Therefore, it is possible for the self-thinking divine essence to understand itself in a single act of understanding so perfectly that this act of understanding not only understands the divine essence as it is in itself, but also in respect of all possible ways in which it can be imperfectly participated by any finite creature.
Maps like Snow's allowed the modern city to remake itself and to understand itself in a new way.
Andrew Rossi's 2010 documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times showed a big-name newspaper struggling to understand itself in the internet age.
They are not especially interesting to look at, but the self-reflexive concept is catchy: a tool of archaeology becomes a hallowed icon for a civilization that seeks to understand itself in the mirror of archaeology.
In sum, great art works by selectively focusing an historical community's tacit sense of what is and what matters and reflecting it back to that community, which thereby comes implicitly to understand itself in the light of this artwork.
Put simply, great artworks help establish the implicit ontology and ethics through which an historical community understands itself and its world.[6] In keeping with this (initially strange) doctrine of ontological historicity, Heidegger understands "truth" ontologically as the historically-dynamic disclosure of intelligibility in time.
"Keeping Up With the Kardashians," is, as the title suggests, a window into a family — a family that seems to understand itself only in terms of its collective opportunism.
But the movement understood itself as engaged in a struggle for something more foundational: for citizenship, the status from which freedom and equal rights flowed.
Also for both, logic, in this encompassing sense, is independent of intuitive considerations, and specifically of geometry (understood itself as grounded in intuition).
This is something Louis Vuitton has always understood, ingratiating itself in the lives of artists for the last 155 years.
