What does the term "public intellectual" mean to me?
No problem today — poverty, clean energy or national security — is beyond our technical and intellectual means.
It was a subtle exploration of the impossibility of understanding art and artists through intellectual means.
It obscures the problems of a small independent country with a lopsided economy, the problems of a fully 'consumer' society that is yet technologically untrained and without the intellectual means to comprehend the deficiency".
The Laboratory seeks, on one hand, to develop basic understanding and intellectual means to model complex phenomena and, on the other hand, to create a foundation for building new high-performance technologies which can be used to further research progress.
Upon his father's death Gallienus had put an end to the persecution of the Christians, preferring to fight the new religion through intellectual means; to that end, he favoured the ancient Greek cults (Demeter of Eleusis) and protected the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus.
He wanted to portray nature as it would be depicted by a primitive person or a child equipped with the intelligence of a 20th-century adult; in this respect, he had much in common with the Surrealists and Dadaists, two schools of modern artists who were striving to achieve similar aims by more intellectual means than those used by Miró.
The Laboratory seeks, on one hand, to develop basic understanding and the intellectual means to model complex phenomena and, on the other hand, to create a foundation for building new high-performance technologies which can be used to further research progress.
The laboratory itself puts it this way: "The constant tension between individual focus and intergroup collaborations leads to highly specialized strengths and collective efforts that arise from the mutual interest of many investigators, The focus is on basic understanding, and the development of intellectual means to model increasingly complex phenomena.
On the other hand, to achieve that end, they proceed by intellectual means, exactly as a philosopher, or even to some extent a scientist, can and would do". Like Lévi-Strauss' thinking on how mythology constructs ways of thinking, Schapiro was also interested in how form and content conveyed societal and cultural patterns.
