Philosophy of Humanism by

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 17:58:30 UTC

The roots of humanism are founded in the thinking of Erasmus who believed in the essential goodness of children, that humans have free will, moral conscience, the ability to reason, aesthetic sensibility and religious instinct.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 17:58:56 UTC

Humanism was developed by Rousseau and Pestalozzi as an educational philosophy, emphasizing nature and the basic goodness of humans, understanding through the senses, and education as a gradual and unhurried process in which the development of human character follows the unfolding of nature.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 17:59:22 UTC

Humanists believe that the learner should be in control of his or her own destiny, with a focus on personal freedom, choice and responsibility, and the learner being self-motivated to achieve.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 17:59:40 UTC

Humanism is a belief that individuals control their own destiny through the application of their intelligence and learning.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 18:00:07 UTC

According to humanists there is no such thing as the soul. One cannot perceive the soul nor establish its existence through inference because inference is not seen as a valid source of knowledge.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 18:00:27 UTC

Humanists believe that consciousness arises from the material structure of the body and characterizes the body itself - rather than the soul - and perishes with the body. When a man dies, his or her consciousness goes away and one cannot prove it vanishes and exists somewhere else.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 18:00:44 UTC

Humanistic theory of knowledge states that there is no existence of casual laws - every event is a chance and everything comes into existence and passes out of it according to its own nature.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 18:01:07 UTC

Humanists deny that intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, flashes of inspiration, emotions, altered states of consciousness, and even religious experience possess any valid means of acquiring knowledge.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 18:01:27 UTC

Humanism is a philosophy for the present - humanists regard human values as making sense only in the context of human life rather than in the promise of afterlife.

msuffel0023 — 2024-10-14 18:01:51 UTC

Humanism is for those in love with life - humanists take responsibility for their own lives and relish the adventure of being part of new discoveries, seeking new knowledge, exploring new options and enjoying the open-endedness of a quest and the freedom of discovery that this entails.