of experiential learning, a bicycle tour wouldn't have to only involve riding from place to place with a lunch strapped to your back.
Kirk, also a lecturer in cultural
anthropology, argued that the current policies in place at the University are
not enough.
The joke, due to the incompetence of the professors teaching the material, has at least to do with the fact that they will
not learn Spanish or
anthropology in their classes.
This thesis is
not novel; Karl Barth also emphasized Kant's reduction of theology to
anthropology.
His being Catholic as a writer has to do «
not so much with explicit faith or transmitting an explicit faith in my writings as it has to do with what I would call an
anthropology.»
The origin stories teach theology,
not cosmology, geology or
anthropology.
It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted
not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan
anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.
Can any argument from genetics and biochemistry if
not from
anthropology be constructed for monogenism?
Furthermore, Christian
anthropology does
not support the abstraction of one aspect of our being from the whole.
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faithby timothy larsen oxford, 272 pages, $ 45 The discipline of
anthropology is often considered post-religious if
not anti-religious.
He is
not just a figure of first - century Palestine who shows perhaps the perfect way to live, or who fully realises human
anthropology, or a man potently orientated to God.
But in terms of economy, sociology,
anthropology of knowledge, of science and of technology, we do
not have a different discourse from the dominant powers.
The fact that Whitehead emphasized what is common to all actual occasions, human and
not, was a major reason for skepticism about his contribution to
anthropology.
One could almost say that the
anthropology of process theologians was that of Niebuhr, but
not quite, because there were others who found their
anthropology in Heidegger or in Sartre.
But Berger's propensity to expound theology solely on an empirical, inductive basis — his desire, that is, to make
anthropology not only the starting point but the continuing locus of his theology — actually results in a diminished play experience as well as a truncated Christianity.
They do
not know, or they refuse to know, that the idea of an inferior or superior race has been refuted by the best evidence of the science of
anthropology.
In redefining marriage and the family, the state
not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and
not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human)
anthropology and philosophy of nature.
One may study a great deal of psychology, sociology, biology, and
anthropology, and still
not probe the depths of the complex creature that man is.
We may
not agree with Feuerbach when he says that theology is
anthropology; but we have to admit that there is certainly much
anthropology in theology.
Not only do my own private experiences of the bible's truth claims give me good reason to believe it's assessment, but the success and consistency of biblical anthropology in other quarters (not least literature and philosophy) means that I have absolutely no reason to be asham
Not only do my own private experiences of the bible's truth claims give me good reason to believe it's assessment, but the success and consistency of biblical
anthropology in other quarters (
not least literature and philosophy) means that I have absolutely no reason to be asham
not least literature and philosophy) means that I have absolutely no reason to be ashamed.
If the weakness of traditional theologies has been God - talk, may It
not be that the shortcoming of much theology today is that Feuerbach's observation is being fulfilled — that theology is becoming only
anthropology?
He contended in Fides et Ratio that
anthropology is the nexus of the two Thomisms: «Metaphysics should
not be seen as an alternative to
anthropology, since it is metaphysics which makes it possible to ground the concept of personal dignity in virtue of their spiritual nature.
From the perspective of Lifton's psychiatric
anthropology, man can
not live — in either war or peace — without meaningful sacrifices.
Existentialist (or phenomenological)
anthropology does contribute something metaphysical, although it is
not strictly metaphysical.
Further, if Heidegger's reputation for attention to the «big» issues of philosophical
anthropology means anything at all, it would also seem to mean that Heidegger's «philosophy of being» can
not be distinguished from considerations about how one ought to behave — and a fortiori how Heidegger behaved.
That, however, is to abandon theology for
anthropology — admittedly an easier task, but
not the one we are asking about.
Although philosophical
anthropology can
not replace the specific disciplines dealing with the study of man, neither can those disciplines be entirely separated from it.
Many — if
not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and
anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are
not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.
The theological
anthropology inherent here is relevant,
not only for the tribals but for all peoples.
A legitimate philosophical
anthropology must know that there is
not merely a human species but also peoples,
not merely a human soul but also types and characters,
not merely a human life but also stages in life; only from the... recognition of the dynamic that exerts power within every particular reality and between them, and from the constantly new proof of the one in the many, can it come to see the wholeness of man.
However, theology need
not submit to the nemesis of historical relativism or of a linear
anthropology for its work to be valid.
He states, consistently with his Kantian commitments, that «nature itself can
not become the principle of a new way of action without some kind of mediation, without some permeation of nature through society and
anthropology».18 This allows him to keep his concerns fully within the political arena, narrowly understood.
It doesn't take an expert in
anthropology to figure out that the most important factor in determining the nature of one's existence, including one's religion, is the place and time in which one is born, a factor completely out of one's control.
But he does
not deny it as a logical possibility.158 John Cobb has sought to defend at least the credibility of subjective immortality against criticisms from
anthropology and cosmology.159 The anthropological objection is that the soul or mind can
not exist apart from the body.
«Race,» as the weight of evidence from physical
anthropology shows, is a political fiction,
not a biological fact.
«many pro-life advocates unwittingly allow this flawed
anthropology (of our contemporaries) to prosper because they do
not offer any proof or argument for the existence of the spiritual soul, which is the only rational ground for uniquely human personhood».
In an essay published in 1969 Professor Joseph Ratzinger, as he was, described Gaudium et Spes as offering a «daring new theological
anthropology» which he applauded, although he thought it had
not been well expressed in the document, which is renowned for its theological imprecision.
Eberstadt writes: «But the majority of people, to continue this complementary religious
anthropology, do
not re-invent the theological wheel this way.
You can
not go against the laws of human nature reflected in psychological
anthropology — even laws such as liminality that apply only to a select few — without disastrous results.
Having shown that the competing current
anthropologies do
not do full justice to either man's freedom or finiteness, Niebuhr turned to the Christian revelation.
It is evident, too, that a science of man is truly an
anthropology and
not a somatology or something of the kind, provided that it remains conscious of the partial nature of the source of its inquiry, does
not shut itself off in isolation, contrary to its own nature as science, and does
not constitute itself as the absolute and sole science.
These errors indicated to Niebuhr romanticism's failure to penetrate to the paradox of the human spirit.10 He maintained that the individual self can
not, be contained within the presuppositions of any of these three competing
anthropologies.
Man also derives his meaning from his pre-historical past, an important source for any adequate and valid
anthropology, but which the existentialists do
not consider.
Of course we must
not take this to imply that the New Testament presents us with an
anthropology like that which modern science can give us.