Sentences with phrase «traditional conceptions»

He notes that modem (Western) consciousness may find traditional conceptions of God and the supernatural highly improbable.

In honor of National Women's History Month, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) spotlights five stellar women artists whose potent work and individual practices celebrate womanhood and female autonomy, call into question responses to gender parity, and transcend traditional conceptions of gender identity to address broader issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and tolerance for all humans.

Lack of empathy, inflated self appraisal, and superficial charm are features that have been commonly included in traditional conceptions of psychopathy that may be particularly distinguishing of the disorder and more predictive of recidivism in prison or forensic settings, where criminal, delinquent, or aggressive acts are likely to be nonspecific.

Both predict bizarre phenomena that defy traditional conceptions of reality.

Given free rein to create a total experience, Karim used his signature curvaceous forms and lollipop colours to offer a young, enthusiastic and seductive alternative to more traditional conceptions of hospitality.

Mass immigration has introduced new ethnic and religious loyalties (Arab and Muslim) and provoked nativist responses (white and at least culturally Catholic) that seek to curb immigration, restore traditional conceptions of national identity, and, at their most extreme, precipitate a supposedly inevitable civil war between natives and immigrants.

We do know that if theism can not be proved, neither can it be disproved, unless by theism we mean various traditional conceptions or the all - surpassing Being that recent philosophies of religion, say since Hegel, have criticized as objectionable for religious reasons.

Surely God (on the more or less traditional conception Creel has) could produce physical triangles (or physical objects instantiating particular triangular shapes) as fast as he could think of the shapes.

Sydney V. James has indicated one important way traditional conceptions of virtue could be reconciled with the new civil religion.

The students will look at the parable of the sheep and goats and the message that this sends, as well as traditional conceptions of heaven and hell.

Riley's early curve paintings from the 1960s, which open the exhibition, shook traditional conceptions of art almost literally: their disorientating contour lines are too much for the eyes and brain to process, so that they genuinely seem to vibrate and undulate on the wall.

Bourgeois» work has formed the flashpoint for a renewed interest in the field of printmaking, a renewed interest which has pushed traditional conceptions and boundaries, inspiring a new generation of artists to create prints.

Trained as a painter, Reusser questions traditional conceptions of aesthetic visualization.

The strength of «7 on 7» lies in its artists» abilities to use traditional conceptions of sin to cleverly illuminate the contemporary social, environmental, and governmental powers that structure these moral categories, asking us to reflect on our own virtues and vices.

Julianne Swartz creates memorable environments by transforming the way we experience a place, subverting traditional conceptions of space.

The jurors wrote in their decision, «Butterly's voluptuous ceramic objects explode traditional conceptions of earthenware art through careful manipulation of the medium, resulting in unconventional forms, colors and surfaces.

The facts are still under investigation but it appears that the situation of these women may not have fitted traditional conceptions of slavery because they had some freedom to leave the premises where they were living.

One of the dominant marks of present - day discussion is the revolt against traditional conceptions of all the human loves.

Simpson first came to prominence in the 1980s for her large - scale works that combined photography and text and defied traditional conceptions of sex, identity, race, culture, history, and memory.

Chaim Soutine: Flesh will present his work in still - life, from the artist's early years in Paris and Céret, through the early 1930s, showing his development from more traditional conceptions to the impressive achievement of the paintings of the mid-1920s.

Cinephilia, like film studies and film criticism, has tended to be torn between two opposing goals: breaking down the barriers between disciplines and traditional conceptions of art, and shoring up its own legitimacy by appealing to those very categories it sought to undermine.

It's so long, in fact, that Gratton suggests we completely jettison our traditional conception of the three - stage life — education, work, retirement.

Voice assistants are delivering personalized and salient information to their users, while also advancing our traditional conceptions of search.

Whitehead's organic theory of nature is used metaphorically by Stapledon as he breaks down our traditional conceptions of mind and matter.

Guided by a dynamic understanding of propositions, one that can account for a process view of the world, Whitehead abandons the traditional conception of propositions.

The interests of scientists and the theoretical and technological consequences of scientific research have been such that, on the whole, science has become a major contributor to and servant of the traditional conception of power.

The true alternative to the traditional role of the masculine as the active agent who influences is not the traditional conception of the feminine as the passive recipient of the influence.

Size can also be determined by the freedom with which one's love of the other transcends the «in spite of» character of the traditional conception of love and moves toward an unqualified «because of.»

One of the interesting implications of Marx's interpretation of the role of philosophic study is that the traditional conception of philosophy is essentially feminine in outlook.

It has been a major basis for the traditional conception of order.

The traditional conception of power is inadequate to help us in our possible evolution toward this goal.

Those who conceptualize within the imagery of nonrelational or substantive modes of thought, and / or who find it difficult to transcend the traditional conception of power as unilateral, may also be uneasy with the conception of relational power.

Hegelianism was an «absolute» rationalism that left few believing in the traditional conceptions of reason or truth.

The Epistle to the Hebrews lets us see that it was not very long before the relevance of the traditional conception of the Priest as a type of the «Messiah» became evident.

This point of view is relevant to the recent «Death of God» theologies.9 It is possible that the new humanism and the declaration of the absence of God reflects a deep dissatisfaction with the traditional conceptions of God.

To the extent that traditional conceptions of morality require a recognition of some salutary dependence upon nature, or of insuperable limitations on human self - transformation, science must be understood as an outright rejection of them.

published just a few years ago decided to delve into how well - adjusted children who came into families via methods other than traditional conception are.

One particular study published just a few years ago decided to delve into how well - adjusted children who came into families via methods other than traditional conception are.

As crazy as it may seem to the traditional conception of dieting, eating fat does not make you fat.