Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am Main, the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents, Rosa (Krause) and Naphtali Fromm. [5] He started his academic studies in 1918 at the University of Frankfurt am Main with two semesters of jurisprudence.
In 1992 "Humanists of Houston", a chapter of the American Humanist Association, decided at the initiative of Marian Hillar and Robert Finch to publish lectures and seminars that were presented by notable speakers at the meetings of the group, doing so under the general title Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism. With time the scope of the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... philosophy of – Religious humanism – Religious philosophy – Renaissance humanism – Representationalism – Romanian ...
Marxist humanism views Man as in essence a being of praxis [149] – a self-conscious creature who can appropriate for his own use the whole realm of inorganic nature [150] – and Marx's philosophy as in essence a "philosophy of praxis" – a theory that demands the act of changing the world while also participating in this act.
Transcendental humanism in philosophy considers humans as simultaneously the originator of meaning, and subject to a larger ultimate truth that exists beyond the human realm (transcendence). [1] The philosophy suggests that the humanistic approach is guided by "accuracy, truth, discovery, and objectivity" [ 1 ] that transcends or exists apart ...
Martin Heidegger attacked Sartre's concept of existential humanism in his Letter on Humanism of 1946, accusing Sartre of elevating Reason above Being. [5]Michel Foucault followed Heidegger in attacking Sartre's humanism as a kind of theology of man, [6] though in his emphasis on the self-creation of the human being he has in fact been seen as very close to Sartre's existential humanism.
Humanity is a virtue linked with altruistic ethics derived from the human condition.It signifies human love and compassion towards each other. Humanity differs from mere justice in that there is a level of altruism towards individuals included in humanity more so than in the fairness found in justice.