humanist

[ hyoo-muh-nistor, often, yoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
a person devoted to or versed in the humanities.
a student of human nature or affairs.
a classical scholar.
(sometimes initial capital letter) any one of the scholars of the Renaissance who pursued and disseminated the study and understanding of the cultures of ancient Rome and Greece, and emphasized secular, individualistic, and critical thought.
(sometimes initial capital letter) a person who follows a form of philosophical or scientific humanism.

of or relating to human affairs, nature, welfare, or values:
our humanist principles; a humanist approach to social reform.
(sometimes initial capital letter) of or relating to the humanities or classical scholarship, especially that of the Renaissance humanists:
humanist studies; the Humanist ideology of Petrarch.
of or relating to philosophical or scientific humanism:
a humanist philosophy that clashed with his parents’ religious beliefs.

humanist

In the Renaissance , a scholar who studied the languages and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome ; today, a scholar of the humanities . The term secular humanist is applied to someone who concentrates on human activities and possibilities, usually downplaying or denying the importance of God and a life after death.

First recorded in 1585–95; from Middle French, French humaniste “classics scholar, classicist”; equivalent to human + -ist

“You almost saw a humanist as well as an absolute demonic side,” she says now.

“There should be humanist alternatives to church in basic training,” he said.

Once, the humanist idea used to animate the very core of the university.

Instead, liberals were attacked for their “secular humanist” ideology as opposed to their philosophy of governing.

But if the religious Zionist youth movements are any indication, those values will be anything but universal or humanist.

But if I were asked to describe myself in a single word, I should call myself a Humanist.

The Humanist remedy is to remove the causes which lead or drive men into crime, and so to prevent the manufacture of "sinners."

An anthology of the literature of social protest, with an introduction by Jack London, who calls it "this humanist Holy-book."

Or, to quote the famous humanist creed of Protagoras, as Schiller is so fond of doing, "Man is the measure of all things."

The humanist method must be extended to the whole subject-matter of education, even to a revaluation of knowing itself.

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