Sentence examples for individual humanist from inspiring English sources

He was not a secular individual humanist.

It more or less works for De Rerum Natura, which was indeed "lost" (or at least not often recopied between the 13th and 15th centuries) and then found on a particular day by an individual humanist.

Individual humanists have been in the forefront of life-improving developments in British science, politics, social policy, and charity in Britain.

Regardless of individual differences, humanists of all stripes recognize that we need to work together to make things better, because no higher power is going to do that for us.

"Having done so, in my view it should provide equal recognition to individuals who hold humanist beliefs on the basis of my findings that humanism does meet the test of a belief body and that a wedding ceremony conducted by a humanist constitutes a manifestation of that belief". Ms Lacole welcomed the ruling, which could now be used by others seeking the same status.

It would operate on two broad principles: that government should be rigorously neutral in matters of religion and that a humanist ethic of individual freedom underlies basic American values.

A new movement of interfaith cooperation is growing that values the uniqueness of individual traditions (increasingly including secular-humanist), while believing that people can and must respect one another across differences of belief.

The life sciences are undermining the individualism so celebrated by the humanist tradition with research suggesting that "the free individual is just a fictional tale concocted by an assembly of biochemical algorithms".

One of the most striking things in the past 25 years, he has noticed, is the cheapening of the value of individual human life, "which certainly a humanist tradition would value very highly.

Humanist discourse focused on individuals and depicted present-day technologies (chiefly alarms and monitoring devices) as potentially disruptive (stigmatising and unwelcome in the home), distantiating (separating people from their families and carers) and disempowering (surveillance as control), and as offering at best a partial solution to the age-related decline of the human body and mind.

In truth, Augustine did more than any other individual to institutionalize Christianity's fundamentally anti-humanist theological creed -- a detour around Christ's teachings that the church already had taken.