He borrowed from many examples, especially from the humanism of Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, the President of the First Czech Republic after the First World War, and from his friend Richard von Weizsäcker, the President of Germany.
She several times states that there are two branches of American secularism: one extending from the humanism and egalitarianism of Paine and the other from the cutthroat individualism of the social Darwinists and Ayn Rand.
Yet he has attained that place by reversing one of the fundamental developments from which humanism emerged.
His concerns may have developed because of the antisacramental tendencies prevalent in the Netherlands at that time, tendencies that developed from the humanism of Erasmus and the ethical concerns of the Brethren of the Common Life.
He was a frequent signatory of letters of protest to the Guardian and a name recruited to causes of which he approved, from secular humanism to the legalising of assisted suicide to the preservation of public libraries.
It is the part of Modernism not derived from the Humanism of the Greeks, the Magna Carta or the American Constitution.
Locke's curricular recommendations reflect the break from scholastic humanism and the emergence of a new kind of education—one emphasising not only science but also practical professional training.
Not his happily middle-class family life, though Liberal-Labour politics had filtered through from his father, and non-conformist piety (altered by him to humanism) from his mother.
Part of my work explores deep technocultural shifts, from post-humanism to the post-anthropocene, but TED's version has too much faith in technology, and not nearly enough commitment to technology.
