Paul Kurtz, a philosopher whose advocacy of reason ahead of faith helped define contemporary secular humanism, died on Saturday at his home in Amherst, N.Y.
A good deal of contemporary atheism, humanism and materialism expresses only a truncated dualism and disillusioned heavenism, failing to provide alternative reshaping narratives of meaning, comfort and continuity for self and body.
Since Budé was the glory of contemporary French humanism and Bade was essentially a publisher, with no great intellectual or stylistic pretensions, this passage was taken to be a deliberate insult to Budé and even to French scholarship in general.
A beautiful, melancholy work that all but restores humanism to contemporary cinema.
He had his debut in a group show, Humanism in Contemporary British Sculpture, held at the Royal Festival Hall in 1985.
Putting moral weight on an individual's ability to govern herself, independent of her place in a metaphysical order or her role in social structures and political institutions is very much the product of the modernist humanism of which much contemporary moral and political philosophy is an offshoot.
"Girly" however, is how his stricter contemporaries, like Le Corbusier, saw this humanism.
Godzilla concentrates all the forces of contemporary pantheism, earth-worship, and anti-humanism that are by far the most powerful quasi-religious sentiment on campus.
Unlike historical terms such as 'the polis' or 'Christendom' that were familiar to the contemporaries of the realities so described, 'civic humanism' is a historiographical term like the 'Middle Ages' that emerged as a heuristic category in an ex post facto reconstruction of the past.
It was ahead of its time in its egalitarian humanism, and in its willingness to invoke contemporary politics.
