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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings , individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence ( rationalism , empiricism ) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
along with humanist used in a variety of philosophical and theological senses 16c.-18c., especially ones imitating Latin humanitas "education befitting a cultivated man." See human + -ism . Main modern sense in reference to revival of interest in the Classics ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE secular ▪ The problem of wife abuse is not one of feminism, secular humanism or a lack of headship in the home. ▪ By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare [syn: humanitarianism ] the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural [syn: secular humanism ] the cultural movement ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship. (from 19th c.) 2 (context historical often capitalized English) Specifically, a cultural and intellectual movement in 14th-16th century Europe characterised ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humanism \Hu"man*ism\, n. Human nature or disposition; humanity. [She] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. --T. Hardy. The study of the humanities; polite learning. ...
Usage examples of humanism.
If it achieved nothing else, humanism brought about the emancipation of the artist, a development that is still very much with us.
In the case of Kirillov, this devil is the temptation to self-deification logically deriving from the atheistic humanism of Feuerbach.
Just as Stavrogin had inspired Kirillov with an atheistic humanism based on the supremacy of reason and the Man-God, so he has inspired Shatov, at the same time, with a Slavophilism founded on the very opposite principle.
Hans Castorp, as though somewhere between two intolerable positions, between bombastic humanism and analphabetic barbarism, must be something which one might personally call the human.
It is a philosophy that renewed the splendors of revolutionary humanism, putting humanity and nature in the position of God, transforming the world into a territory of practice, and affirming the democracy of the multitude as the absolute form of politics.
The Neo-Confucianists in China had started out to do the very same thing and had ended in producing intellectual syntheses that were far removed from the down-to-earth humanism of Confucianism and the sages of early China.
Crane Brinton, professor of ancient and modern history at Harvard, identified humanism, Protestantism and rationalism as the three great ideas making the modern world.
Just as Stavrogin had inspired Kirillov with an atheistic humanism based on the supremacy of reason and the Man-God, so he has inspired Shatov, at the same time, with a Slavophilism founded on the very opposite principle.
They also tended to preach a Tolstoian kind of humanism, and dabbled to varying degrees with ideas of social leveling.
Hence the encouragement we have given to all those schemes of thought such as Creative Evolution, Scientific Humanism, or Communism, which fix men's affections on the Future, on the very core of temporality.
We shall find ourselves with the same norms of honesty, progress, and humanism, and we shall have made of God an outdated hypothesis which will peacefully die off by itse:f.
But by all means, let us base our new humanism on this power-driven monologue with rocks.
If Scientific Humanism means anything more than just words to you, you must possess a sense of responsibility.
Though it could easily come off any of Phil's solo albums, because the themes of loneliness, paranoia and alienation are overly familiar to Genesis it evokes the band's hopeful humanism.
Rational humanism, as offered by the autodidacte who is trying to read all the books in the town library, seems at first a good, almost charming possibility, until it collapses in a scene of terrible comic force.