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hu·man·ly
/ ˈ(h)yoōmənlē/
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adv.
1.
from a human point of view; in a human manner:
they can grow both humanly and spiritually.
∎
by human means; within human ability:
we did all that was humanly possible.
2. chiefly archaic
with human feeling or kindness.
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Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...number of synthetic presentations of humanism, but none as "historical" as this...relatively detailed narrative history of humanism, one which takes into account the numerous...traditions, the existence and nature of civic humanism, the question of whether humanism was...
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Heidegger, humanism, and the destruction of history.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Gestalt of the worker; but rather the humanism of the Western philosophical tradition. For Heidegger, humanism lies at the root of the reification...world. Heidegger's attacks against humanism have come under renewed scrutiny, especially...
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Humanism unmodified.
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Humanism is a progressive lifestance that, without...humanitarianism. In familiar usage, the word humanism can mean different things to different...Association distinguishes the lifestance of Humanism from other usages by uppercasing the word...
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Humanism and Suffering. (Faith and Reason).
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...humanist response to suffering be? Does humanism have a credible and adequate response to suffering? I hope to show that humanism has the resources for an adequate...reasons may make it necessary. WHY HUMANISM NEEDS A RATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Why...
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'Religious humanism' and the dangers of semantic distortion.
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...I re-visited the essay "What Is Humanism?" by Frederick Edwords. Edwords...Humanist, has presented this treatment of humanism to various groups since 1989. (2...emergence of contemporary naturalistic humanism, along with some problems that attend...
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On humanism past & present.
Magazine article from: Daedalus; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...there, or can there be, any place for humanism in the world of the twentyfirst century...the broad general question of whether humanism both as a concept and a substantive ideal...course of human affairs. In the West, humanism first came to birth in Greece during...
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Relational and transcendental humanism: exploring the consequences of a thoroughly pragmatic humanism.
Magazine article from: Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...relational and transcendental elements of humanism are considered. Although the relational component of humanism is extraordinarily valuable, the author argues that the transcendental portion of humanism should be abandoned. The implications...
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Why is religious humanism?(Defining Humanism: The Battle Continues)
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Decaffeinated coffee? That's like religious humanism." As a secular humanist I am sometimes tempted to view religious humanism that way, as little more (or less...first reading his "What Is Religious Humanism?" I was surprised how often Olds...
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Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Italian Culture; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism. Edited by ANGELO MAZZOCCO. Pp. xii...collected in Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism originate from a series of panels held...assess the state of current scholarship on humanism. As distinguished scholars confess the...
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10 myths about secular humanism.
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 12/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...they are. Have you been told secular humanism is a conspiracy by the filthy rich to...leaders claim. They portray secular humanism as an insidious cancer eating away at...good and decent. Think this "secular humanism" sounds too bad to be true? You're...
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Humanism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Humanism The term humanism over the past several centuries of Western thought has been used to express two different concepts. It is not too much to say that humanism in its original form created the intellectual foundation of the Renaissance...
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Humanism: Africa
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Humanism: Africa A common misconception of African humanism is that it is a set of values brought into, instead of...prejudice is due primarily to the influence of modern European humanism, which is premised upon a secular naturalism as the only...
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Humanists and Humanism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
HUMANISTS AND HUMANISM HUMANISTS AND HUMANISM. Humanism was the dominant intellectual movement among the educated classes of Europe from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century. The term reflects the belief that certain academic subjects known...
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Secular Humanism in the United States
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Secular Humanism in the United States The philosophy and ideology of secular humanism has its roots in Enlightenment thought and is...human autonomy, and democracy. The term secular humanism has come to be widely used in the United States...
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Humanism: Europe and the Middle East
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Humanism: Europe and the Middle East The introduction of the term humanism is commonly attributed to the German pedagogical...study of the artifacts of human culture. In turn, humanism contains echoes of the much earlier Latin ideal of...
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