Sentence examples for humanist inheritance from inspiring English sources
The compromise reference is to Europe's "cultural, religious and humanist inheritance'.' Mr Giscard d'Estaing also said he is in favour of a referendum which some countries will have.
In its present form, it states that the European Union draws "inspiration from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe".
The preamble of the current draft treaty, drawn up by the former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's convention, refers only to the "cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe".
When the European Union's constitutional treaty was being negotiated, there were hard arguments over whether to mention Christianity or God; in the end, a reference was made to the "cultural, religious and humanist inheritance" of Europe.
The religious question resurfaced again with the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon, which skipped any reference to Christianity and instead paid tribute to the "cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe".
The Preamble of the European Constitution (2004) begins by stating that it draws inspiration "from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe, from which have developed the universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, democracy, equality, freedom and the rule of law".
The ancient world looks as if it is populated by people "just like us", not least because it is the great minds of the classical world – Virgil, Homer, Plato, Cicero and the rest – who have informed so much of our intellectual inheritance, from the humanists onwards.
Eileen Regan, a Humanist celebrant, officiated.
