He uses art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the narrative and concludes with an account of the limitations of humanism at the end of the Renaissance. The revised edition ...

This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participated in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. Harnessing the discipline of mechanics to their literary and ...

It was this achievement of a true idealism in art which gave the world Humanism, and which was the unique achievement of Greek culture, Read said. He offered the figures on the frieze of the ...

(British Humanist Association) Humanists are not convinced by the "natural law" argument. Humanists who do not believe in God dismiss the argument that contraception interferes with God's plan for ...