Through this framework, he shows how humanism today can offer something of the ceremony and symbolic depth of traditional ...

Explore the connection between atheism and humanism, the suppression of humanist principles by the church, and the importance of separating church and state.

A tribute to Renaissance art on Christmas Day celebrates the rebirth of light, beauty, and human dignity. Just as Christmas symbolizes birth and hope, the Renaissance represents a new cultural and ...

The Renaissance is often considered a time of triumph for self-made individuals. One orphanage revealed the era’s darker side ...

SIR Muhammad Iqbal’s entire philosophical corpus underpins an ardent striving for humanism to build a better society. Iqbal steadfastly believes in human potential and supports a humane approach ...

“Man was now capable of penetrating and reflecting nature’s secrets, in art as well as science, with unparalleled mathematical sophistication, empirical precision, and numinous aesthetic power. He had ...

Lorenzo de' Medici, also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, stands as one of the most prominent figures in the history of Florence and the Italian Renaissance, and the foremost member of the powerful ...

The rule of the Medici family in Renaissance-era Florence led to an explosion of scientific progress and the rise of humanism. This Galileo and science in Renaissance Florence tour, led by a social or ...

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From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

The Renaissance “Humanist” was a foe of medieval scholastic philosophy, an admirer of the Greek and Latin classics. Now Humanist means a believer in an ethical nonreligion, in which the Supreme Being ...