Word: nonhuman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a rather unclear and not very dignified relation to technology. We put hope in the machine and then get frustrated when it deceives us. How the artist in particular looks upon technology is very important-because it is the freest, the most human way of looking at a nonhuman object. Perhaps the artist will show us the way to a better relationship...
...strongly the opinion that Paul Tillich and religious liberals like him were traitors in the theological camp because they were trying to humanize something that is essentially nonhuman. They were trying to make Christianity less than a scandal, as Kierkegaard called it. Well, it is a scandal; it's obviously a scandal because our life is a scandal...
...MIND OF THE DOLPHIN: A NONHUMAN INTELLIGENCE by John Cunningham Lilly, M.D. 310 pages. Doubleday...
...anthropomorphic as "ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, esp. to a deity." Webster's repetitiously expands this to "described or conceived in a human form or with human attributes: represented with human characteristics or under a human form: ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things: crudely human or man-centered in character...
...honored position in man's direct ancestry. He was sure that Zinjanthropus was a toolmaker because crude stone tools were found near his remains. Many anthropologists disagreed with both these conclusions, and now Dr. Leakey has changed his mind. He now believes that Zinjanthropus was an Australopithecine, a nonhuman vegetarian of low intelligence and not a toolmaker...