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HUMANISM (from Lat. humanus, human, connected with holm)

HUMANISM (from See also:
LAT
Lat. humanus, human, connected with holm) , mankind), in See also:

general any See also:

SYSTEM

system of thought or See also:

ACTION

action which assigns a predominant See also:

INTEREST

interest to the affairs of men as compared with the supernatural or the abstract. The See also:

TERM

term is specially applied to that See also:

MOVEMENT

movement of thought which in western See also:

EUROPE

Europe in the 15th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century See also:

broke through the See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval traditions of scholastic See also:

THEOLOGY

theology and See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, and devoted itself to the rediscovery and See also:

DIRECT

direct study of the See also:

ancient See also:

CLASSICS

classics. This movement was essentially a revolt against intellectual, and especially ecclesiastical authority, and is the See also:

PARENT, SIMON NAPOLEON (1855– )

parent of all See also:

MODERN

modern developments whether intellectual, scientific or social (sec See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

RENAISSANCE). The term has also been applied to the philosophy of See also:

COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

Comte in virtue of its insistence on the dignity of humanity and its refusal to find in the divine anything See also:

EXTERNAL

external or See also:

SUPERIOR

superior to mankind, and the same tendency has had marked See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence over the development of modern See also:

Christian theology which inclines to obliterate the old orthodox conception of the See also:

SEPARATE

separate existence and overlordship of See also:

God. The narrow sense of the term survives in modern university terminology. Thus in the University of See also:

Oxford the curriculum known as Lillerae Humaniores (" Humane Literature ") consists of Latin and See also:

Greek literature and philosophy, i.e. of the " arts," often described in former times as the " polite letters." In the Scottish See also:

UNIVERSITIES

universities the See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Latin is called the professor of " humanity." The plural " humanities " is a generic term for the classics.

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