Sentences with phrase «subject and object rather»

Not exact matches

One of my favorite comments I heard last year was Paul Greenberg's manifesto that buyers and consumers do not want to be an object of a sale but rather a subject of an experience.

He pointed out how, because of the dominant reductionist view of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual as «an object to be investigated, measured and experimented upon» rather than as an «irreducible subject».

Rather, the subject remained subject and the object remained object.

Rather, in the unity of the proposition, actual entities assume the form of «logical subjects» and eternal objects are transformed into the «predicative pattern.»

Mutual interaction between subject and object, knower and known, is the context for the rise of knowledge rather than that context being in the object or subject alone.

3 In speaking of the two basic elements as «poles,» I mean to accept the classical distinction of subject («noetic») and object («ontic») rather than any so - called dialectical analysis such as that provided by Paul Tillich in speaking of «polarities,» (Systematic Theology, vol.

Furthermore, it may be that the essence of time is subject to conditions which can never be associated with it a priori but rather remain extrinsic and even contradictory to it, even though they lend themselves to conceptualization and reveal time (in one of its essential aspects) as an object of practical interest.

He explains this otherness of the universe: Cosmology, in contradistinction to astronomy and astrophysics, is rather a «universology» that deals with a single, unique totality of all, which not only can not be treated as an object and hence subjected to experimentation, but also can not be made devoid of the delimiters of human insight (p. 182).

That is to say, in a technopoly, one's need for efficiency rather than social reform or greater philosophical or religious inquiry becomes the means and end, the subject and object, of society and culture.

We will again exist in a world of subjects rather than a world of objects, and such a world will call for a new type of science and a changed role for technology.44 Compared with such a revolution the issues separating liberals and Marxists are relatively minor.

These internal relationships, these new subject - object wholes — which blur the distinction between subject and object — are for Merleau - Ponty Gestalt - structured, since one feature of a Gestalt is that each part bears to others as well as to the whole interdependent rather than independent relations.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

When one considers the actual conditions that prevailed in the local congregations at the time of the Reformation and is mindful of the fact that the people themselves for many reasons lacked initiative so that, as objects rather than as subjects of action, they were dependent upon the leadership of the princes, magistrates, and church governments, one can understand why the actual calling of the ministers was in fact rarely the result of their decision.

Poor people were not the only ones wearing their babies, rather the artists took an everyday, ubiquitous object (the infant carrier) and obligation (childcare) and used it allegorically: the subject is encumbered with the responsibility for their child (ren).

Rather than tackle in detail the thorny problem of drawing a firm lines between selves and objects, the authors propose that a subject exists when there is the possibility of intersubjective recognition between us and that subject.

The Department of Taxation and Finance in New York has decided that under its currently written tax laws, ebooks are not subject to sales tax because they are downloadable information rather than a tangibly purchased object.

Laid out according to subject rather than chronology, the effect is that of a forensic case study, tracing a path from the everyday objects she called her «models» to her «portraits» — incisive studies she made across media — to her paintings, where the original subject is less abstracted than obscured by the history of her experimentation and transformations.»

Her sculptures resolve this concept of prosaic «practicality» by the refusal to sensationalise her subjects, metaphorically transcending their designated purpose and intended limitations, and taking reassurance in objects and materials existing for their own inherent value, rather than a perceived use.

The works are displayed mounted to materials such as aluminum or plexiglass, though rather than using these materials in their traditional mounting methods, the images are adhered to the surface and leaned on shelves or stood on the floor, with exposed sections of their mounting substrate and their freestanding nature highlighting the object qualities of the prints, along with their physical connection to the depicted subjects.

With frequent nods to art historical references, namely the male - dominated Abstract Expressionist movement, Amer posits the roles of women as a subject rather than an object, and explores the differences and overlaps in Muslim and Western cultures.

Bormuth has constructed a paradigm of motherhood by representing the mother as object rather than subject as he searches for realism within motherhood in art historical and societal roles.