Word: humanisme
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"The second danger is ... the danger of humanism. We have been endlessly speaking of human rights, as though there was nothing except man in the universe, as though he was the center of existence ... It is very well to speak of human rights, but may it not be that these...
Jones describes his new style as a reaction against "the preoccupation with light and shade that has victimized Western art since the Renaissance." His goal is to create "space, not objects." "I'm not interested in the humanism of the subject. I'm interested in the humanism of...
¶Language students at Columbia University this year will have their choice of three new tongue-twisters. In addition to such old favorites as Syriac (ancient Mesopotamia), Samoyed (Siberia) and Akkadian (ancient Babylon), Columbia is adding Avestan, the language of Zoroaster; Kurdish, spoken by the wandering Kurds of Turkey, Iraq...
Here in the world of Law School, it is easy to forget that the shopworn cliches of discredited humanism are still being bandied about such places as Eliot House. Thus, that anything so unimportant, so innocuous, so inefficacious for good or evil as the appointment of a University Chaplain should...
Santayana passes in review all his favorite ideas-materialism, naturalism, humanism, relativism. Then he dismisses each of them by saying that "chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." This verdict does not land Santayana in the camp of the simon-pure pessimists. Nature, he insists, does trace out repetitive...