Sentences with phrase «recognition of her mortality»

But also a great myth, needed to help us build a dike that holds back recognition of our mortality.

He is a creature who, like all others, is mortal but who is unique because he knows that he is mortal; man is the animal who is aware of death and therefore is able to «prepare» for it by living in terms which allow for a recognition of mortality.

She obviously had not yet gotten her rational side to reconcile with the recognition of her mortality.

Rowling pushed her young readers into a recognition of mortality and loss.

When death is supposed to be a genuine factor in a comedy like this, the dour recognition of mortality ends up competing against the straightforwardness of a mirthful good time.

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Philosophers from Parmenides to Hegel constructed the concept of the All as a fabrication of reason; Rosenzweig demands that we abandon this in favor of the recognition that our relationship to the All stems from our sentience of mortality.

There is no need to dwell constantly on mortality; healthy recognition of the reality does not require us to spend much of our time in meditating on the subject.

In the psychiatric hospital of «Iron Maiden,» a routine chest X-ray opens a window onto a nightmare vision of medieval torture and a recognition of how our mortality drives all of us to madness.

He drew inspiration from work of French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, who claimed that our individual obligations and morality are found in the recognition of the suffering and mortality of others.

Despite the documented direct effects of physical abuse on the health of children, the recognition that early childhood trauma is a leading predictor of adult morbidity and early mortality, and the enormous indirect costs of funding the social and legal systems required to investigate abuse, protect children, hold perpetrators accountable and treat affected families, available public resources have not adequately addressed the problem.