Sentence examples for a humanism that from inspiring English sources

For me, that character was always a transfigured version of my father's childhood story: the embodiment of a humanism that couldn't be broken.

His narrative is smart and funny and, like the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks, it's informed by a humanism that enables its author to place the mysteries of the brain within a larger philosophical and cultural context.

Guterson's previous do-the-right-thing morality is happily set aside in favor of a humanism that allows his people to lust, to be funny, to fail, to hurt one another.

Moreover, many of those in the forefront of progressive political change, who have abandoned religion, have been driven by a humanism that has been essentially built up by our Christian heritage as Charles Taylor has recently brought out in his magisterial study, A Secular Age.

This "eccentric, accomplished" novel, by the author of "Snow Falling on Cedars," features a cast of "witty, self-regarding tough misanthropes" and "a humanism that allows... people to lust, to be funny, to fail, to hurt one another," Claire Dederer wrote in the Book Review in 2003.

In other words, the choice with which Jacobi confronted his readers at the opening of his new edition of the Spinoza Letters was not between two conceptually valid yet contradictory claims, but between the anti-humanism of the philosophers — based at it was on an abstraction — and a humanism that on the contrary stays close to the facts of experience.

In order for secularism to have a wide appeal, he writes, it will need to become a secular humanism that is more than "blunt denial" but is as attuned to human need as religion has been, and as responsive to social injustice as the teachings of Jesus or Muhammad.

Drawing from a popular humanism that could not recognise itself as a "white" perspective, some women would insist that they did not care whether someone were "green, striped or purple," because we are all "human".

Both authors advocate a simple humanism that stresses the basic similarities in the ways people behave and a form of multiculturalism grounded in the rights of the individual rather than those of groups.

Roth's concluding flourish evokes a liberal humanism that both arises from modern American Judaism and blurs its tenets.

The movie is a Wagnerian puppet show, the infusion of cardboard science-fiction apocalypses of the nineteen-fifties with both a grand mythological dimension and a post-sixties humanism that's reflected in its vast depth of backstory.