Today, I’m going to bring up a school of philosophy.
Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, or practice that focuses on human values and concerns. The term can mean several things, for example:
- A cultural movement of the Italian Renaissance based on the study of classical works.
- An approach to education that uses literary means or a focus on the humanities to inform students.
- A variety of perspectives in philosophy and social science which affirm some notion of ’human nature’ (by contrast with anti-humanism).
- A secular ideology which espouses reason, ethics, and justice, whilst specifically rejecting supernatural and religious dogma as a basis ofmorality and decision-making.
The last interpretation may be attributed to Secular Humanism as a specific humanistic life stance.[1] Modern meanings of the word have therefore come to be associated with a rejection of appeals to the supernatural or to some higher authority.[2][3] This interpretation may be directly contrasted with other prominent uses of the term in traditional religious circles.[4] Humanism of this strand arose from a trajectory extending from the deism andanti-clericalism of the Enlightenment, the various secular movements of the 19th century (such as positivism), and the overarching expansion of the scientific project.
Humanist , humanism , and humanistic may also refer simply and loosely to literary culture.[5