MEANING
1. Relating to an outlook that emphasizes human reason, agency, and values rather than reliance on supernatural authority.
2. Treating people as individuals whose dignity, wellbeing, and capacity to develop deserve respect.
Use it for
describing a human-centered philosophical outlook; analyzing an emphasis on reason and human agency; identifying the values underlying an educational approachIdentifies an emphasis on human agency, dignity or wellbeing, while separating a philosophical commitment from a caring practice. Academic functions: Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- humanistic philosophy
- humanistic values
- a humanistic outlook
On the page
The essay identifies a humanistic emphasis on the capacity for moral judgment.
The curriculum’s humanistic outlook places human agency at the center of historical interpretation.
The report advocates a humanistic approach that gives patients a voice in treatment decisions.
A humanistic education values personal development as well as examination performance.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- humanistic
Usage notes
Relational adjective, usually attributive. More humanistic is possible for comparisons of emphasis, not a standard -er form. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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