Sentence examples for outer nature from inspiring English sources

According to the critical theorists, the oppression of "outer nature" (i.e., the natural environment) through science and technology is bought at a very high price: the project of domination requires the suppression of our own "inner nature" (i.e., human nature)—e.g., human creativity, autonomy, and the manifold needs, vulnerabilities and longings at the centre of human life.

Contrary to this, the transhumanist approach extrapolates a state of command over the inner and outer nature of man, which seems to enable him to reach out to his natural-historical basis.

The primary object of this exhaustive analysis was an understanding not so much of outer nature as of the human person (puggala).

Because Buddhist philosophers denied any permanence, whether in outer nature or in inner life, they felt compelled to undertake a detailed, systematic, and complete listing and classification of the different elements that constitute both the external world and the mental, inner life.

Instrumental reason leads us to dominate outer nature by taking outer nature to be meaningless apart from the way it can satisfy the prerogatives of our self-preservation.

Similarly, his book might have been entitled, The Inner and Outer Nature of Reality.

FO Matthiessen, in his American Renaissance, points out how much the great writers of that renaissance owed to the English writers of the 17th century - Donne and Herbert, Marvell and Browne - with their belief in correspondences between the little and the large, the inner world of the self and the outer world of nature.

Lohmann 1993 suggestively sums up Horkheimer's point by referring to the domination of outer and inner nature as a process of "desubstantialization" (p. 392).

The inner human pain touches the outer pain of nature, dissolving the canvas in a cathartic rain of tears.

A1 Nature Shifts Outer Banks Engineers in the Outer Banks of North Carolina are struggling to restore the roads and buildings that are vital to tourism while respecting the area's landscape.

β-Barrel transmembrane proteins, present in nature as outer membrane proteins (OMPs), comprise one of the two transmembrane protein fold classes.