Humanism : Humanist
Humanism is a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values, stressing an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason and other human skills. It usually rejects supernaturalism, but some religious people consider themselves humanists.See Secular Humanism, Religious (Spiritual) Humanism, New Humanism, Transhumanism
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the positive effect of his work. There is a saying that the true
question of good taste is involved precisely in such jealous
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often such background is marred by grotesque, natural, or
cool, pearl-grey, quiet place, where colour tells for double--the
red coral--one is reminded that among all classical writers Raphael's
[61] clean and sweet the flesh, the vesture, the floor, the earth and
an unmistakeable pledge of strength, of movement and animation in the
Raphael has given him a staff of transparent crystal. Keep then to
he has here already achieved, full, we may think, of the quiet
scholar; he seems still to be saying, before all things, from first
Oxford, 2 August, 1892. Published in the Fortnightly Review, Oct.
of a question, upon which neither Scripture, nor Council, nor Pope,
left to man by the overpowering work of divine grace upon him--had
sects. In the diocese of Paris, however, the controversy narrowed
the religious community of Port-Royal, and might have been forgotten
made more than a new step. It became at once, as if by a new
expressiveness.
In 1656 Pascal, then thirty-three years old, under the form of
of [63] pamphlets in which all that was vulnerable in the Jesuit
moment the quarrel turned on the proposed censure of Antoine Arnauld
Pascal, intimate, like many another fine intellect of the day, with
ardour of his genius, at least as he was then, to be a very active
took up the sword, and showed himself a master of the art of fence
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