Sentences with phrase «reject traditional concepts»

Jean Dubuffet and Larry Poons: Material Topographies will explore the radical experimentation of both artists as they began to utilize unorthodox materials and reject traditional concepts of pictorial space in search of a direct, physical language.

It is important in discussing Whitehead's concept of immortality to remember that Whitehead has rejected the traditional concept of the soul as a substance, a thing.

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A great many people today are insisting that we must reject traditional images of power, but they lack an alternative concept of power upon which to base new images.

The modern sciences of genetics and ecology have clearly provided empirical grounds for rejecting these traditional race concepts and for recognizing the fundamental role of education in the creation of human personality — especially in respect to qualities that are so manifestly reflections of cultural patterns.

Whitehead's philosophy requires a broader conception of time, for example, one which will allow for the reality of the past in the present, a concept that the traditional metaphysician would likely judge as intuitively false, leading to the additional judgment that much of human experience is appearance rather than reality, a position which we reject, having come to a greater understanding of Whitehead's metaphysics.

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.

The least that can be said from a reading of this passage is that John Paul II, while not explicitly rejecting the concept of remedium concupiscentiae, suggests that «traditional theological language» on the matter has remained one - sided precisely because of a failure to weigh the sacramental implications of marriage.

A style of post-1960s art which rejected the traditional values and politically conservative assumptions of its predecessors, in favour of a wider, more entertaining concept of art, using new artistic forms enriched by video and computer - based technology.