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humanism

[hyoo-muh-niz-uhm, yoo-] / ˈhyu məˌnɪz əm, ˈyu- /
NOUN
philosophy in which human interests predominate
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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 is the idea that, first and foremost, humankind is inherently beautiful, capable, and creative.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The teaching combined the chief elements of Humanism and of Protestant theology, the works of Cicero and Terence on the one hand, and the De Anima of Melanchthon on the other.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew




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