humanism
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Sociologist Matias Rodríguez, a lecturer at the Academy of Christian Humanism University in Santiago, attributed Pinochet's popularity among younger Chileans to a lack of awareness about the gravity of his crimes.
From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025
"Humanism is about kindness, it's about rationality," Chris added.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2022
In the early 1970s, he co-edited an entire symposium volume titled Humanism in Medicine.
From Scientific American • Mar. 11, 2020
Humanism was, among other things, an optimistic attitude toward artistic and intellectual possibility that cited the achievements of the ancient world as proof that humankind was the crowning achievement of God’s creation.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Humanism is humaneness based where Socrates and Plato based it, on knowledge, understanding and intelligence.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing humanism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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The Renaissance and Early Modern European History - Introductory
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The Enlightenment
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