Sentences with phrase «humanist vision»

Spanning pure abstraction and poetic figuration, Smith's deeply humanist vision has inspired generations of sculptors for over 50 years since his death.

The sculptor of stilled and silent bodies places his Cyberman - style statues in the sea off two south coast towns in an attempt to colonise yet more of the landscape for his humanist vision.

Ko's is a humanist vision amidst a world that has become foreign to its inhabitants as creators, but as Einstein famously said, «In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.»

If the political despair of post-Second World War and McCarthy - era artists, such as de Kooning, Passloff, and Resnick, generated an inward looking, psychologically inflected humanist vision, the post-Vietnam generation had seen the groundbreaking gains and political optimism of the civil rights, feminist, indigenous, and gay rights movements.

Manister's artistic worldview and method is underpinned by the humanist vision of the older generation, but his commitment to forging an individual practice is not hampered by the same kind of high - seriousness and obdurate self - belief often found with other painters working «after the fall.»

Yet, by virtue of the heartfelt strength of Demme's humanist vision, the déjà vu his new film often evokes isn't as much of a drawback as it could have been.

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.

The Foundations then, is as Hegelian as the Manuscripts and in the light of that it is impossible to maintain that only Marx's early writings are of philosophical interest and that he lost the humanist vision in the later writings.

Markos argues that this Christian humanist vision that God's revelation answers our highest aspirations has suffered since the Puritans portrayed heaven as an escape from earth rather than as the redemption of creation.

Except in lonely outposts of faith — the crippled child Lonnie in The Moviegoer, the fierce nun Val in The Last Gentleman, the firewatching Father Smith with his remnant of faithful Catholics in Love in the Ruins — the old Christian humanist vision is dead.

It was, moreover, a Christian humanist vision which enabled him to reconcile his old science with his new faith and to reappropriate his Uncle Will's humanism in a religious framework.

It is also an occasion, amid our fierce cultural crisis over the evils and benefits of humanism, to make a theological assessment of Cheever's unapologetically humanist vision.

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This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

Channelling the spirit of John Lennon's «Imagine», he describes a utopian vision of the future in which the «depth and warmth» of his own secular - humanist philosophy is universally embraced at the expense of God.

This is the line of Isocrates, Cicero, Isidore, the artes liberales of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance humanists, the vision of Matthew Arnold, of some teachers of the liberal arts today, especially humanities teachers and, of course, many religious colleges.

Secondly, Norman Cousins has recently proposed that some foundation establish a Commission on the World's Future made up of eminent scientists and humanists with moral vision who would devote themselves to thinking about the problem of survival and fulfillment in the future.

She explained that humanists share the vision which underlies the principles of the UN, which is that of «a world where everyone lives cooperatively on the basis of shared human values, respect for human rights, and concern for future generations».

Even though expressionist music denies the individual identity of it's characters or performers, rather that they appear as humanist subjects, the similarities between the two women are indeed striking and has served as an inspiration for the set design and my artistic vision for this opera.