Sentences with phrase «understanding of the humanist»

A clear understanding of the humanist principle of functional ultimacy is critical because influential critics grossly misinterpret it or designate a different principle as humanism's operative norm.

If the GCSE syllabus does not help them to examine and deepen their understanding of humanist and other non-religious beliefs, it will be failing the majority of our young people.»

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@Rational Humanist / / «If they can't understand that their religion does not trump the rights of their workers and does not trump any government law...» =========================

I was refering to the ad campaign being a philosophical discussion, as it is targetted at exposing a wider range of the public to the beliefs of Humanists (at least as American Humanist Association understands them).

Nevertheless, it can hardly be doubted that the Humanist's understanding of religion ignores that feature in it which gives it its character.

Humanists should acknowledge their membership in the contemporary world, seek to understand it in its own terms (which means making a serious effort to gain authentic scientific insight), assimilate its ideas into their world of composing, building, and analyzing, and assume responsibility for guiding the course of its further development.

What secular humanists don't understand is even their world view of equal human rights are built on New Testament principles.

Therefore, it does not follow that one who is committed to a particular world view — Christian, Marxist, humanist or some other — must subject himself or herself only to some univocal understanding of a particular field of intellectual inquiry.

This is to say, then, that a Christian world view does not, except within the broadest limits, dictate any particular understanding of phenomena; indeed, it can properly be said that there is no such thing as a Christian approach to any field of inquiry — no Christian astronomy or anthropology, for example — just as there is no such thing as a Marxist, or a democratic humanist, approach to phenomenological inquiry.

For example, modern artists have found themselves challenged by primitive man at the common level of the use of symbols; a modern humanist could be influenced by, say, the historical Socrates, because of a common devotion to a certain understanding of the meaning and significance of truth; and so on.

The Humanist Funeral Tribute Archive provides a wealth of understanding of remembrance and memorialisation, and how it changes.

All the usual contemporary justifications for the subject of RE in the school curriculum — its contribution to social cohesion and mutual understanding, its presentation of a range of answers to questions of meaning and purpose, and its role in the search for personal identity and values — can best be served by including humanist perspectives and non-religious students.

Other dating sites are full of nice people who don't understand the atheist / humanist perspective.

Wilson writes, «The works amount to an ethical disturbance in which the involvement of intelligent, amoral actors complicates a humanist legacy that understands the world as having been given for our needs and created in our image.