Sentences with phrase «about humanism»

Opie spoke with Juliet Helmke of Modern Painters about the humanism in each.

There's a dialogue taking place about the humanism of art and how important connectivity is in our lives.

Where nobody on the faculty has ever spent ten minutes in the freshman dorm, but everybody talks about humanism and compassion.

The Humanism for Schools website is a resource which contains teaching materials about Humanism and humanist perspectives on moral issues and approaches to learning about the world.

The signatories include philosophers and RE professors, consultants, advisors and teachers, including professors from Britain's top universities, leading national voices on RE, and classroom teachers already teaching their pupils about humanism and objecting to its exclusion in the draft criteria:

Niloy's death marks an escalation in the violence as confident killers conned their way into his home to brutalise and behead him for speaking out about religious extremism and writing about Humanism.

Secular humanism «is» a philosophical viewpoint that encompasses such things as morality and your statement would be on only slightly less shaky ground if you had said that about humanism.

name ONE thing bad about Humanism.

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Humanism, however, in whatever guise it presents itself, is about the sovereignty of humanity and its imagined needs, and not about the demands of God at all.

As such, it seems to me that it would take about as much faith to believe in Humanism as it does to believe in a spirit world.

Nowhere is Cheever's restrained but vigorous humanism more characteristically at work than in «The Fourth Alarm,» a late story about a man whose wife, Bertha, has undergone a modish liberation from the antique proprieties and conventions.

Whatever the league tables might look like, faith - based education clearly isn't all about results, and has something to offer that secular humanism does not.

Louis Bouyer, himself one of the great Christian humanists of our own age, wrote in 1959 a book about Erasmus and his times that remains as good an introduction to later Christian humanism as any I know; another good introduction is the book by Henri de Lubac about the times of Pico della Mirandola.

The tale he relates about Saint Dimitri could serve as the paradigm for Camus» own humanism:

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

What many folks seem to encourage jovially are rival bickering between young blooded humanists who banter about incessantly never judging their owned amorous infidelities and always trivializing the bitterness of others» written and even oral wordage... «I am what I am Sam» are the earmarks of standalone infidels who dare not seek the fidelities of devotional humanisms flavored austerities emanating with frugal discourse above the plainness of written and / or spoken dysenteries... «Bite the bullet» antagonists on both young sides might never find frugally endorsed concessions nor open their doors ever so gently...

An atheist of the secular humanism vein and an atheist of the Objectivist vein are about as similar as a bicycle and an octopus.

We can compare Christian beliefs about man, the world, God, origin, and destiny with those of scientific humanism and Marxism as well as with those of Buddhism and Confucianism.

The well - known advocate of atheistic humanism, Corliss Lamont, was quick to argue that Whitehead's use of «God» in «nonsupernaturalistic ways» was both deceptive and incomprehensible.4 And Max Otto raged at the audacity of Whitehead's attempt to do metaphysics at a time when «the millions» are concerned about human suffering and need a restructuring of society.5

Secular humanism is about promoting humanity as a group.

Although, as we noted, naturalism and humanism tend to think of sin as an outmoded concept and talk instead about maladjustment, insecurity, neurosis, or antisocial conduct, the term remains in the diction of Christians.

They may tell us that in dealing with such phenomena as «religiosity» or «humanism» it is irrelevant and out of order to inquire about the «something» that lies behind them, and thereby protest against the conclusion that the only answer to all ultimate questions is the Nihil.

Just as a «reductive humanism» results from not interpreting and valuing the human as part of a larger interdependent whole, so also speculations about a cosmic whole impoverish its richness and value.

Further, a question - begging definition that equates religion and theism, along with widespread misunderstanding about the normative principle of humanism, continues to camouflage a basic similarity between humanism and expanding varieties of contemporary theism.

Every discussion about the «point of contact», about the historical and supra - historical elements in Christianity, about apotheosis and incarnation, has always revolved around this relation between Christianity and classical humanism.

Usually one finds among all four humanisms greater moral sensitivity about problems of justice and peace, about reconciliation between races and nations, than one finds in the Moral Majority.

To see how far down the path to secular humanism the University of Notre Dame has already traveled, one need only read the official statements made about the University by its administrators.

However, having read the article, its all about loving your neighbour and caring for the poor — these are values found not only in many religions, but is part of secular humanism too.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

The Christian contribution in this context should be in relation to the struggle of India to develop, through dialogue among the many religions, cultures and philosophies, a body of common insights about being and becoming human, that is, a common framework of humanism which will humanize the spirit of modernity and the process of modernization.

It is in relation to the ensuing dialogue about a genuine Indian Humanism that does justice to the mechanical, organic and spiritual dimensions of humanness and social history, that a Christian contribution to Indian philosophy acquires importance.

This «flawed humanism,» as Sennett and Cobb call it, provides a perverse justification of the inequities of the class system, and confirms those on the bottom or middle or even uppermost rungs in their anxiety about their lives.

If you find yourself in conflict with someone like that, just imagine what the opposition is all about: secular laws vs religious laws, and racism vs humanism, to name but two of the many battlefields to be found here.

Some of these theologians, and others as well, believe that Christian theology is most relevantly compared with doctrines about the meaning of life that are usually called secular, such as communism, fascism, romantic naturalism, and rationalistic humanism.

Read more about Humanists UK's campaigns work on assisted dying: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/public-ethical-issues/assisted-dying/ At Humanists UK, we advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.

Finally, the BHA is supporting this campaign because Humanism is about shared actions.

However they have also shown the same thing about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism, the teaching of which stands in more urgent need of well - funded academic research by virtue of their more recent arrival on the curriculum.»

Recent years have seen a large rise in the number of humanists who are on SACREs, as documents such as the 2013 national framework, programmes of study and RE guidance have referred to teaching about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism.

This followed the publication of a new curriculum framework for RE last year, endorsed by the Secretary of State for Education, which included non-religious worldviews on an equal footing to each of the principal religions, as well as the issuing of Departmental advice recommending that schools meet the new requirement to promote British values by teaching about «beliefs such as... humanism» as well as religions.

The movie gets off to a somewhat sluggish start, at a party scene that's overstuffed with arch dialogue and almost as many pop - culture allusions as a Seth MacFarlane show, but the underlying humanism in Baumbach's worldview ultimately wins out, and we actually come to care about this quippy group of chums and their endlessly referential, often very amusing conversations.

Imbued with élan and humanism from beginning to end, Mud is very much a film about the limitless (often agonizing) power of love — and the great lengths many of us go to find it, obtain it, and ultimately, keep it.

It's an unashamedly political picture but relaying its message — about the rotten lot of women in the country — through the personal and the specific, with a humanism that refuses to demonize difficult characters like Wadjda's father (Sultan Al Assaf) or the stern headmistress Ms. Hussa (Ahd).

Asked to be the straight man to a running joke about the essential «fakeness» of its world - weary hipster heroes, Amber instead assumes the position of power by announcing that for all the things they — and we, by extension — have seen, she alone will emerge from this with no sense of irony or mordant humanism.

Don't let the inscrutable title put you off: Destin Daniel Cretton's film about a home for at - risk teens is, as I argued at the time, «a genuine stunner, a work of ardent, life - affirming humanism.»

Yet there's little that's sadistic about Szász's humanism, which understands that true acts of insight happen through messier, more elusive presentations.

The lead story is a beautifully written and heartbreaking piece about the precarious situation an Afghani school firmly rooted in humanism finds itself in as U.S. military forces leave.

No matter how, it is important to think about the relationship of polluted nature to the proliferation of electronics... the decomposition of humanity (humanism) and the old and traditional hierarchy of values.

To underscore the humanism and social advocacy that underlie Gordon Parks» best work and acknowledge his participation in a tradition of African American artmaking, Marshall will talk about his own work and its sources in the shared legacy — cultural as well as artistic.

They are artists who used geometric abstraction to talk about experience, humanism, and difference.

During our visit we talked about his Dedalus Foundation exhibition, «The Humanism of Abstraction,» which also includes work by David Reed and Carrie Moyer.