8 sentences with 'humanist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word humanist and other words derived from it.
• « The basic humanist attitude is that if there are gods, they do not seem to be particularly interested in what humans do or say, so it is better to focus simply on the tangible world of human life. »
• « Although men had dominated these debates from the beginning, women educated in the humanist tradition joined the fray in earnest during the Renaissance, arguing both that education was the key to raising women's competence and that women shared precisely the same spiritual and moral nature as men. »
• « And, just as Petrarch "invented" the main themes of Renaissance thought by imitating and defending classical humanist thought, a Florentine artist, architect and engineer named Filippo Brunelleschi "invented" Renaissance art by imitating the classical world. »
• « Renaissance art and scholarship was hugely influential. Although the process took many decades, both humanist scholarship and education on the one hand, and classically inspired art and architecture on the other, spread beyond Italy throughout the 15th century. »
• « Royal governments also turned to officials from the towns and cities, men whose education resembled that of the humanist schools and tutors in Italy. »
• « The Jesuits raised young men, often nobles or wealthy members of the non-noble classes, with an excellent humanist education and a fierce devotion to the Church. »
• « The Scientific Revolution grew out of Renaissance humanism. By the end of the 16th century, humanist scholars were increasingly dissatisfied with some ancient authors, as these authors did not explain everything. »
• « This hope for a new beginning was not limited to the Soviet Union itself. In October 1956, a reformist faction of the Hungarian Communist Party inspired a mass uprising that called not only for a reformed and more humanist communism, but for the complete expulsion of Soviet forces and "advisors". »