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dynamis (dī′·n  ·mis),n word coined by Hahnemann to describe an organism's life force (i.e., prana, ch'i, etc.) See also bioenergetics, dynamisation, life force, potency, potency energy, vital force, and Wesen. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These beliefs of ours are dynamite (from dynamis, power) but we must be willing, as Catholic Worker cofounder Peter Maurin put it, "to blow up some of the dynamite of the church. Teaching rhetoric's broad-band culture of persuasion has since Aristotle's time focused on rhetorical techne's interest in perfecting a distinctively human capacity--what he considered an in-born dynamis, faculty, or power of "observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" (Aristotle, 1. The enormous power of this fundamental principle, the dynamis that light unleashes, seems for a moment, for a flash, to be captured in the other two works in the exhibition, taken from the 2002 "Burning" series. |
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