humanist
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concept
A humanist is a person who emphasizes the value, dignity, and agency of human beings, focusing on reason, ethics, and human welfare rather than divine or supernatural matters.
Aliases (3)
- German humanist ×1
- humanist philosophy ×1
- humanist thinker ×1
Instances (17)
- Theodore Beza
- Ashley Montagu
- Francesco Petrarca
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Coluccio Salutati
- Philip Melanchthon ("German humanist")
- Lorenzo Valla
- Irving Babbitt
- secular humanism ("humanist philosophy")
- Julian Huxley
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
- Michael Servetus
- Ulrich von Hutten
- Justus Lipsius
- Sachal Sarmast ("humanist thinker")