Sentences with phrase «humanist traditions»

The 1MM (and the growth formula which it implements) expresses central, interdependent emphases in Jewish and Christian theology — and in other religious and humanist traditions, of course — the emphases on love, freedom, responsibility, and justice.

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

A lengthy quotation from Ms Furedi begins: «For those of us who emerged from a progressive humanist tradition, «rights» designates the requirements for participation in bourgeois, democratic society.»

There are more mechanically satisfying problems, for example the notion of morals built from nothing which Polly Toynbee and others have resolved in the humanist tradition and whose best expression is George Elliot but the Promethean in every intellectual is what heats the crucible I suspect.

John Stuart Mill is a prominent figure in the humanist tradition and his essay, On Liberty, is pivotal in thinking about the political values that underpin the humanist vision of an open society.

He then described the humanist tradition as «a loose network of individuals broadly exercised by questions of the spirit, concerned to optimise the sum total of human happiness here on earth; individuals naturally respectful of others, wedded to rationalism and to scientific rigour, revering all life, unafraid to proclaim and to celebrate the joy of existence and the richness of human expression.»

1968 The Humanist Tradition in Contemporary Painting, New School for Social Research, New York, NY Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York

Marcus Jansen belongs to this humane, humanist tradition.

In the milieu of the dominance of Abstract Expressionism beginning in the 1950s, which actively rebelled against identifiable «meaning,» Sharrow remained grounded in a humanist tradition and a social context.

His paintings came out of a humanist tradition, and Rembrandt was revered above all.

Henry Moore, English sculptor whose organically shaped, abstract, bronze and stone figures constitute the major 20th - century manifestation of the humanist tradition in sculpture.

Not exact matches

Against those who hold humanity in contempt, I, too, want to declare myself a humanist and join in the most elevated and elevating tradition of a culture that celebrates man as «the crown of creation.»

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

In this regard, these traditions have more in common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alone.

It is noteworthy that the humanist turns to the language of the religious tradition to express this conclusion.

We can recognize that the humanist and individualist moral traditions are also necessary to public life.

April 14, 2012 at 10:30 am God has a long held tradition for all us humanists who do and whomever doesn't believe in Godly reconciliations!

Fundamentalists say that a small cabal of secular humanists screens out the tradition's symbols.

The three themes emphasized in the college tradition from the foundation are: modern medical technology, the humanist culture of service and justice to the community of the poor and the needy, and religion as the source of the humanist culture.

The fact that the Christian passion for humanity may resemble other forms of humanism which appear to owe nothing to specific Christian origin or inspiration, and that humanists outside the Christian tradition can make a common commitment with Christians to enlarge and enhance the human and humane, does not mean that these individuals» differing sources of humanism are to be treated deprecatingly or indifferently; Christians will see in those sources evidence of the radical freedom and the unpredictable activity of the Logos, to which the Fourth Gospel first gave witness.

A German humanist, if he must produce something in his own language ought to look to native literary traditions.

The Kid With a Bike Year: 2011 Directors: Jean - Pierre Dardennes, Luc Dardenne As portrait of a young boy's resilience and of compassion shown by one human being towards another, The Kid with a Bike is part of the grand tradition of humanist realism.

Resource includes: - Nature and purpose of marriage - Humanist attitudes to marriage - Christian attitudes to marriage - Christian wedding ceremonies (and features)- Marriage outside of religious traditions - Problems faced by inter-faith marriage Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.

These can be read in distinct but overlapping registers, evoking at once the raw internal spaces of the body and the psyche, the humanist and realist painterly tradition of Rembrandt, Soutine and Bacon, and the wider cultural reality of social and political upheaval, violence and trauma.

This full acceptance, or what in the humanist therapy tradition is called the unconditional positive regard is incredibly powerful for fuelling your child's self image and self actualization.