Word: humanisme
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"THE sudden capture of the national attention by humanism in the year 1930," says Professor Mercier, "might at first seem strange." Strange, but not unprecedented. To a large section of the national attention, the New Humanism was only one more new doctrine in a long train--transcendentalism, pragmatism, New Thought...
The title might be misleading. A book with such a title is generally in opposition and in reply to the challenge. But Professor Mercier is one of the challengers, and the challengees are all those who feel confident that the new and revolutionary philosophies of the last few hundred years...
First, to clear the confusion about the name itself. A brief footnote dismisses, with restraint, those left-wing Unitarians who have appropriated the name to describe a sort of non-religious religion based on extreme naturalism--the antithesis of traditional humanism. A vigorous effort is made to prove the continuity...
Humanism is what its name implies. It is concerned with man, not as a part of a monistic universe, but as a unique being, intelligent and responsible, able to discover right ways with his reason and able to follow them with his will. It is equally opposed to idealistic and...
The case for humanism is in the records of human experience. In its very methodology it opposes naturalism; human experience is not the data of consciousness furnished by the egocentric self, but the complete record of the race, i.e., history and literature. Hence the labors of Babbitt, reflected in that...