He prioritized spiritual values and humanistic principles above market forces and hedonistic impulses.
They had Ph.D. degrees from some German school, all based on some atheistic, humanistic philosophy.
Are they idealistic freedom fighters with humanistic principles?
Yet when it comes to Palestinians under Israel's control, the humanistic approach to children's welfare tends to wither.
Dante prepared the way for the humanistic movement and was therefore an important factor in this great revival.
Yes; she has arranged with Cerini to work with him upon his humanistic Studies.
It was inevitable too that the humanistic spirit should control the writing of history.
humanistic writing is full of the exulting sense of this emancipation.
You see how naturally one comes to the humanistic principle: you can't weed out the human contribution.
Hence the pride which is an essential quality of the humanistic attitude.
1580s, "student of the classical humanities," from Middle French humaniste (16c.), formed on model of Italian umanista "student of human affairs or human nature," coined by Italian poet Lodovicio Ariosto (1474-1533), from Latin humanus "human" (see human; also cf. humanism). Philosophical sense is from 1903.
In the Renaissance, a scholar who studied the languages and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome; today, a scholar of the humanities. The term secular humanist is applied to someone who concentrates on human activities and possibilities, usually downplaying or denying the importance of God and a life after death.