Sentences with phrase «whose understanding of human nature»

Contrary to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose understanding of human nature stops with the barrier of skin, Bakhtin trusts that unspoken and misspoken differences have the potential to bring us closer together through the desire to know otherwise.

Not exact matches

He preened himself as an authority in the humanities as well as in the clinic, a scientist whose understanding of sex, and of our tendencies to deny and repress its power, gave him the key to understanding human nature and made him a bearer of the cold light of fact to an ignorant and myth «ridden civilization.

Releasing the film as two separate entities allows the audience to choose whose side to see first; a fascinating experiment into the nature of belief, human understanding and the role memory plays in forming us into the people we are.