Humanist Sentence Examples

In this Italy, and especially the renowned school of Padua, took the first step, where Giovanni De Monte (Montanus), (1498-1552), already mentioned as a humanist, gave clinical lectures on the patients in the hospital of St Francis, which may still be read with interest.

But there the German humanist who perhaps approached most nearly the Italian type, furnishes a good illustration.

Zwingli was a humanist, a type abhorred of Luther; and he was far more ready for the polite Erasmian society of Basel than for a monastery.

Towards the end of September he fell a victim to the plague which was ravaging the land, and his illness sobered his spirit and brought into his message a deeper note than that merely moral and common-sense one with which, as a polite humanist, he had hitherto been content.

In the 15th century it was the seat of a celebrated academy, founded by the humanist Rodolphus Agricola, which contributed not a little to the revival of learning in this part of Germany; Erasmus of Rotterdam was one of its students.

During the 17th century a manuscript of the Liber was discovered in Rome by the humanist, Lucas Holstenius, who prepared an edition for publication; for politic reasons, however, the papal authorities would not allow this to appear, as the book asserted the superiority of a general council over the pope.

During this time he composed his greatest works, published almost certainly in 1159, the Policraticus, sive de nugis, curialium et de vestigiis philosophorum and the Ilietalogicus, writings invaluable as storehouses of information regarding the matter and form of scholastic education, and remarkable for their cultivated style and humanist tendency.

The appointment of these skilled humanist writers to the Chancery was a consequence of the difficult conditions of the time.

Not only did he love the studies of the humanist, but he himself was a Christian humanist.

Grotius read the classics as a humanist, for the sake of their contents, not as a professional scholar.

The father of Hebrew study among Christians was the humanist Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), the author of the Rudimenta Hebraica (Pforzheim, 1506), whose contest with the converted Jew Pfefferkorn and the Cologne obscurantists, established the claim of the new study to recognition by the Church.

Instinctively a humanist, he had little patience with the narrow curriculum of Harvard in his day and the rather pedantic spirit with which classical studies were there pursued.

The humanist Vives was brought from Italy to teach Latin, and the reader in theology was instructed to follow the Greek and Latin Fathers rather than the scholastic commentaries.

He attended none of the Humanist lectures, but he read a good many of the Latin authors and also learned a little Greek.

He had an unbounded admiration for Erasmus, with whom he entered into correspondence, and from whom he received a somewhat chilling patronage; whilst the brilliant humanist, Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), taught him to criticize, in a rationalizing way, the medieval doctrines of Rome.

He went up with the feelings of the medieval pilgrim rather than with the intoxication of the ardent Humanist.

The so-called Renaissance did much; but it did not do the things attributed to it by those who see the "middle ages" through humanist glasses.

His purpose was to defend what may be called a humanist position in moral philosophy; that is, to show that morality was not an affair of mysterious innate principles, or abstract relations, or supernatural sanctions, but depended on the familiar conditions of personal and social welfare.

The first-fruits of this new resolve were a quite gratuitous attack on his old friend, the distinguished humanist and jurist Ulrich Zasius (1461-1536), for a doctrine proclaimed ten years before, and a simultaneous assault on Erasmus's Annotationes in Novum Testamentum.

He now believed himself in a position to crush not only the Lutheran heretics, but also his humanist critics.

Very early, however, the author becomes serious in contrasting the early education of his hero - a satire on the degraded schools of the middle ages - with its subsequent and reformed stage, in the account of which all the best and noblest ideas of the humanist Renaissance in reference to pedagogy are put with exceptional force.

He was, it is clear, thoroughly penetrated with the instincts, the hopes, and the ideas of the Renaissance in the form which it took in France, in England and in Germany - a form, that is to say, not merely humanist but full of aspirations for social and political improvement, and above all for a joyous, varied, and non-ascetic life.

Inhuman as he could be in his wrath, in principle he was as much a humanist as any of his most enlightened contemporaries.

So far-reaching were the interests controlled by him in this capacity of humanist that his achievement as an Italian lyrist seems by comparison insignificant.

Up to the fourth class all pupils are taught alike in the lyceums; in the fifth, however, they are divided into a literary or " humanist " section, and a scientific or " realist " section.

Indirectly, through the dialectic of his pupil and friend Zeno and otherwise, the doctrine of the inadequacy of sensation led to the humanist movement, which for a time threatened to put an end to philosophical and scientific speculation.

Though no great scholar or writer, he was a powerful force in the England of his day, and helped materially to disintegrate the medieval conditions still obtaining, and to introduce the humanist movement.

In the humanist perspective, what does "collective worship" mean?

In fact this is the first book of humanist apologetics that I would not feel embarrassed to give to a friend to read.

The main elements of almost all ceremonies conducted by humanist celebrants are rehearsed in advance.

The Humanist Society of Scotland provides trained celebrants to conduct non-religious ceremonies, as alternatives to traditional funerals.

The General Registrar has allowed humanist celebrants to sanction a wedding ceremony, after a long campaign by the Humanist Organization.

The humanist movement itself has its roots in the Ethical Societies of the 19th century which grew out of Unitarian congregations.

There is no humanist creed, no set of beliefs to which every humanist has to subscribe.

A rather dissolute man, he had a more humanist than religious outlook.

This issue of the New Humanist examines a range of ethical enigmas.

In 1963 there was an abortive attempt to merge the then ethical Union with the RPA to form an umbrella British Humanist Association.

A humanist discussion of... IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND REFUGEES Humanist ethics Humanists seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs.

What is required for full information is an unbiased account of all the options available, including humanist and other non-religious options.

From an atheistic humanist 's point of view all these notions of God are myths.

These can be of either a religious, humanist or civil format.

What was the experience of young scholars with humanist leanings who found themselves on the eastern fringes of Latin Europe?

But beyond that, what can humanist morality do for our fellows.

These can be ceremony officiants, members of your local humanist group, or the Education Officer.

Satan would be an atheist, a humanist, who denies the trinity by simply not opposing them.

So how does the humanist mother go about producing reasonably well-balanced, well-educated, moral human beings, protected from irrelevant and oppressive myths?

In many respects, he is a manifestation of the classical, humanist, pagan worldview.

When Guillaume du Bellay went to Piedmont, Jean was put in charge of the negotiations with the German Protestants, principally through the humanist Johann Sturm and the historian Johann Sleidan.

As a supplement to these labours in the field of Platonic and Alexandrian philosophy, Marsilio next devoted his energies to the translation of Dionysius the Areopagite, whose work on the celestial hierarchy, though recognized as spurious by the Neapolitan humanist, Lorenzo Valla, had supreme attraction for the mystic and uncritical intellect of Ficino.

After the disruption of the league of Cambray, Maximilian, like Louis XII., was thrown into a violent anti-curial reaction, and in 1510 he sent to the well-known humanist, Joseph Wimpheling, a copy of the French Pragmatic Sanction, asking his advice and stating that he had determined to free Germany from the yoke of the Curia and prevent the great sums of money from going to Rome.

There he also made the acquaintance of Holstenius, the Dutch humanist, (1596-1661), aad Leo Allatius, the Greek scholar (1586-1669).

It is inverted, arrogant, perverted, risible, humanist thinking that imagines that it implies merit.

The reality is that in the modern world the main options for beliefs or values are Christian, Muslim or secular humanist.

There, between 1854 and 1856, one would have found the first self-styled humanist organization in Britain.

The humanist allegiance in these poems transcends national boundaries.

He is known for being a widely recognized humanist and internationalist, as well as an evolutionary biologist.

During her first swap Perrin traded homes with a New Age humanist from Massachusetts and made a name for herself by trying to convert her new family to Christianity.

That Douglas undertook this work and that he makes a plea for more accurate scholarship in the translation have been the basis of a prevalent notion that he is a Humanist in spirit and the first exponent of Renaissance doctrine in Scottish literature.

Even at this stage the vindictive or retributive character of punishment remains, but gradually, and specially after the humanist movement under thinkers like Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham, new theories begin to emerge.

Franck combined the humanist's passion for freedom with the mystic's devotion to the religion of the spirit.

His tutors were the learned Janos Vitez, bishop of Nagyvarad, whom he subsequently raised to the primacy, and the Polish humanist Gregory Sanocki.

Thomas of Sarzana was a distinguished humanist.

At the university of Greifswald he gained much distinction as a humanist, and in 1504 was appointed by the abbot of the Praemonstratensian monastery at Belbuck rector of the town school at Treptow.

He was an ardent humanist, was president.

In 1506 the distinguished humanist, Johann Reuchlin, who had begun the study of Hebrew under a.

At Poitiers he came in contact with the humanist Marc Antoine Muret, and with Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), a Latin poet famous in his day.

He was a humanist before the Renaissance, surpassing all other representatives of the school of Chartres in his knowledge of the Latin classics, as in the purity of his style, which was evidently moulded on that of Cicero.

He never was a member of the Humanist circle; he was too much in earnest about religious questions and of too practical a turn of mind.

The eloquence of the Italian humanist has bestowed a not entirely merited aureole on the memory of Jerome of Prague.

It not only sobered the humanist tendency to sacrifice truth for aesthetic effect, it called for the documents of the Church and subjected them to the most hostile criticism.

But when Luc d'Achery turned from exegetics to patristics and the lives of the saints, as a sort of Christian humanist, he led the way to that vast work of collection and comparison of texts which developed through Mabillon, Montfaucon, Ruinart, Martene, Bouquet and their associates, into the indispensable implements of modern historians.

In reasserting and amplifying the empirical conclusions of his predecessors, especially in the sphere of ethics, Mill's chief function was the introduction of the humanist element.