Sentences with phrase «radical notions as»

Yet today, that same thesis is liable to provoke a firestorm as intense as when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas started paying compliments to such extremist and radical notions as Aristotelian natural law theory.

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Pluralism, much as it continues to be prized among liberals, is a self - destructive notion rejected by both radicals and conservatives.

For example, what has come about in the shift of imagery exemplified in the new physics and in emergent thinking generally represents not so much a reaction as a radical reconception of fundamental notions, altering the modern consciousness itself.

James took up this notion of Kierkegaard's and advanced the notion of thinking forward as we live forward in his Essays on Radical Empiricism, p. 238.

We can understand this failure as Percy's again having independently reached the same conclusion as MacIntyre: that the ethical can not be simply radically chosen, because the notion of the radical choice is itself only at home in the aesthetic mode.

Southern writers whose assessments of the Civil War defamed the North and idealized the South, share in the blame, as do radicals in the civil rights movement who promoted the notion that American principles are racist.

Yet so entrenched is the concept of religion as belief in authoritative, ready - made doctrines that when that notion is challenged the whole edifice of religion may be rejected, as in traditional naturalistic humanism or the more bizarre «radical theologies» currently in vogue.

We shall not achieve it immediately, but we shall strive,» even his slight qualification of optimism gave warning of a radical shift toward a realistic temper.1 Whatever realism there has been in the spirit of democracy, and there has been a great deal, it has generally had superimposed upon it a vision of perfection, and with a notion of man's life as continually moving toward a higher and higher good.

Consequently, radical empiricism fully conceived is not only an epistemological notion, but a pragmatic notion.3 (The pragmatic side of this lesson has been overlearned by most of today's neopragmatists, who are so skeptical of epistemological beginnings that they seem to treat knowledge as sheerly speculative and fasten to pragmatic tests to determine the viability of a speculation in a world that, for all they sometimes seem to know and care, is made only of words and wild guesses about how words might be newly arranged.)

While Tinder never explicitly equates his notion of agape with rights - based claims, he is not as careful as he might have been to make clear the radical distinction between these two ideas.

To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.

In the past, she's portrayed characters with no trouble accepting a variety of ridiculous notions, ranging from metal - skinned murder skeletons and men with spider powers, to the racial superiority of whites and M. Night Shyamalan's role as a writer of radical, world - changing power.

Taking the commercial colour chart as its point of departure, the exhibition emphasises a radical transformation in the post-War Western art that is characterised by the departure from such notions as originality, uniqueness and authenticity.

Andre was at the forefront of this crusade, and his sculptures — comprised of systems of regular units placed in grid - like formations and lying flat on the ground — became synonymous with this radical new form of art. 100 Copper Square is an outstanding example of the work he created in the 1960s and rejects the notion of sculpture as an object mounted on a pedestal and viewed from a distance.

After digesting its lessons in our school days, many painters have rediscovered the once - radical notion from the 1960s and 70s that how we make paintings is just as important as what we paint.

The radical underpinnings of Art & Language, for instance, as seen in a propagandistic series of Ten Posters from 1977, are juxtaposed with two later works dealing with the suppression of information in abstract painting — yet the notion of an anonymous author remains constant.

At CCS Bard she will continue this research further, intertwining the artist's garden in a layered field of research including contemporary notions of ecology, the anthropocene, botany, practices of community - and radical gardening, as well as the more cultural historical tradition.

The notion of walking as a form of sculpture was considered a radical idea when the artist, at age 22, made a work, titled A Line Made by Walking (1967) and gave new meaning to an activity as old as man himself, states Nicholas Serota, director of Tate Britain in London: «nothing in the history of art quite prepared us for the originality of his actions.»

With this new and relatively radical body of work, however, Davis introduced the notion of depicting a three - dimensional abstract shape emanating from the wall as a monochromatic form.

Though radical politics were unusual for such an artist, the conception of landscape as a repository of history was a common aspect of contemporary views of the land and of romantic notions of landscape.

Woods's capacity as a gifted technician and radical theorist of contemporary architecture resulted in a singular body of work that undermined current notions of how to successfully create places in which to live and work.

Converge 45: YOU IN MIND is conceived as an «art convergence in four chapters» that takes an acute and particular care about the idea and ethos of Portland's inherent positivity to amplify (for good purpose) the generous hand of independent artists whose practices tend towards perpetuating / activating the now radical notion of our cultural commons... It is my intention with YOU IN MIND that the projects we exhibit and / or present, focus on artists who have a «public» in mind, conceptually, structurally and / or are actively present within the resulting work itself.

But reports of Apple adopting OLED as part of a radical, all - glass redesign for next year's iPhone have popped up repeatedly in recent months, and the notion of Apple using a third device to introduce it isn't new either.