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"Humanism" in a Sentence (11 examples)
The poet always takes account of humanism before everything.
Many Jews believe the phrase "it is not in heaven" to be an expression of theistic humanism.
It is enough to read the curriculum of President Natanyahu to realize his genius and his humanism.
The Arab-Muslim countries neither support Palestine nor Western Sahara by humanism, it is because they are Arab-Muslims. Why then would they not support Western countries when it comes to terrorist acts? Why would they not support Asian, African or South American countries?
Algerians support Palestine not out of humanism, but out of racialism and hatred of the Jew.
Juan put aside his humanism.
They tried to save the stork with a broken wing out of humanism.
Existentialism is a humanism.
There were good reasons for humanism and the Renaissance to take their origins from fourteenth-century Italy.
The idea of a universal human nature brings us to a third theme, humanism. The thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment saw an urgent need for a secular foundation for morality, because they were haunted by a historical memory of centuries of religious carnage: the Crusades, the Inquisition, witch hunts, the European wars of religion. They laid that foundation in what we now call humanism, which privileges the well-being of individual men, women, and children over the glory of the tribe, race, nation, or religion. It is individuals, not groups, who are sentient—who feel pleasure and pain, fulfillment and anguish. Whether it is framed as the goal of providing the greatest happiness for the greatest number or as a categorical imperative to treat people as ends rather than means, it was the universal capacity of a person to suffer and flourish, they said, that called on our moral concern.
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Near-synonyms: solidarity, philanthropy, generosity
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