Sentence examples for modern humanist from inspiring English sources

Buried in the work of the great framer of capitalism as a vast impersonal system, there is a modern humanist.

Much of Vonnegut's work is marked by an essentially fatalistic worldview that nonetheless embraces modern humanist beliefs.

Born in 1899, the identical twin Soyer brothers had long and distinguished parallel careers as modern humanist painters.

A philosopher and academic, Harry was influential in developing modern humanist thought, especially in matters of education about values and beliefs.

In his De immensa Dei misericordia (1524) he had already attacked contemporary philosophers for neglecting the teaching of Christ in the Gospel and preferring to heed "your Platos and Aristotles" (CWE 70 123), a remark that may have been intended as a blow against modern humanist Neoplatonists as well as against the scholastic thinkers for whom Aristotle long had been "the Philosopher".

The first English king with a modern humanist education, he read and wrote English, French, Latin and was thoroughly at home in his well-stocked library.

We might also remember the ways in which Mill's convictions about the worth and dignity of human life – vital principles for modern humanists – stimulated him in social action, opposition to slavery, and a commendably anachronistic appetite for gender equality.

The job of modern humanists is to do consciously what Conan Doyle did instinctively - to make the thrill of the ameliorative, the joy of small reliefs, of the case solved and mystery dissipated and the worry ended, for now.

In Rotterdam not long after, a Catholic theologian laid the groundwork for modern secularism (New Humanist).

Expect, but do not accept the confusion, anger and low levels of respect from the media, some scientists, liberal theologians and modern-humanists.

In a manner that might seem paradoxical to more-modern minds, humanists associated Classicism with the future.