The humanists reveled in form and esthetics but knew next to nothing of gravity, magnetism or the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
This means that pay varies not only between universities but also within them a cause of anguish among the humanists who earn a fraction of the amounts commanded by colleagues in hot sciences such as biotechnology, and specialisms such as finance and management.
But Polly Toynbee, president of the British Humanists' Association, insisted it was only right that the archbishops should be able to speak out.
Carolingian script -- being much simpler, cleaner and easier to read than Gothic -- suited the Continental Humanists' purposes, and was popular enough to become the next step in the evolution of English writing.
But Jaron Lanier, Douglas Rushkoff and the other digital humanists are correct to say that online discourse is best when we express ourselves in our own name.
This divorce of narration from structure in Western architecture was confirmed in the early Renaissance (15th century), when humanists sought to elevate the status of architects, establishing the designer's control of every element of a structure, conferring an auteur dominance.
Perhaps the clever political scientists, complacent humanists, Spenglerian declinists, right and left neo-isolationists, and simple doubters that the U.S. can do anything right are correct.
Humanists like Paul Kurtz barely exist today because the production, availability of books, and the ability to read is only a couple centuries long for most people.
He joins a chorus of other digital humanists, including Douglas Rushkoff and Jaron Lanier, who have diagnosed the ways that our technology is failing to deliver the benefits it has promised.
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The Freethinkers say that they are not necessarily atheists, but include agnostics, secular humanists, deists and Unitarian Universalists.
Continental Humanists sought to apply Renaissance logic and critique to ancient texts, making the writing more digestible and accessible to a wider audience.
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