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noun. A system of thought that focuses on humans and their values, capacities, and worth.

noun. A cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized human potential to attain excellence and promoted direct study of the literature, art, and civilization of classical Greece and Rome.

noun. The study of the humanities; learning in the liberal arts.

noun. Secular humanism.

noun. Concern with the interests, needs, and welfare of humans.

noun. The body of opinions which characterized those scholars who, in the early sixteenth century, decried the medieval theology and logic and sought inspiration from ancient Greek and Roman sources, and in particular objected to the use in Latin, which was then the common language of philosophy and science, of any words not found in the writings of the early Latin writer Cicero.

noun. Since 1903, the doctrine that there is no absolute being or absolute truth not relative to human faculties and needs.

noun. Human nature or character; humanity.

noun. A system or mode of thought in which human interests predominate, or any purely human element is made prominent.

noun. The subjects of study called the humanities; hence, polite learning in general; literary culture; especially, in the revival of learning in the middle ages, the intelligent and appreciative study of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew letters, which was introduced by Petrarch in Italy, and spread thence throughout Europe.

noun. Human nature or disposition; humanity.

noun. The study of the humanities; polite learning.

noun. A doctrine or ethical point of view that emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejects claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stresses the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism.

noun. Humanitarianism, philanthropy.

noun. the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural

noun. the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare

noun. the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies

"If "humanism" is what you are looking for, only Christ is the revelation of what humanity is (18), a passage indebted to Pope John Paul II's 1979 letter Redemptor Hominis"

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