Sentence examples for statement of humanist from inspiring English sources

Ostensibly a defence of Erasmus and his philological approach to the biblical text, this offers an important statement of humanist ideals, highly critical of the artificial linguistic universe generated by scholastic dialectic and insistent on the priority of Greek, "since it is from Greek that the rest of mankind has received every variety of knowledge".

It represents the classical statement of the liberal humanist tradition in German political thought which, however, seems to have found a more appreciative readership in nineteenth century England (Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill), than in Humboldt's native Germany.

The result is 10 "non-commandments" — the authors' irreducible statements of atheist and humanist belief.

They celebrate "French values" instead of humanist ones.

Sickingen protected Martin Luther and harboured many Humanists and Reformers in his castles, which were, in the words of Humanist Ulrich von Hutten, "a refuge for righteousness".

Discusses the speakers of the debate; Mr. Irving Babbitt, the great Humanist leader; Mr. Henry Seidel Canby, another Humanist; and on the other side, Carl Van Doren, attacked decorum (view of Humanist) in a most undecorous way.

"A lot of humanist rhetoric of previous generations revolved around reason," he said.

There is an unfortunate history of humanist movements co-opting the forms of religion.

Labé was a member of the 16th-century Lyon school of humanist poets dominated by Maurice Scève.

John is most commonly described as a humanist although he exhibits only some of the many different aspects of humanist thought and outlook.

Todd is the symbol of humanist, irreligious power.