Sentences with phrase «relation to human scale»

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Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Yet the capacity to split genes and atoms, and to effect the environment on a new scale and in grave ways, is only one reason human power — and its relation to divine power — has become a theological preoccupation.

Christian anthropology's emphasis on human personhood fulfilling itself in interaction with persons, leads it to give priority to preserve and develop small - scale social institutions which enable face to face relations to promote personal values and humanize people.

Here is the basis of Augustine's view that virginity is the highest human state, celibacy next, and that there is a scale of nobility in relation to continence after bereavement, with renunciation always receiving the highest honour.17

Dr Fida said: «By using the scale, management and Human Resources may gain an all - round understanding of their employees over the course of their career, and may assess and monitor individuals» beliefs in relation to different self - regulatory capabilities.

With The Great Acceleration, curator Nicolas Bourriaud takes this year's curatorial topic, Art and Its New Ecosystem: A Global Set of Relations, to explore the acceleration of industrialisation, the dawn of the Anthropocene era, and the collapse of the «human scale».

«Certainly the scale of my work is always in relation to the human body.

VIP Art Fair's innovative technology presents artworks in relation to other works of art and in relative scale to the human figure.

Through scale and proportion relative to the human body, the viewer is made conscious of the crossing from one area of the gallery to the next, and hence, of his or her own relation to the space.

Taking the form of a pyramidal cross-section (or wedge), Donovan's installation approaches the scale of architecture in relation to the human body.

(I'm moderating a discussion of climate policy between Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations and Joe Romm, the Climateprogress blogger, and I gave an opening talk on communicating what I see as the story of our time — the human transition through a kind of species - scale, puberty - style growth spurt to whatever comes next.)

Effects of AGW combined with other large scale problems in the earth system (related or not), in relation to the human system such as peak oil, bees dying, ocean degradation, soil nutrient loss, soil moisture loss all point to the punitive effects of mankind's collective tax upon himself.