humanism
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At its best, “The Innocents of Florence” is an example of a complicated humanism: An empathetic study of the perpetual interplay between good intentions, human frailties and imperfect outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Playwrights and directors have a duty to guide audiences through the brave new technological world that is overturning many of the bedrock assumptions of humanism since the Renaissance.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
Instead of exalting form over substance, courts should recognize the humanism of legal dilemmas and focus on it.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2024
On those points, I adhere to a fundamental humanism.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
This new, irrepressible sound was the still, small voice of secular humanism.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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Ancient Greece - Middle School and High School
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