Sentences with phrase «scientific humanism»

Ideologies and superstitions, concentration - camp utopias and interplanetary folklore occupy the void left by the withdrawal of the Christian soul and scientific humanism, by the ebbing of Christian intellect and the elitist encystation of men (and women) of science in their special languages, waterproof compartments.

Since all of us are filled with admiration for the achievements of science and since all of us desire to practice and propagate such human virtues as friendliness, tolerance, good humor, sympathy and courage, we unconsciously assent to scientific humanism as a working philosophy of life.

The particular brand of scientific humanism which affects so much of our thinking is either agnostic, in the less narrow sense of that term, or rigidly atheistic.

The prevailing atmosphere among thinking men and women of good will today is one of what may loosely be termed «scientific humanism.»

Even if one of the traditional religious communities dominates the culture, it is now likely to be in competition with values stemming from the European Enlightenment — what I called scientific humanism.

Conservative Christians have complained, rightly, in my view, that this educational approach leads to the establishment of scientific humanism or something of that sort.

Some have identified Communism and scientific humanism as two such ways that compete with Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.

All of our religious traditions agree on this, and even scientific humanism and nationalism agree as well.

Even E. O. Wilson, the «father of sociobiology,» once wrote that he favors a «scientific humanism» — one that «imposes the heavy burden of individual choice that goes with intellectual freedom.»

Other brands of humanism, such as Enlightenment, scientific humanism, and the various political movements, have proved by contrast ephemeral.

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.

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

His real satirical spleen is reserved for the scientific humanism which, in his view, has permeated every pore of our national life, Our schools and churches, our social and governmental agencies — even the armed forces!

Far and away the funniest of Percy's satirical salvos against our deadening scientific humanism is found in Love in the Ruins.

Not exact matches

This leads to the negation of the earlier concepts of education as laid down in the Constitution of India which put priority to «promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people» and to the development of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform» in every citizen.

This shift largely came as a result of increased access to information (printing press), a new, more scientific view of the world, and the rise of humanism (which is to basically say that human beings had been given the faculties to «figure it all out» for themselves).

I prefer to hope that our moral anguish will prompt us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom, so that the present crisis can be truly a crisis in a biblical sense — a transformation which brings new faithfulness to God and a derivative humanism.

atheists are given a very significant role in this dialectical process in the evolution towards Panthrotheism, the belief that God give to humanity the privilige or responsibilty of charting human history.since you are not indoctrinated to specific dogma and doctrines, your open mindedness enables you percieve a deeper understanding of reality, simple logic but more profound scientific knowlege will lead you to God.religious humanism through science is your guiding spirit.

This whole article reeks of a modern day inquisition, except this time around, the church is the scientific and academic community and the religion is humanism.

Or have we fallen victim to the insidious encroachments of atheistic scientific thought and secular humanism?

The present Humanism, whether we call it scientific or existentialist, is only the natural and nal culmination of those principles of autonomy and nominalism in philosophy, which oversowed the New Learning.

A better alternative is scientific skepticism and humanism with a moral founding based in human solidarity and a systematic way to distinguish truth from fiction.

J.B.S. Haldane pointed out in The Philosophy of Humanism (1922) that Einstein's theory of relativity is a scientific and exact illustration of a much wider principle: all our knowledge is relative to the human mind that produced it.

The problem it presents is that of a conservative organization which has not kept abreast of the times, which has remained medieval while the world was growing modern, dogmatic while civilization was becoming scientific; which is individualistic in a collectivist period and theological in a time of humanism.

Scientific education is part of that heritage, fostering the «spiritual values of humanism» by teaching the habit of questioning arbitrary authority.

All religions (Christianity, Islam, Secular Humanism, Evolution, etc.) are all based on faith in things that can not be proven by the scientific method (e.g., God created the universe / where did God come from, we are all the end result of a lightning strike in an ancient mud puddle / where did energy and mass come from, etc..)

The difference between education understood only as training in technical skills within the ideology of the economic growth and education for promoting a technical society within the framework of a culture of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform», is indeed great.

For Whitehead himself comes to focus more on the problem of reconciling a «scientific» picture of nature dead, mechanical, devoid of quality, and the world of humanism that «science» dismisses as a wistful pathetic fallacy.

A humanism unleashed from its Judeo - Christian moorings — a scientific and behaviorist humanism — leads to beastliness.

Nehru once said, that he could not find any scientific reason for saying that human beings would succeed in realizing the goals of humanism.

For over 30 years GALHA, the LGBT Section of the BHA has promoted humanism as a rational, naturalistic worldview that trusts the scientific method as the most reliable route to truth and encourages a moral and ethical life based on logic, reason and compassion.

Humanism is the moral philosophy concerned with the reality available to us through reason and scientific inquiry.

It was expressed in Existentialist philosophy which rejected trust in reason, humanism, scientific and technological progress, and preached a tragic worldview, sense of loneliness and utmost attention to the inner world of the individual.

But it is the absence of a language in which to express humanism that can sometimes lead to «picking through the scientific evidence for cherries they can pick to support a pre-defined policy position.»

In addition, humanism (e.g., Carl Rogers) rejects the scientific method of using experiments to measure and control variables because it creates an artificial environment and has low ecological validity.