Renaissance Humanist

Friday, 05 November 2021

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Oxford college to be renamed after £155m donation from Vietnamese company

The Times/The Sunday Times 03 Nov 2021

The graduate college, which was founded in 1962, is named after the Renaissance humanist, medical scientist and classicist Thomas Linacre ... .

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EL GRECO : Domenikos Theotokopoulos, the universal Greek artist

Greek City Times 05 Oct 2021

As art historian Keith Christiansen of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art writes, “no other great Western artist moved mentally—as El Greco did—from the flat symbolic world of Byzantine icons to the world-embracing, humanistic vision of Renaissance painting, and then on to a predominantly conceptual kind of art”.

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Was Qassem Soleimani a monstrous kingmaker or simply an enabler? The truth is as murky ...

The Independent 02 Sep 2021

The fictional works of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi may lack the essence of the humanist Utopia or of my liege Lord Henry’s Renaissance music, but the fierce rivalries and the fear of terrible death which afflict so many leaders and their supporters between the ...

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Circadia: The Renaissance Drug

Journal Review 07 Aug 2021

It’s marketing name, “The Renaissance Drug,” hints at its cornucopia of benefits ... The Renaissance was a period in Italian history — 14th, 15th, 16th century — where a humanistic (a focus on human values and worth) rebirth in learning, art and science occurred.

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Greatest Greeks of the World: John Argyropoulos, an Apostle of Greek Language and Philosophy

Greek City Times 26 Jun 2021

John Argyopoulos (Ἰωάννης Ἀργυρόπουλος) was a Greek academic, lecturer, philosopher and humanist, one of the émigré Greek scholars who pioneered the revival of classical Greek learning in Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance ... one of the greatest humanists of the Renaissance era.

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'Championing the human right to disconnect': A conversation with off-line Analog Sea founding editor Jonathan Simons

Watauga Democrat 10 Jun 2021

The Renaissance gave us models of self-determination, free from an authoritarian Church and thus the freedom to think and dream for ourselves ... But a community which grows organically around shared adoration for the arts and letters is complexity-rich, and this is when we Homo sapiens transcend our base instincts and become pluralistic humanists.

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“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East

GlobalResearch 13 May 2021

One of our most popular articles, first published on March 1st, 2013. Today, May 13, 2013. We commemorate The Nakba. 73 years ago on May 13, 1948 ... Introduction ...   ... II ... The dominant process is the breakdown of the rationalist, humanist outlook as the major cornerstone supporting the life and achievements of Western civilization since the Renaissance ... .

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FEATURE: More young Japanese look to Marx amid pandemic, climate crisis

Kyodo 05 May 2021

Saito presents a theory of "degrowth communism" inspired by Marx, in which he argues that society can stop the perpetual cycles of mass production and mass consumption under capitalism by pursuing a more humanistic path prioritizing social and ecological well-being over economic growth.

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We shouldn’t take the independence of our universities for granted

The Irish Times 04 May 2021

The great Renaissance humanist Erasmus said he longed to be a citizen of the world. I’ve always liked this quote because it sums up so much of the university ideal. Universities have been reaching out into the world for centuries – something that benefits both the institutions themselves and the country as a whole ... Brexit ... .

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Ralph Borsodi and Transition Towns

Resilience 27 Apr 2021

There, with their sponsorship, he wrote a booklet, The Pan Humanist Manifesto, which called for educational leadership for a rural renaissance – one of Gandhi’s goals – and a book, published in India, The Education of the Whole Man, which provided guidelines for teachers and university students as leaders of a self-sufficient, agrarian culture.

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Adam McPhail: When it all comes together, it all comes together

Post Bulletin 28 Mar 2021

“(Renaissance humanists) assumed that their various endeavors came together in a single, whole, human enterprise, just as the Renaissance cosmos was all interlinked, microcosm and macrocosm, by a web of common symbolism and meaning.”.

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Best practices and practical questions for a Covid-covered Lent

The Am-Pol Eagle 05 Mar 2021

Well, unfortunately Covid is still upon us ... Statistics soared ... Says Fr ...  Dwell on your Ashes ... Recall the humanists of the Renaissance such as Michelangelo who realized the greater reach of Man in the aftermath of the almost cold, constricted Medieval mind ...  Brave the Confessional ... Perhaps this rude awakening will spark yet another Renaissance of sorts.

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The witty landscapes of Dosso Dossi

New Statesman 03 Feb 2021

[See also ... Although Pliny’s book was familiar to the humanist courts of Renaissance Italy, Studius’s conception of landscape was curiously slow to take hold, despite the era’s obsession with the antique ... Dossi (1486/87-1542) is now seen as something of a curiosity, a slightly eccentric painter from one of the Renaissance’s fringe courts ... [See also.

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Experts Brought In To Save Priceless Salvador Dali Masterpiece

The Tennessee Tribune 18 Jan 2021

Owen Robertson Cheatham was an American business tycoon who founded the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co ... “Dali always wanted to emulate the Renaissance artists, those who took into consideration all aspects of art and jewelry design, and the creation was a step more in that humanist consideration,” the director of the museum said ... ....

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Enter Da Vinci’s fantasy world

Shenzhen Daily 06 Jan 2021

Da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived ... His genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist idea, and his collective works made a contribution to later generations of artists rivaled only by that of his contemporary Michelangelo.