Crossword clues for humanist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humanist \Hu"man*ist\, n. [Cf. F. humaniste.]
One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.
--Schaff-Herzog.One who pursues the study of the humanities, or polite literature.
One versed in knowledge of human nature.
A person with a strong concern for human welfare, especially one who emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejecting claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stressing the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism; an adherent of humanism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "student of the classical humanities," from Middle French humaniste (16c.), formed on model of Italian umanista "student of human affairs or human nature," coined by Italian poet Lodovicio Ariosto (1474-1533), from Latin humanus âhumanâ (see human; also see humanism). Philosophical sense is from 1903.
Wiktionary
a. 1 relating to humanism or the humanities 2 (context typography of a typeface English) Resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces. n. 1 a scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities 2 a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism 3 (context historical English) In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics
WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism; "the humanistic revival of learning" [syn: humanistic]
of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion; "the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas [syn: humanistic]
pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education" [syn: humanistic, humane]
marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species" [syn: human-centered, human-centred, humanistic, humanitarian]
n. a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts
an advocate of the principles of humanism
Wikipedia
Humanist may refer to:
- A proponent or practitioner of humanism, which has several distinct senses, which are listed at Humanism (disambiguation)
- A Renaissance Humanist or scholar in the Renaissance
- Humanist (typeface classification), a class of sans-serif typeface styles
- Humanist (electronic seminar), an email discussion list on humanities computing, described as “an international online seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities”
- The Humanist (journal), a magazine published by the American Humanist Association
- Humanist (journal), a magazine published by the Norwegian Humanist Association
- A scholar or academic in the Humanities
- Humanism (philosophy of education)
Humanist is an international electronic seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities, in the form of a long-running electronic mailing list and its associated archive. The primary aim of Humanist is to provide a forum for discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among members.
Humanist is also a publication of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) and an affiliated publication of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). In 2008, there were 1650 subscribers.
Usage examples of "humanist".
Barry and I occasionally joked about the faith thing, about his being a True Believer and me the quintessential agnostic, a secular humanist.
Anthony Ascham, a sixteenth-century alchemist and astrologer and the brother of Roger Ascham, the humanist tutor to Edward VI and Elizabeth I.
Even in the later schoolmen, like Biel and Occam, still more in the humanists, one finds a much stronger rationalism than in the representative thinkers of the Middle Ages.
In the fifteenth century the influence of Huss and the humanists had in different ways formed channels facilitating the inrush of Lutheranism.
That love that the humanists considered the supreme form of the expression of intelligence was posed by Spinoza as the only possible foundation of the liberation of singularities and as the ethical cement of collective life.
Sovereignty is thus defined both by transcendence and by representation, two concepts that the humanist tradition has posed as contradictory.
It should be added that doubtless the old hard line attitudes against stylistics still exist too, but in recent years structuralism and post-structuralism, rather than stylistics, have usually been seen as the major threat to traditional values in criticism, with the consequence that most liberal humanist polemical writing has been directed at these targets.
Marxist critic, or a structuralist, or a stylistician, or some such, then you are probably a liberal humanist, whether or not you admit or recognise this.
Hence, the liberal humanist notion of unique, individual selfhood is deconstructed.
So instead of going straight into the content, in the liberal humanist manner, the structuralist presents a series of parallels, echoes, reflections, patterns, and contrasts, so that the narrative becomes highly schematised, is translated, in fact, into what we might call a verbal diagram.
PRE-REFORMERS The men who, in later ages, claimed for their ancestors a Protestantism older than the Augsburg Confession, referred its origins not to the mystics nor to the humanists, but to bold leaders branded by the church as heretics.
Peace was a value that in a short stretch of time had lost the humanist, Erasmian connotations that had previously made it the path of transformation.
Luther proclaimed that chastity was impossible, while the humanists gloried in the flesh.
In other words, Schopenhauer recognizes Kantianism as the definitive liquidation of the humanist revolution.
He did not share the dislike of Aristotle manifested by most of the humanists, for he shrewdly suspected that what was offensive in the Stagyrite was due more to his scholastic translators and commentators than to himself.