Sentence examples for humanist conception from inspiring English sources

This, too, is a deeply humanist conception of death.

The humanist conception of Mary gained further traction in the Renaissance: she is less empress of heaven, more mother sewing, nursing and playing with the infant Jesus.

Its emphasis on the dual importance of moral and intellectual training was very appealing to the 15th and 16th centuries' humanist conception of education.

Titmuss' arguments against the use of incentives in blood donation had deep roots in his humanist conception of social policy as a tool for human progress that should be protected from what he considered to be exploitative economic interests.

Although relational strategies spring from purpose- and meaningful activity, prolonged sedimentation thus seem to make them manifest with a degree of automaticity and stubbornness that challenges our conventional, humanist conceptions of agency and intentionality: Sometimes our habitual use of technologies inclines us do things we do not intend to do.

Nicolas of Cusa's De Pace Fidei (1453) marks an important step towards a more comprehensive, Christian-humanist conception of toleration, though in the conversations among representatives of different faiths his core idea of "one religion in various rites" remains a Catholic one.

If you studied the humanities in the 80s or even 90s you might still have been educated by generations formed by the discourse of the crisis of man: the "theory wars" then coming to a close had been fought not between radical new anti-humanists and some timeless conception of man, but between representatives of the middle and the close of the 20th century.

Against this he advocates a "positive" theology founded on study of the Scriptures and the Church Fathers; it is a typically humanist return to the sources, and it fits with More's conception of the church as a community embedded in history and process.

Now according to the civic humanist reading of the tradition, the classical republicans were committed to a perfectionist conception of the human good as active citizenship and civic virtue.

In particular, Rorty finds in Dewey an anticipation of his own view of philosophy as the hand-maiden of a humanist politics, of a non-ontological view of the virtues of inquiry, of a holistic conception of human intellectual life, and of an anti-essentialist, historicist conception of philosophical thought.

Given the rhetorical prominence of liberty in the classical republican writings, it follows from their holding a negative conception of freedom that they cannot have been advancing a perfectionist political philosophy, as the civic humanists claim.