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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Sentient"”.
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Le Sentient Du Donheur Chez Andre Gide
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EXPERIENCING THE SACRED: A phenomenological exploration of architecture as sentient space
Experiencing the Sacred considers how a sense of sacredness in architecture comes from lived, embodied experience, rather than the presence of religious symbols or functions. Utilizing phenomenological thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Pallasmaa, and Norberg-Schulz, this thesis …
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An ecosystem for the sentient object - Two new taxonomic models for New Zealand museums
If it could be demonstrated that both indigenous and western artefacts possess a life essence, what kind of ecosystem would they live in, and could this premise be applied to better care for our collections in the wider museum context? In my thesis, I explore what can be learnt from the cultural …
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Sacred Plant, Sentient Earth: A Vegetal Geography of Healing in a More-Than-Human World
… of emplaced relationships with an animate, sentient Earth. The process of renewing our relationship with Earth relies upon a deep process of ‘re-membering’; a liberatory praxis of decolonising dominant western worldviews and recovering healing knowledge through an embodiment of …
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Of Cyborgs and Chimeras: Our Future With Emerging Technologies
… needs to be expanded and upgraded into the sentient condition, which, by promoting a compassionate and respectful approach to all sentient beings and their potential, encourages a reconciliation among humans, nature, and technology and leads to a better and sustainable future.
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Artifacts of the Kree
… objects were curated second hand by an unknown sentient species and cataloged in the system presented here.
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Contemplation and the Human Animal in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
… sensitive soul is the soul possessed by all sentient beings, that is, animals, and thus, in examining the role of the sensitive soul in human contemplation we learn about the way the animal side of our nature participates in contemplation.</p><p>According to Aquinas, we possess natural …
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Rituals of the enchanted world: Noh theater and religion in medieval Japan
… and invisible world, human and non-human, sentient and non-sentient, enlightened and conditioned. The introduction traces the religious and ritual origins of Noh theater, and establishes the characteristics of the genre that make it possible for Noh to be offered up as an alternative to the …
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Cheap Apocalypse
… of animals, plants, and other entities (both sentient and not). By re-imagining the humanist binary which has long separated humans from the natural world, <em>Cheap Apocalypse</em> will provide attention to the animate and inanimate alike whose fates are at stake with environmental …
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A Part Not Apart: A First-Person Exploration of the Role of Reciprocity in Decolonizing Relationships
… in relation to everything else in creation, sentient and nonsentient, living and nonliving. Key recommendations emphasize increasing capacity for reciprocity by embodying curiosity, accountability, connection, vulnerability, creativity, and humility.
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Beyond the Threshold: Allusions to the Òrìsà in Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series
… is Mendieta's belief that the elements are sentient and powerful beings. This perception is particularly strong in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, a creolized form of the Òrìsà tradition of the Yoruba of West Africa introduced to the Americas during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. While …
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Enabling a Speculative EcoGothic? Blood Moss, an Original Novella and a Critical Reflection
… leading him to hypothesise that the forest is sentient and agentive. Beyond mere setting, the forest emerges as a vital character in the novella, influencing my treatment of narrative structure. In addition to the novella, my project has a critical component in which I discuss Blood Moss in …
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The Singularity of Witness : Memory, Poetry and the Refugee.
… refugees more specifically, will be discussed as sentient in addition to being calculable and thus, as the very political agents, constituted and addressed through a rhetoric of responsibility, that inform the ways in which we as researchers comport ourselves in the world of humanity. Each chapter …
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A study on the ethical structure of Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna: a critique of the consequentialist approach
… ontological concepts of Buddhism regarding a sentient being's mind. In addition, this approach has some radical arguments, such as justifying harming others, which can be hardly accepted by a common understanding of Buddhism. In order to dispute consequentialist approach, I mainly examine the …
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Detecting and Modelling Stress Levels in E-Learning Environment Users
… Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) should be sentient of a learner's cognitive and affective states, as a learner’s performance could be affected by motivational and emotional factors. It is important to design a method that supports low-cost, task-independent and unobtrusive sensing of a …
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Water as Pedagogy
… My aim is to study the ways in which water as a sentient being, healing spirit, and teacher taught me about human and more-than-human relationships. Deploying an Indigenous womxnist and feminist theoretical lens interwoven with land-based, active participatory Indigenous research methods, and the …
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A comparison of Aristotelian and Buddhist ethics and the implications for a "moral way" for young people
… agency in contrast to the inseparability of all sentient beings in Buddhism. But an examination of their similarities reveals how reason and emotion contribute to each, and how both are teleological in assuming that a person has a final end. The interplay of Aristotelian habituation and Buddhist …
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(In)humans: Shifting Narratives of Race And Species In Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
… the established genre convention of non-human sentient species to tell stories that both critique and reinforce hegemonic narratives of race. I begin with an overview of the fantasy genre's thorny history with race, tracing the timeline from the early days of what is recognizable as the …
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The ethics of animal experimentation: the Littlewood report
… on grounds that non-human animals are sentient, autonomous beings who express an acute interest in their continued existence and demonstrate an aversion to the frustration of their interests; as such, non-human animals can be considered moral subjects. The defenders of the rationalist …
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