Sentences with phrase «shape modern understanding»
Pirahã, with its unusual features, has helped shape modern understanding of what those commonalities might be.
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It is a project in unearthing the «background understandings» that inform late modern social life and shape the way humans conceptualize the world they inhabit.
The virtue of the process understanding of God is that it avoids denying altogether the modern conception of personhood while proceeding to alter and shape it in more humane ways.
While his account is often sloppy, he is nevertheless right that the transhumanist agenda is a logical consequence of Gnosticism (which he and many others mistake for Christianity), and that this Gnosticism, which has theological roots in the Scotist - nominalist revolution in metaphysics, ever more exclusively shapes the modern cultural imagination and our understanding of what it is to be human.
One of the important consequences of the major intellectual discoveries in the modern world, from Copernicus to Einstein, is our increased understanding of the detailed empirical processes which shape our thinking, behavior, and being.
So to understand the curious political situation of modern America and our political parties, one must pay great attention to how abortion shaped (and continues to shape) electoral realities.
And when Max Weber, in his famous address Wissenschaft als Beruf, sought to shape the self - understanding of the modern academy, he did so by insisting that the academic realm, like the political and economic realms, had become and would remain governed by means - end rationality and by impersonal constraints.
It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.
The ideal modern American bourgeois individual is featured as a self - contained and self - actualized individual who can be properly understood apart from the principalities and powers that operate in society and history.4 This stereotype may be difficult for us to seriously question, for our own images of self are shaped by this very ideal.
What's interesting about the current [economic] situation is that no one could sit around a table and say, «Well, I really think those Tories have sketched out a clear shape and understanding of the modern world, that they've defined a policy agenda that's got rigour and drive at its heart.»
Through the careful study of modern and early fossil tortoise, researchers now have a better understanding of how tortoises breathe and the evolutionary processes that helped shape their unique breathing apparatus and tortoise shell.
Spike Jonze's return to the feature director's chair (and first time bringing a script he wrote entirely by himself with him) after a four year break is a thoroughly layered and personal film that is at times about the awkward nature of new relationships after a break up (and how we cope with that crushing in - between time), and at times about how technology shapes our modern world, and at times about how we demonstrate and understand love and relationships changes with both time and technology.
Shakespeare was a modern man (in as much as modernity was still taking shape) and he understood that reason, not superstition, represented the way forward to a «brave new world.»
Shock of the News promises to shape our understanding of modern artists» responses to the newspaper,» said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
A second way was to shape our understanding of lead itself, portraying it as an indispensable and healthful element essential for all modern life.
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