Christians make better humanists.
Despite Descartes' best efforts, this humanist foundation has eroded.
His reading in classical philosophy – the Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics – encouraged him to brood on mortality and he had endured the recent deaths of his best friend (the humanist writer La Boétie), his father, younger brother and first-born child.
Between 1473 and 1478 he produced Latin and Greek verses that are among the best examples of humanist poetry: they include elegies, odes, and epigrams (of particular merit are the elegies In violas ["In Violets"] and In Lalagen and the ode In puellam suam ["In Regard to One's Daughters"]).
In The Times on Oct. 12, 1975, William Phillips, also an editor of the Partisan Review, hailed Dr. Heller's "Franz Kafka," published by Viking in 1974, as "in the best scholarly and humanist tradition" and "one of the more enlightened Kafka studies of recent years". Many of the professor's dozen-odd books were published in both English and German.
His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of Naples which Pontano led for several decades.
Otherwise, the works merely veer among expensive spectacle, "I get it" simplicity and kitsch, repeatedly proving that the best of political and humanist intentions — carefully spelled out in the news release — cannot guarantee aesthetic success.
What historians and other humanists do best is tell stories, Mr. Shryock said.
Its author is John Gray, who is now better known for his best-selling anti-humanist tracts.
The best candidate is the secular humanist, the liberal individualist, or the Enlightened Founding Father (until the last of these gets baptized into "born-again" status).
