humanism
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“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Women can bring more humanism," said the Chilean ex-president Bachelet, who is also a former UN rights chief.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
The United States’ unique brand of humanism, with its emphasis on the individual and risk-taking, has shaped a form of free-market capitalism that continues to drive progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
“To divorce sexuality from humanism and personality is a mistake,” the late therapist Joy Browne, who then hosted a San Francisco radio show, told Newsweek in 1982.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2024
Only such real, meaningful actions as those which are sincerely motivated from a deep sense of humanism and moral responsibility can get at the basic causes that produce the racial explosions in America today.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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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