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UK
/hjˈuːmɐnˌɪst/
]
[ US /ˈhjumənɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈhjumənɪst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons
respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species
a humane physician -
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 -
of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
the humanistic revival of learning -
pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
a humane education
humanistic studies
NOUN
- an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans
- a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts
How To Use humanist In A Sentence
- Petrarch is notoriously cool towards Dante and is often characterized as unimpressed with Dante’s so-called ‘humanist’ credentials. Simon A. Gilson, Dante and Renaissance Florence (CUP, 2005)
- He has also apparently 'humanistically re-oriented the traditions of the past'. The Times Literary Supplement
- Marx may be described as a humanist, and in this century humanism has been given expression, in both secular and religious forms, in the philosophy of existentialism.
- Yesterday it was standing room only in the chapel during the short, humanist service conducted by the chapel officiant.
- These objects confirmed us in a traditional humanist understanding of the world beyond our own.
- The key to prevent such phenomena is to dissolve these exclusive or hostile theist elements in religions and to base their doctrines on a universal humanist idea.
- Religious values can often differ greatly from humanistic morals.
- His patient-centered teaching and his genteel, bibliophilic scholarship inspired later medical humanists.
- Moreover, the court and humanist circles that fostered the work of these artists were for the most part male dominated, intensely homosocial and even homosexual.
- Westerners have also taken concepts from India's ancient scriptures, and used them to go beyond behavioural and humanistic psychology to what is termed 'transpersonal' psychology and 'transpersonal' psychotherapy. Immense potential of Indian traditions