If the whole point of Remembrance Day is one of quiet individual contemplation, the act of choosing to pay tribute to unimaginable horror and sacrifice in an understatedly personal way, then this unseemly episode seemed the opposite.
Social practice is a relatively new term for art that puts less emphasis on objects made for individual contemplation and more energy into projects involving participation, activism or community organizing.
Over the course of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, the notion of music as a conduit to spirituality has taken a variety of forms: individual contemplation, communal praise, the physical discipline of dance, a rock star's beatific charisma.
Sometimes Rousseau favors a procedural story according to which the individual contemplation of self interest (subject to the constraints of generality and universality and under propitious sociological background conditions such as rough equality and cultural similarity) will result in the emergence of the general will from the assembly of citizens.
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Therefore, although the religious community aims at maintaining its historic faith as a framework within which to interpret experience of the divine, every such community must find ways of recognizing both novel experience and fresh insight resulting from individual reflection and contemplation.
Jane Goodall, among others, has observed the complex emotions of chimps and has noted that in times of stress, or when in need of quiet contemplation, individual chimpanzees take themselves away from the group to a beautiful spot, to rest and watch waterfalls, for example.
For example, the individual in pre-contemplation is not currently considering a change.
The 12-item Readiness to Change Alcohol Questionnaire (Heather et al., 1993) based on the Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change model (Prochaska et al., 1992) was used to classify an individual into precontemplation, contemplation, or action concerning their alcohol use.
At TED2012, author and self-identified introvert Susan Cain gave a passionate talk aiding the argument that today's office design must still support contemplation and individual work.
The two main conceptual advances offered by these findings are that there is an identifiable neural pattern associated with perception and contemplation of individual objects, and that part of the pattern is shared across participants.
