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Humanism

noun

The doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare. Synonym: humanitarianism.

The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural. Synonym: secular humanism.

The cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies.

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"Humanism" Quotes from Famous Books

... for a moment over Pico della Mirandola, before passing on to the general effects of humanism. He was the only man who loudly and vigorously defended the truth and science of all ages against the one-sided worship of classical antiquity. He knew how to value not only Averroes and the Jewish investigators, ...

— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt

... 93-105.) Peculiarity of this period as the era of the Renaissance and of "Humanism," and as the transition from mediaeval society to modern. ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... the office he presumes to fill. Dr. John Dewey, in some late remarks upon the American universities, has perhaps shown the cause thereof. The trouble with our educational method, he argues, is that it falls between the two stools of English humanism and German relentlessness—that it produces neither a man who intelligently feels nor a man who thoroughly knows. Criticism, in America, is a function of this half-educated and conceited class; it is not a popular art, but an esoteric ...

— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken

Words linked to "Humanism" : humanist, humanistic, secular humanism, ism, humanitarianism, philosophical system, cultural movement, philosophy, school of thought, doctrine