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.
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).
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.
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 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.»
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.
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.