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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

Stuart Chernoff, who was ordained through the Church of Spiritual Humanism, officiated before four guests, all vaccinated.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2022

In the early 1970s, he co-edited an entire symposium volume titled Humanism in Medicine.

From Scientific American • Mar. 11, 2020

Have you read in Schiller's new Studies in Humanism what seem to me two excellent chapters, one on "Freedom," and the other on the "making of reality"?...

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William




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