Renaissance Humanism

Renaissance Humanism

male
ancient greek, studia humanitatis, introspection, Renaissance humanist, humility, humanism
Renaissance humanism (often designated simply as "humanism") was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the...
Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

male, 60 years old
journalist, atheist, Atheist activist, naturalized citizen of the United States, American, Slate…humanism
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth , England ) is a journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in...
Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

male, deceased (1996)
scientist, Astronomer, agnostic, astrobiologist, Seti, Science writer…humanism
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural...
Petrarch

Petrarch

male, deceased (1374)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Sonneteers, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, Latin writer…humanism
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarcha) (July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early Renaissance humanist. Petrarch is often...
Thomas More

Thomas More

male, deceased (1535)
Roman Catholic, executed under the Tudors, from the City of London, English Renaissance humanist, Old Waynflete, Catholic martyr of the Early Modern era…humanism
Thomas More Thomas More Thomas More had an education suited to a son of a gentleman, and seemed destined for the legal career mapped out by his...
Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer

male, 55 years old (Altadena, California, United States)
New Age author, Brights, Exploring the Unknown, atheist, The Science of Good and Evil, fundamentalist Christian…humanism
Michael Shermer , as head of one of America's leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this...
Peter Singer

Peter Singer

male, 63 years old
Princeton University, philosopher, Animal liberation movement, animal liberation, Princeton University faculty, activist…humanism
Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Jewish-Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp...
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

male, deceased (1892)
poet, gay, realism, New York writer, queer studies, Bisexual writer…humanism
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male, deceased (1832)
Farbenlehre, theology, Elective Affinities, bildungsroman, Autobiographer, epistolary novel…humanism
"'"',, (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism,...
Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm

male, deceased (1980)
Marxist, Jewish, From FRANKFURT, philosophy, National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty, Social psychologist…humanism
Erich Pinchas Fromm (March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst,...