Humanistic Ideology
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A Humanistic Ideology is a life ideology that emphasizes the value human beings.
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- Example(s):
- Epicureanism.
- Utilitarianism.
- Transhumanism.
- World Religion, such as Baha'ism.
- Love-based Ideology.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Rationalism, Religion, Empiricism, Fideism, Human Nature, Human Existence Threat, Ethics, Enlightenment.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism Retrieved:2014-11-1.
- Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established doctrine or faith (fideism). The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated, according to the successive intellectual movements which have identified with it.[1] Generally, however, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of a “human nature” (sometimes contrasted with antihumanism).
In modern times, humanist movements are typically aligned with secularism, and today "Humanism" typically refers to a non-theistic life stance centred on human agency, and looking to science instead of religion in order to understand the world. [2]
- Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established doctrine or faith (fideism). The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated, according to the successive intellectual movements which have identified with it.[1] Generally, however, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of a “human nature” (sometimes contrasted with antihumanism).
- ↑ An account of the evolution of the meaning of the word humanism from the point of view of a modern secular humanist can be found in Nicolas Walter's HumanismWhat's in the Word (London: Rationalist Press Association, 1997 ISBN 0-301-97001-7). A similar perspective, but somewhat less polemical, is found in Richard Norman's On Humanism (Thinking in Action) (London: Routledge: 2004). For a historical and philologically oriented view, see Vito Giustiniani's "Homo, Humanus, and the Meanings of Humanism", Journal of the History of Ideas 46: 2 (April–June, 1985): 167–95.
- ↑ See for example the 2002 Humanism issued by the International Humanist and Ethical Union, or the British Humanist Association's [humanism.org.uk/humanism definition of Humanism]