Sentences with phrase «very idea of nature»

Wilson's hybrids also suggest how, for many, the very idea of nature is always a human construction.

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When, for example, at first in the 19th century down to Pius XII the Church adopted a very reserved attitude to any inclusion of the human bios in the idea of evolution, that was motivated, and rightly so, by a fundamental conception of the nature of man which for good reasons required to be defended.

According to Judge Richard Posner, the very idea of natural law rests upon a premodern picture of nature that science has discredited.

It first displaced the idea of a natural order to which humanity is subject and thereafter the very notion of human nature itself.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

Though some of his ideas were slightly bizarre and his pan-en-theism could easily become a form of pantheism, the idea that the spiritual was bound up in the weave of creation, and that God was active in the organic growth of nature, might be very constructive.

But the very nature of the division of spiritual formation of Christians between lay leaders in the Sunday School and pastoral leaders in the church leaves people with the idea that Christian faith can be learned by attending classes.

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past.

For it can be shown, by a close comparison of the two sets of texts, that the basic metaphysical ideas to be conveyed by that study were already very much in Whitehead's mind when he was writing on the philosophy of nature?

I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there's a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let's face it, you're not living a very good life, are you?

«This world of ours is a new world,» wrote Robert Oppenheimer in 1963, «in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past» (Saturday Review of Literature, June 29, 1963, p. 11).

However, this idea has had very little effect on the way that the study of nature is pursued in the university.

For a long time now, especially among educators, there has, in fact, been an influential school of thought at war with the very idea of human nature.

Let me spell out two very clear ideas about the nature and destiny of human - ness.

The very cardinal nature of our faith is paradoxical — «Semper simul peccartor et justus» — we are simultaneously justified and sinner (Luther)-- but that truth must be expelled or certainly hushed when the construction of checks and balances which morally fence us from the bane of «the world» (dangerous ideas) become the goal for the «common good».

Both Douthat and his opponents don't quite see that the very idea of human rights depend on personal freedom from dependence on both nature and personal authority.

(3) In its most limited sense «theology proper» (as it is sometimes called) consists of ideas about God's nature and work - often the very first topic for a treatise on systematic theology.

On this week's Molby on the Spot, Trev Downey and Jan cover mid-season breaks, the idea of momentum, the next few challenges for Jürgen's Reds, transfer rumours and the significance of kit designs and that's BEFORE the second half, which is devoted to subscribers» questions of a very varied and entertaining nature.

The very idea of a free market by its own very internal logic and nature is extremely corrupt.

One Berkeley evening in 1990, while my friend Bill Poirier and I were sitting around speculating about the ultimate nature of reality, I suddenly had an idea: Our reality isn't just described by mathematics — it is mathematics, in a very specific sense.

Fortunately the same ideas predict very concrete new phenomena, a whole new world of particles that have to be accessible at the LHC and so [we have this] wonderful idea that we've been entranced by for 25 years, and the kind of the thing that Einstein dreamed of, unifying the forces, and now is the time of testing [whether these] ideas have been on the right track; whether nature has, with all these hands, has been teaching us or just teasing us.

Now that has changed completely the nature of, if that's really true, it means the future of science is very different, because if there are many universes and in each universe the laws of physics are different, then may be we have to throw out fundamental ideas and the ability to make fundamental predictions in nature [and] have to start talking about probability.

But really understanding that opens up whole new worlds of ideas and synthesis because it explains, for instance, why gravity, one of the basic forces of nature, appears to be very, very different and very, very much weaker than the other forces.

«I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature.»

Well, if this idea is true, and to be honest I personally like it very much, then the best way to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases (including Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and Graves hyperthyroidism) is by stress control, positive thinking, laughter, frequent smiling, taking care of others, helping people in need, going for a walk and enjoying life and the beauty of the nature.

But the producers» spectacular ambitions are undercut time and again by two factors: by the fact that the essential dramatic interest inheres in the grotesquely confined agonies of one man and, beyond that, in the unlikely (which is to say, in entertainment terms, likely) friendship and love of two men; and by the very nature of Franklin Schaffner as a director — that he is also one of the producers serves not so much to contradict my idea of Schaffner the director as to index an ambivalence that is the richest source of tension in the movie.

«She has been working nonstop since she arrived at HGSE on the creation of a very beautiful and unusual book for elementary age children about the nature of ideas — where they come from, how they can be nurtured, and what it takes to bring them into the world.

The group RESP, by its very nature, has a benefit that other funds do not have — they have a pretty good idea of when their investors are going to need their money.

«People have very different ideas regarding what to do, if anything, about the wild creatures in their midst,» writes Jim Sterba in his new book Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds, «even when they are causing problems.»

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Despite the sweeping nature of Wednesday's judgment there remains opposition within the Maya community itself to the very idea of communal land rights.

Whether your idea of the perfect holiday break is about doing very little or lots and if you love nature and pristine natural surroundings — the Villa Samaya Ayang is going to be a great match.

Question 1: How did you come up with the idea of putting nature at the very center of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?

You can see the launch trailer does give you a good idea about the nature of the game, and as such you have to be very vigilant, you need to have exceptional hearing but also a strong heart for when you are being chased by your mustachio'd pursuer.

They always have fresh ideas and by the very nature of their business they're free to take risks that -LSB-...] when you're in the triple As as I have been, it's difficult to take.»

Bringing together works by over 50 artists — from Duchamp and Man Ray to Andy Warhol and Martin Creed, along with some of Australia's leading practitioners — this is a one - of - a-kind salute to an idea that continues to define the very nature of contemporary art.Presented in association with Melbourne Festival

The very act of observation is inherent to human nature and starting from that commonplace the artist starts processing and articulating his thoughts and ideas.

The idea of physical limits created by the very nature of painting is permanently present in these works.

Pieter Vermeersch, (1973 ---RRB-, one of the younger generation of artists here, responds to ideas explored by artists like Piet Mondrian and Ad Reinhardt, both acknowledged influences on Tuymans himself, by testing the very nature of painting itself.

In her latest series of works, painter Fiona Rae RA has left behind her familiar working practices to explore ideas about the very nature of painting.

If art uses reality avoidance to tell us something about the very nature of reality, Katrina del Mar, in Feral Women / Filmed Portraits, her solo show at Leslie Lohman Museum's Prince Street Project Space, reveals ideas of power and beauty along with the rainbow of the real and theater.

There are many examples of this ambiguity which General Idea and AA Bronson have slipped into, not only to blur boundaries between reality and fiction but also to defy the conventions of the gaze and the very nature of what is perceptible, or rather acceptable to the eye.

The nature of what you can communicate from a thematic show is that each artist is totally unique, and it brings together artists as diverse as Lawrence Weiner, Andy Warhol, and David Smith, and well — they typically have very little to do with each other, but then you pick this one idea, and you create an exhibition with some unifying principle, and all of a sudden you get both sides.

The idea of going back to nature, back to the essential, back to the poor materials, is still very present in the art criticisms of today.

The visceral nature of their approach both degrades and heightens the photographic image and, by extension, the very idea of photography as a recording medium.

They also bring to mind the ideas of the Transcendentalists and other early American philosophical constructs as well as our never - ending national dialogue with and very real dependency on nature.

This ambivalence I have towards the nature of the term «abstract» also applies to my use of certain architectural elements, sometimes on a very large scale, in an effort to compress fragments of real architectural space onto a relatively frontal idea, vis à vis Mark Rothko for instance.

As one of the simplest geometric figures, the circle is subject to huge variation, in nature and in art, and this exhibition considers the ways in which artists have gravitated to this universal and recurring form, and to the very idea of «roundness», through a variety of processes and media including paintings, sculptures, film and photographic, alongside design objects and historical artefacts.

Through painting, sculpture, and animation, Houshiary plays with opposing ideas and states of being, including transparency and opacity, presence and absence, materiality and intangibility, and light and darkness, exploring the very nature of existence and metaphysical thought.