The film "Recognition of Man" explores the Renaissance era, highlighting the revival of classical ideals and the emergence of humanism in a medieval context. It emphasizes the transformation of ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons will recognize humanism as a religion, after reaching a settlement in a lawsuit filed by an inmate. Last year, the American Humanist Assn. sued the prison on behalf ...

The kind of ethical reasoning demanded in successful practice of the medical humanities is, in its way, a modern iteration of the Renaissance humanist’s moral philosophy; 21st-century applications of ...

During the Renaissance, one of the humanistic virtues was sprezzatura, a studied nonchalance. It’s a characteristic that Bakewell possesses in abundance. Her writing goes down easy.

And I’d classify humanism, or this sudden awakening of regional humanism specifically, as an artistic philosophy that’s just about the joy of love and spring and birds and all of the stuff that’s ...

Philosophy, literature, history and the visual arts were transformed by such humanism. Soon universities were transformed as well. When I asked Paul Grendler, a professor of history emeritus at the ...