Because of that, Fred Trotter of O'Reilly Radar warns, "We are outsourcing decisions to a virtual entity which has none of our humanist notions of fairness or a sense of fair play".
Oates calls herself a humanist, rejects the conventional notion of divinity and told me, "I don't have a sense that there are sacred institutions.
His humanist principles include the notion that religious groups "have no greater right than anybody else, any political party or Women's Institute or trade union".
Even a few years ago, the notion that an atheist or humanist club -- let alone one named after Satan -- would be allowed to meet at a public school would have caused a national outcry, and politicians would join in the chorus of condemnation.
Some, however, still harbour the notion of a black and white humanist photographer.
This seems to be a critical remark that opens up for a more inclusive notion of the subject of scholarly knowledge (the humanist undergoing change by undertaking a study), but both Kirby and Metzger would invite us to think twice.
The humanists were engaged in a revival of Classical learning and culture, and the notion of a thousand-year period of darkness and ignorance separating them from the ancient Greek and Roman world served to highlight the humanists' own work and ideals.
He also inherited from his humanist counterparts in the earlier part of the fifteenth century (men like Leonardo Bruni, 1370 1444) the notion that it was imperative to educate society's elites, the ingeniosi, or acute wits, as Michael Allen translated the term (see Allen 1998).
It demonstrates a humanist's obsession with the real-life implications of scientific concepts (Drabble's central conceit is the notion of mitochondrial DNA or matrilineal descent), and it is crammed with theories about everything from Lamarckian principles of evolution (which inspired the picturesque title and which Drabble gets wrong, but never mind) to early-20th-century child-rearing practices.
The most likely reason is to be located in the notion of sophia perennis, which played an important role in the thought of Florentine humanists.
