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New Directions for Community Colleges, 1983
AbstractHumanists who want to work more closely with those in other disciplines must consider another point of view. We humanists have moved too slowly to enlarge our definition of a truly educated person.
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AbstractHumanists who want to work more closely with those in other disciplines must consider another point of view. We humanists have moved too slowly to enlarge our definition of a truly educated person.
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2020
Abstract This chapter engages humanism and its fundamental assumptions by working through critical theory, black feminism, and black studies. It contends that there is a tension at the heart of humanism—while the ideal human appears to be the most widespread and available category, it has been constructed over and against certain ...
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Abstract This chapter engages humanism and its fundamental assumptions by working through critical theory, black feminism, and black studies. It contends that there is a tension at the heart of humanism—while the ideal human appears to be the most widespread and available category, it has been constructed over and against certain ...
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October, 2001
In 1948 the literary critic Leo Spitzer published his celebrated essay "Linguistics and Literary History." Originally titled "Thinking in the Humanities" when it was delivered as a lecture at Princeton to the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, it became a foundational text and curricular staple in the burgeoning field of Comparative ...
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In 1948 the literary critic Leo Spitzer published his celebrated essay "Linguistics and Literary History." Originally titled "Thinking in the Humanities" when it was delivered as a lecture at Princeton to the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, it became a foundational text and curricular staple in the burgeoning field of Comparative ...
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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Human Genetics
The Modern Law Review, 1998According to an emerging international consensus, the practice of human genetics should respect both human dignity and human rights.' In the Preamble to the Council of Europe's Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine,2 for example, the signatories resolve 'to take such measures as are necessary to safeguard human dignity and the fundamental rights ...
Roger Brownsword, Deryck Beyleveld
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Human, stubbornly human, sensibly human? [PDF]
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 2019 A century ago, shortly before his death, Simmel (1964) formulated an enigmatic idea of a philosophical sociology as a ‘study of the epistemological and metaphysical aspects of society’ (23) concern...
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1988
To the Editor. —It is easy to confuse humanism with the humanities. Eichmann, we are told, listened to Brahms and Haydn while watching the crematoria chimneys. If the curriculum returned to basics and produced a physician secure in his clinical craft, a less frustrated and more humane physician would re-emerge. Drs Alpert and Coles' reforms would be a
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To the Editor. —It is easy to confuse humanism with the humanities. Eichmann, we are told, listened to Brahms and Haydn while watching the crematoria chimneys. If the curriculum returned to basics and produced a physician secure in his clinical craft, a less frustrated and more humane physician would re-emerge. Drs Alpert and Coles' reforms would be a
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Humanizing Humanity: The Global Significance of the Humanities [PDF]
Diogenes, 2013 AbstractThe essay seeks to vindicate the importance of the humanities or liberal arts deriving from their crucial contribution to the “humanization of humanity”. This vindication is timely in view of the wide-spread curtailment of humanistic or liberal education in many institutions of higher learning. It is also timely as a pedagogical antidote to the
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European Journal of Medical Genetics, 2012
Genetics has marked the second half of the 20th century by addressing such formidable problems as the identification of our genes and their role, their interaction with the environment, and even their therapeutic uses. The identification of genes raises questions about differences between humans and non-humans, as well as about the evolution towards ...
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Genetics has marked the second half of the 20th century by addressing such formidable problems as the identification of our genes and their role, their interaction with the environment, and even their therapeutic uses. The identification of genes raises questions about differences between humans and non-humans, as well as about the evolution towards ...
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Human rights, human needs, human development, human security [PDF]
, 2007 textabstractEthical discourses can have great influence in national and international affairs. Neta Crawford’s Argument and Change in World Politics (2002) reviews five centuries of debates over imperial conquest, slavery and the slave trade, forced labour, colonization, trusteeship and decolonization.
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2018
This chapter begins by showing that the subject of all secular capitalist modernity has always already come after itself—that is, it has always been the posthuman subject–object. This results from the concomitant development of the capitalist mode of production and the secularization of thought.
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This chapter begins by showing that the subject of all secular capitalist modernity has always already come after itself—that is, it has always been the posthuman subject–object. This results from the concomitant development of the capitalist mode of production and the secularization of thought.
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