0 relating to humanism (= the idea that people do not need a god or religion to satisfy their spiritual and emotional needs):
Humanistic philosophy affirms that knowledge and power come from people and from the nature in which they live.
humanistic principles
1 treating people with respect and making certain they are safe, happy, healthy, etc.:
Libraries can play a constructive role in the dissemination of democratic, liberal, and humanistic values.
Marx's early writings were essentially humanistic.
Our values are humanistic.
The book ends with an appeal to combine social structural and humanistic perspectives in gerontology.
Understanding the different historical layering of those voices, and how and in what form they signify now, seems an imperative of humanistic study.
This explains the notion of 'being out of time', and is logically consistent with the proposition of the dominance of political ideologies for humanistic discourse.
Many of these are humanistic exercises, opportunities to display learning and verbal dexterity in addition to, often rather than, sincere praise.
It is largely a humanistic faith, celebrating the body and rejecting evangelical austerity and traditions of asceticism.
