Sentence examples for on humanism from inspiring English sources

African morality is founded on humanism, the doctrine that considers human interests and welfare as basic to the thought and action of the people.

His previous non-fiction books were Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era (1998) on the impacts of technological advances on humanism, The Secular Grail: Paradigms of Perception (1993) regarding the human psyche, and The Immaculate Perception (1986) on his views of consciousness, language and dreams.

Text long on clinical details, short on humanism.

John Gray's "Silence of Animals" is an attack on humanism.

Perhaps the consummate statement of Heidegger's later philosophy is the "Letter on Humanism" (1946).

"The Communists fought the Nazis with an ideology based on humanism, hoping that they could bring about a more just and fair society.

What marks these movies is the palpable presence of classic industrial methods and their relationship to the movies in question, whether the traditions (literary, cinematic, and intimate) on which "Golden Exits" runs, the physically tough world of "Beach Rats," or the bittersweet hands-on humanism of "Person to Person".

The Russian president signed the decree – which pardoned Khodorkovsky on the basis of "the principles of humanism" – on Friday morning.

While identifying professionalism, compassion and patient-centered behavior was once an "I-know-it-when-I-see-it endeavor," he said, "deans and faculty can now weigh actual indicators of humanism on evaluations".

He calls instead for "a far-sighted humanism based on human wretchedness" that would not "have saved us from wars, revolutions and cataclysms – these have never been found wanting … but it would certainly have saved us from wars on a national scale, revolutions on a world scale, from mechanized barbarism, from gas and germ warfare – and from racism".

But in no way does it try to evade the trajectory in the director's films from a concern with God to a humanism focused exclusively on human love and on art as the only stays against death.