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US
/ˌhjuməˈnɪstɪk/
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[ UK /hjˌuːmɐnˈɪstɪk/ ]
[ UK /hjˌuːmɐnˈɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons
respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species
a humane physician -
of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion
the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution -
of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
the humanistic revival of learning -
pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
a humane education
humanistic studies
How To Use humanistic In A Sentence
- He has also apparently 'humanistically re-oriented the traditions of the past'. The Times Literary Supplement
- Religious values can often differ greatly from humanistic morals.
- Westerners have also taken concepts from India's ancient scriptures, and used them to go beyond behavioural and humanistic psychology to what is termed 'transpersonal' psychology and 'transpersonal' psychotherapy. Immense potential of Indian traditions
- For the Renaissance, he was a wellspring of learning and a model for humanistic writing.
- Using the humanistic technique of history and reminiscence, this article traces the idiosyncracies of the pythagorean philosophy: the refusal to put law in writing, the use of hieroglyphs, the dependence upon oracular judgment, the belief in multiple lives, askesis and akousmata, and places them at the root of what is most emblematically common law. Archive 2008-04-01
- Evans believes the building's form fulfills the need for a humanistic, and occasionally humorous, approach to normally unstimulating work environments.
- Those who allow Satan in their temple, declaring humanistic wisdom, are exalting themselves above God and opposing God.
- India has always existed for humanity and not for herself", Aurobindo contended at Uttarpara, "and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great".26 The inversion of the humanistic aspiration in Hinduism and Islam alike to a parody called communalism is the signal achievement of our secularist historians, not of Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo carried this message of the spirit from Bombay to Bengal, from Baruipur to Kishoreganj
- Written in admirably clear Latin, it is a typical humanistic work in its classical quotations and references and historical and philological discussions.
- The 1981 Perennial Dictionary of World Religions classifies the Unitarian Universalist Association as a development within Christianity, but observes that the new denomination, active in liberal causes, continues its predecessors the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of Americas commitment to live in the tension between humanistic liberalism and Christianity 776. Philocrites: Unitarian Universalism: In search of a definition
