anthropomorphism

This characterization is of course more than a parody of primitive man; it entails a profound criticism of anthropomorphically believing humanity as Browning and as we have known it." Kenneth MacLean, "Wild Man and Savage Believer: Caliban in Shakespeare and Browning," VP 25, no.

While their founding guru Gorakhnath is universally worshiped in Nath monasteries, both anthropomorphically and in the abstract form of the mysterious amrtapdtra or patradevata (pp.

At its most anthropomorphically envisioned and denotatively malleable, "affect" signifies the circuitry of force-relations generative of a body's unquantifiable capacity to act and to be acted upon.

And of course he said that while anthropomorphically you could get a picture of a human being, God is a Spirit.

For example, in Homer's comparison of the front rank of an army to a rock that endures the winds and waves, he suggests that it is not quite correct to say that the rock is viewed anthropomorphically, "unless we add that our understanding of the rock is anthropomorphic for the same reason that we are able to look at ourselves petromorphically," since "the act of regarding the rock in human terms furnishes us with a means of apprehending and defining our own behavior." The phrasing is voluntaristic, but it is clear that Snell imagines the movement outside the human being in this exchange of perspectives as having an obligatory character, for he continues: "Man must listen to an echo of himself before he may hear or know of himself" (Snell 1953, 201).

Throughout this paper, the hypothetical sovereign state will be treated anthropomorphically in order to retain the analogy between the state and the individual, and to serve as a heuristic for the inner-workings of a state, including its government and its citizens.

It must be initially pointed out that Sartre took the notion of "divine mind" quite literally and anthropomorphically as implying what his phenomenological investigation has uncovered concerning consciousness.

Ensuring that we do not fix the sheep in their "attitude," Murphy later awakens to find them, anthropomorphically again, "on much better form," but simply--and less anthropomorphically--because of the determination of the time of day, like (Murphy muses) the "four caged owls in Battersea Park, whose joys and sorrows did not begin until dusk" (M 62).

This nature documentary, filmed in frozen Antarctica by French director Luc Jacquet in 2005, had an important media impact because the Emperor penguins were viewed anthropomorphically as offering lessons for human behaviour in what many considered a promotion of conservative family values like stable parenthood, monogamy, devotion to offspring or self-denial.

Never known for his "light pen" the artist in this work moves off into whimsy and gentle humor as the Mayor is anthropomorphically reduced to a playful, if politically crafty, pup that is immersed in the near mystical world of that ever-popular flightless bird, the penguin.

She traces this through the Hebrew Bible, finding that the depictions of God therein portray God as anthropomorphically "Normal," enforcing the normate.