It's a useful corrective to this overweening narrative that the theme of this year's Humanist Week is "humanist heritage".
This contemporary social action, support and work for the common good is backed up by a long British humanist heritage and we should all – humanist and non-humanist – be proud of this important strand in our shared history.
Above and beyond the vicissitudes of the hour and the risks of history, above and beyond the measure of confusion inherent in today's fight, and above and beyond the eminent clarity of Bernard-Henri Lévy, our common membership in what he once called the "Levinas generation" impels us both to work to build an authentic European republic, one fraternal and confident in its humanist heritage.
The draft text refers to Europe's "cultural, religious and humanist heritages".
Aronofsky's bleak filmis a product of his secular humanist upbringing, not his Jewish heritage.
Free-thinkers across the country are coming together to support the secular heritage of the holiday, including the Humanists of North Puget Sound, the Greater Worcester Humanists and the Secular Humanist Society of New York.
"Of course, we have a Judeo-Christian past, but the constitution is inspired by a heritage that is cultural, religious and humanist all at once," Michel Barnier, France's new foreign minister, said after a news conference at the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
But the Italian humanists' rediscovery of the classical Greco-Roman cultural heritage during the Renaissance renewed interest in antique art and the collecting of it.
The party identifies itself in the preamble of its platform as a liberal (liberalistisk; "liberal, libertarian") party, built on Norwegian and Western traditions and cultural heritage, with a basis in a Christian understanding of life and humanist values.
From proponents of "responsible genetics" (Council for Responsible Genetics 1993) to defenders of our "genetic patrimony" as the "common heritage of all humanity" (Knoppers 1991), to the "anti-post-humanist" life cycle traditionalists, the prospect of "species altering experiments" which might "direct" human evolution is provoking resistance (Mehlman, 2012).
C. 1480 Helsingør, Denmark January 16, 1554 Helsingør, Denmark Christiern Pedersen, (born c. 1480, Helsingør, Den. died Jan . 16 1554, Helsingør) Danish humanist who was among the first to rediscover Denmark's national literary and historical heritage and to encourage the development of a vernacular style in Danish literature.
