Sentences with phrase «philosophical texts»

Some people think it will just be more philosophical texts.

They're not artistic works, but even philosophical texts have multiple published editions due to different interpretations, and collections of knowledge are periodically updated with new information (or rendered obsolete).

His films, often described as «visual essays», move from rhetorical questions to factual scientific statements, presenting concepts and ideas that emerge through philosophical texts and research.

This is a comprehensive, philosophical text on human interactions within the natural world.

Like Shawcross's sculptures, Idris Khan's paintings employ a radial pattern comprised of lines of stamped philosophical texts in luminous white on a white gesso ground.

(It's no accident that Heraclitus's The Cosmic Fragments, philosophical texts about the world rather than just man, makes a brief but pointed appearance.)

His philosophical background shows up in his list of eight books that changed his life: thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Jiddu Krishnamurti appear on the list, as does the ancient Chinese philosophical text Tao Te Ching.

In medieval philosophical texts one idea often given as an example of impossibility was the «rose in the winter.»

(ENTIRE BOOK) The great mid-nineteenth century Danish poet - philosopher, in this classic philosophical text, explores, through the story of Abraham and his willing sacrifice of his son Issac, the nature of belief.

That's a famous, influential Greek philosophical text describing * 3 distinct s.exual orientations * (het.ero / male g.ay / le.sbian) in the same manner we describe it today.

«Questions about what kinds of things exist go all the way back to the earliest philosophical texts,» says Jan Westerhoff, a philosopher at the University of Oxford.

An ancient ethical philosophical text, Pirkei Avot, or Chapters of the Fathers, explains that anger manifests in four different ways.

This he did in the old tradition, whereby important philosophical texts are transmitted orally from master to student, so he learned it by heart.

He studied, hatayoga, vinyasakrama, chanting of several chapters of the yajurveda, yoga sutras, and Sanskrit philosophical texts like the upanishad vidyas from Taittiriya, Mandukya, Mundaka, Chandogya, Brihadaranyaka and others, yoga sutras, samkhya karika the Gita etc..

He spent nine years in Asia studying yoga asana, Sufism, Sanskrit language, and Indian philosophical texts, contextualizing them within the turbulent political times of that period in history.

It's a whimsical look at one of the world's best - known Eastern philosophical texts — from the perspective of an adorable pug.

This was the beginning of a period of expropriation in which philosophical texts were reproduced as paintings, published in books and magazines, or hung directly on gallery walls for hapless viewers to plough through.

One Chinese philosophical text, the Inward Training, teaches that balancing your emotions by balancing your body allows you to avoid being held hostage to life's little ups and downs, like a flat tire, an angry email, or even the high (and subsequent letdown) of a fantastic weekend away.

In the philosophical texts of the time knowledge of God was derived through certain well - defined ways of knowing: by a process of successive abstractions — e.g., in the way one moves from a surface to a line and finally to a point in geometry; by analogy — i.e., by comparing the light of the sun and visible things with the light of God and intellectual things; or by contemplating physical objects and gradually moving to the contemplation of intellectual matters.

This hypothesis has had perhaps the strongest and most fateful history of any philosophical text in Western civilization.

... These are things you need to clarify if you're going to be spouting off about religious / historical / philosophical texts... Just a common academic courtesy...

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

The first artefacts to shoot for the moon could be three religious and philosophical texts.

Of course, you do n`t need to write the philosophical text about the severity of choice.

The title references the philosophical text Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

The choice of name is indicative of the artist's emphasis on the importance of language as well as materiality, and underscores his interests in a conceptual interrogation of sculpture and linguistics, as well as poetry and philosophical texts.

Philosophical texts, theories of representation, and notions of abstraction inform Otero's process, but his most central inspiration is personal.

Each event will comprise of a panel discussion followed by a two - hour seminar allowing a closer look at the philosophical texts and arguments in play.

Inspired by Roland Barthes's philosophical text A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (1977), the work embodies the push - pull dynamic of romantic relationships, capturing what Zimbardo describes as «the dualities of cooperation and struggle, action and passivity, speech and silence.»

In recent series, Voigt has applied her unique visual method in the deconstruction of works of literature and philosophical texts, highlighting specific words and passages that resonate with her.

«Meatyard's evocative photographs have been exhibited around the world, but are rarely presented in the context of his intense, lifelong engagement with poetry, fiction, and philosophical texts,» explains exhibition curator Jessica S. McDonald.

An exhibition of Brătescu's work that gyrates around the philosophical texts of the Greek writer Aesop is currently on view at Hauser & Wirth through December 23