Sentences with phrase «philosophical inquiry»

Formalism was an attempt on philosophical inquiry into the very nature of art, and as such was one approach among many others, like Voluntarism, Intellectualism and Naturalism.
-- nor when actively engaged in philosophical inquiry toward answering the leading question «Is this witness true?»
Bookended by more familiar features of Sam Esmail's fictional universe — grief, regret, philosophical inquiries on the meaning of «deletion,» digital and analog — the heart of the hour is a sweet, surprisingly funny two - hander, a buddy comedy discovered on the edge of despair.
Each ferry viewers through philosophical inquiry with the unexpected oars of empathy, play, story and humor.
Rather, «one pursues a certain part of the theological task by engaging in historical inquiry, and another part by philosophical inquiry, and so on» (37; cf. 58).
Some of the subjects that she explore are bio-genetic engineering, hybrids, botanical illustration, scientific specimens, and nature as metaphor for philosophical inquiry.
In true philosophical inquiry, round numbers never fit in the square pegs of the unbalanced thinking at Notes From Underground.
In his usual manner, Pieper pushes philosophical inquiry up to and sometimes a little over the edge of theology, but is always respectful of the indispensable part of revelation in attaining true wisdom.
I am using «natural theology» to refer to conclusions of philosophical inquiry supportive of some Christian teaching from data that are understood to be factually and logically independent of Christian revelation.
But if philosophical inquiry thus discovers contingent aspects in God's full actuality, it also discovers the intrinsic limits of its own inquiry into the mystery of God, for no amount of ingenious argument can deduce the concrete, historical character of that which happens to be, but which could have been otherwise.
Experimental and philosophical inquiry gradually discovers these orders; it perceives them working to maintain themselves in being, defending themselves against imbalances, and overcoming obstacles.
Sam Adams at Indiewire said its obsession with sex made it «awfully hard to accept True Detective as the sobersided philosophical inquiry it presents itself as: Phil - bro - sophical is more like it.»
There's a scene near the conclusion of Woody Allen's latest trifle, Magic in the Moonlight, that recalls the filmmaker's finest work in its fusion of earnest philosophical inquiry and black, self - effacing comedy.
Questions revolving around education have been central to philosophical inquiry ever since Plato, and they remain urgent in our own day.
Spearheading this movement, Robert Irwin began to take ideas from philosophical inquiries into the nature of human experience and radical advances in perceptual psychology and combine them with the immersive abstraction that had been pioneered by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.
While skilled and elegant in their form, more importantly, the construction and subjects of Tilford's work reveals an epistemological discourse that treats the artistic process as a way of thinking concurrent with a range of other philosophical inquiry.
Edited and annotated by painter Mira Schor, the 500 - page book includes letters, lectures, journal entries, and published essays from the 1930s to the 1980s in which Tworkov intersperses unpretentious philosophical inquiry with progress reports from the studio.
With philosophical inquiry as a platform, our intergenerational program poses questions in the territories of conceptual practice, political agency and shifting modes of discourse relevant to the changing landscape of contemporary art and culture.
Her research interests are focused on the relations between philosophical inquiry, perception and art practice, with a particular emphasis on phenomenology and the work of Maurice Merleau - Ponty.
The three years that Magritte spent in Paris, taking part in the activities of the French Surrealist circle, remain an expression of the core foundation of his unique philosophical inquiry into the relationship between literal and figurative language.
Relying also on the images that surround us, John Baldessari encourages the viewer's attention to minor details, absence, and the space between things, and through his manipulation of the image, and the painting over the faces with primary colors, and the obscuring of the portions of the scenes, challenges and creates philosophical inquiries into art and knowledge.
Ranging across Johns's entire career — from his breakthrough paintings of the 1950s, which paved the way for the subsequent development of Pop art and Minimalism, to his most recent work — the survey offers a rich overview of the visual and philosophical inquiries central to Johns's practice and illuminates his enormous impact on artistic developments following Abstract Expressionism.
The practice of alchemy, a precursor to modern chemistry, was a deep philosophical inquiry based on the desire to discover a way to transform base metals into gold.
If you thought this most philosophical inquiry was beyond the remit of the judicial system then you should read this case.
In primary schools, groups such as SAPERE (the Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education) and The Philosophy Foundation are already doing pioneering work involving children in philosophical inquiry.
He shows considerable knowledge of the horrors of the modern world and speaks with simplicity, informed by philosophical inquiry, about what the Roman Catholic Church can do to counter it.
Her polyphonic and speculative ensembles, which often comprise a large number of individual components, combine an exploration of questions in art with philosophical inquiries into issues such as the essence of time, place, and language and their interrelations.
It is New Orleans» distinct history that makes it an illuminating source of philosophical inquiry for the present.
We do not ask our Courts to engage in capacious moral or philosophical inquiry.
It is precisely the function of the category of testimony — the central category of this second phase of our philosophical inquiry — to dismantle a little further the fortress of consciousness.
So for Badiou, the set is at the origin, but his philosophical inquiry never gets into the matter of how the set itself came into being.
Technology and the Character of contemporary Life: A Philosophical inquiry.
They are events of philosophical inquiry and of religious revelation — events though which humanity becomes attuned to the mystery of being.
Starting with the Greeks and their philosophical inquiries, Impey traces the scientific work on the origins of life and the evolution of Earth and of distant worlds.
When the season does intermittently sag beneath the weight of its extensive world - building and philosophical inquiries, Altered Carbon still manages to enthrall audiences with a winding detective mystery told in timeless noir fashion.
Daniel Clowes is one of the great graphic novelists and jaundiced wits of our time, creator of fantastically bitter characters whose litanies of complaint and twisted avenues of philosophical inquiry would be tragic, or merely pathetic, if they weren't also really funny.
Appropriately, Carloss James Chamberlin's extensive discussion follows the film's own path of philosophical inquiry, bypassing the national context altogether.
The richness of Leigh's philosophical inquiry has ironically and tellingly flown over the heads of persons stuck on Sally Hawkins's performance, but there's no doubting that the popularity of the film feels as passionate as a ribald flamenco dance — something you could never say about Howard's frosty motion picture.
Descartes would be proud of the philosophical inquiry going on here: Pete doesn't pretend to be these things; he decides to take on various personae.
People often assume poetry exists in the realm of thought, lost in philosophical inquiry and romantic meanderings.
I think that Everything might best be summarized as an interactive philosophy lecture — and before you groan at the prospective boredom, consider that this particular brand of philosophical inquiry has been torturing philosophers for centuries.
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