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	Humanism - LoveToKnow 1911
		The term is specially applied to that movement of thought which in western Europe in the 15th century broke through the medieval traditions of scholastic theology and philosophy, and devoted itself to the rediscovery and direct study of the ancient classics.
		This movement was essentially a revolt against intellectual, and especially ecclesiastical authority, and is the parent of all modern developments whether intellectual, scientific or social (see RENAISSANCE).
		In ordinary language the adjective "humane" is restricted to the sense of "kind-hearted," "unselfish": the abstract "humanity" has this sense and also the sense of "that which pertains to mankind" derived in this case with the companion adjective "human."
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Humanism (219 words)

	Epstein - Grassroots Environmentalism and Strategies for Social Change
		Most of the people involved in these groups were young people, influenced by the antiwar movement and by the counterculture, and one of their aims was to persuade others in the antiwar and other radical movements of the time that the environment was a legitimate political issue.
		Though the environmental movement of the late sixties and seventies had made the question of pollution a priority, and some federal legislation was achieved on this issue during the seventies, the issue of hazardous waste did not become a focus of activism, or of public concern, until 1978.
		In the environmental justice movement, the concept of political context, the idea that struggles for environmental justice are connected to struggles around race and class, is likely to be explicit from the beginning - in contrast to the largely white section of the movement, where these connections generally emerge over time.
	www.interweb-tech.com /nsmnet/docs/epstein.htm (8472 words)

	Humanism (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the High Renaissance, Rome was the center of the literary movement known as "Ciceronianism" that aimed to standardize Latin diction by modelling all prose on the writings of Cicero.
		In the end, it proved impossible to consummate the marriage of humanism and the Catholic condition.
		Humanism, which began as a movement to revive ancient literature and education, soon turned to other fields as well.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/vatican/humanism.html (5020 words)

	Humanism \| International Humanist and Ethical Union
		Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance, which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives.
		Humanism is a democratic, non-theistic, and ethical life stance which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility for giving meaning and shape to their own lives.
		This Board calls on all humanist individuals and organisations to be tolerant of each other's conceptions of humanism; and in particular, where ideas of other groups are within the basic statement on humanism, it calls on humanist to refrain from implying that these ideas are not truly humanism.
	www.iheu.org /taxonomy/term/52 (776 words)

	IPT Journal - "Analysis of a Social Movement: Recovered Memory Therapy vs the False Memory Syndrome"
		Touraine defines a social movement as the collective, organized behavior of an agent who is fighting an adversary for the social stewardship of historicity in a concrete collectivity.
		Social movements, then, can be said to defend a given cultural and historical alternative, a different way of seeing society, a certain conception of society which members of the movement seek to communicate to the population.
		Touraine defines social struggle as, "all forms of organized, conflictual action led by a collective agent against an adversary for control of a social sphere." For a movement to qualify as a struggle (as is the case with RMTA/FMSF) four conditions must be fulfilled.
	www.ipt-forensics.com /journal/volume8/j8_3_9.htm (17152 words)

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		Renaissance humanism was a cultural movement in Europe beginning in central Italy in the 14th century that revived and refined the study of the language (in particular the Greek language), science, philosophy, art and poetry of classical antiquity.
		Renaissance humanism was an aristocratic movement, not at all a democratic one, and it has always had opponents who saw it as a corrupting, luxurious doctrine.
		The striptease of humanism marks the twilight of Western thought which is exposed as a mass of tortuous, twisted tensions, contradictions, oscillations, polarizations — all stemming from the alienations of men who can explain neither themselves nor their universe.
	www.lycos.com /info/humanism.html (639 words)

	List of political parties in Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bulgaria has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
		National Movement Simeon II (Nacionalno Dviženie Simeon Vtori)
		National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland (Nacionalno Dviženie za Spasenie na Otecestvoto)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Bulgaria (286 words)

	What Is Humanism
		Renaissance Humanism is the spirit of learning that developed at the end of the middle ages with the revival of classical letters and a renewed confidence in the ability of human beings to determine for themselves truth and falsehood.
		Humanism's rejection of the notions of sin and guilt, especially in relation to sexual ethics, puts it in harmony with contemporary sexology and sex education as well as aspects of humanistic psychology.
		Humanists are committed to civil liberties, human rights, church-state separation, the extension of participatory democracy not only in government but in the workplace and education, an expansion of global consciousness and exchange of products and ideas internationally, and an open-ended approach to solving social problems, an approach that allows for the testing of new alternatives.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/fred_edwords/humanism.html (3713 words)

	The Humanist Movement Online \| New Humanism \| Non-violence \| Internal Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Violence will continue to color all social activity as long as the human being does not fully realize a human society–a society in which power is in the hands of the social whole and not some part of it that subordinates and objectifies the whole.
		The Humanist Movement works for an overall change in society, which is possible only by transforming the power structures of the present system (the legal system and values that rule our social organization).
		All relationships are betrayed at the same time that another social extreme is created with all the ills of extreme poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction, delinquency, crime and narcotraffic (all of which not only increased drug abuse, but also the growth of a violent economy based on illegal capital).
	www.netwiz.net /~humanism (2384 words)

	Renaissance Humanism
		Humanism is the term generally applied to the predominant social philosophy and intellectual and literary currents of the period from 1400 to 1650.
		Humanism embodied the mystical and aesthetic temper of a pre-scientific age.
		Indeed, it was during the humanist era that the freedom of individual expression and opposition to authority was first brought to the surface and became an integral part of the western intellectual tradition.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/humanism.html (1612 words)

	Humanism
		Humanism was not opposed to logic, as is commonly held, but opposed to the particular brand of logic known as Scholasticism.
		Humanism, then, really begins during the middle ages in Europe; while the humanist scholars of the Renaissance made great strides and discoveries in this field, humanistic studies were really a product of middle ages.
		Humanism as an educational curriculum began in the early years of the fourteenth century in Italy.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/REN/HUMANISM.HTM (3058 words)

	Humanism and Open Education
		Humanism is a school of thought that believes human beings are different from other species and possess capacities not found in animals (Edwords, 1989).
		Skinner’s operant conditioning theory posits no significant differences between animals and human beings; Piaget’s cognitive development theory states that the only difference between a human being and an animal is that a mature human being acquires the ability to engage in abstract symbolic thought.
		Surprisingly, this antagonistic focus on humanism exists in spite of the fact that it is the only school of learning and development which includes a strong, though small, advocacy group that proposes human beings are both material and spiritual beings.
	chiron.valdosta.edu /whuitt/col/affsys/humed.html (1785 words)

	Civic Humanism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		It remained nonetheless important for the value of civic humanism as a paradigm of politics and civil society that it not be considered a mere ideological abstraction but that it be believed to have roots in the lived experience of the English-speaking polities.
		Civic humanism is generally taken as an equivalent or as a particular variant of republicanism, meaning a conception of politics in which government is in principle the common business of the citizens.
		The advent of civic humanism marked for Baron the victory of secular economic, social, and political ideals versus the asceticism, religious obscurantism, and hierarchy of the Middle Ages.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /entries/humanism-civic (4748 words)

	Humanism: An Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The intellectual and social movement which historians call humanism is what lies at the base of the period we call the Renaissance.
		Simply put, humanism is a rediscovery and re-evaluation of the aspects of classical civilization (ancient Greece and Rome) and the application of these aspects to intellectual and social culture.
		One of the ways in which the spirit of humanism was expressed was in a rise in appreciation for the artifacts of the past.
	www.byu.edu /ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/Humanism.html (1390 words)

	Fernand Braudel Center, I. Wallerstein, "The End ofCertainties in the Social Sciences"
		Social science was institutionalized in the late nineteenth century in the shadow of the cultural dominance of Newtonian science.
		The practitioners of this new knowledge movement insisted that all cultural activity occurred within a social context, that it was produced and appreciated differently according to the social location of the producer or the appreciator.
		Social science is after all the study of the most complex systems that exist, and therefore the most difficult to translate into systematic analysis.
	fbc.binghamton.edu /iwendcrt.htm (6723 words)

	Bulgaria Update - European Forum
		The movement stresses the fact that it is not a party, even though it is registered as a party according to the political parties law.
		Movement for Social Humanism and Tomov's Civic Alliance for the Republic played an important role and later it was joined by reformist and social democratic BSP dissidents.
		Initially the movement was a coalition from the unregistered Simeon II national movement with the already registered parties, Bulgarian Party of Women (leader Vessela Draganova-Dencheva) and the Movement for National Revival (leader Tosho Peikov).
	www.europeanforum.net /country/bulgaria (5792 words)

	humanism
		In western Europe, humanism came to the fore in the Renaissance with the emergence of the Italian humanists in the Fifteenth Century.
		24 The initial statement, that human beings are born with reason and conscience, attempts to capture the fact that human interactions do not depend for their success on reason alone.
		Consequently, human obligations are to be recognized as both personal and as shared by various groups in society.
	www.humanistictexts.org /humanism.htm (3769 words)

	Cult of Humanism
		Humanism is a philosophy which in most cases embraces Agnosticism or Atheistic belief about the non-existence of a deity.
		Renaissance Humanism: A movement starting at the end of the Middle Ages which renewed an interest in classical studies and promoted the concept that truth could be discovered by human effort.
		Replacing these factors is a belief in humanity as the highest known form of intelligent life, and a belief in the scientific method as the best way to determine truth.
	www.eaec.org /cults/humanism.htm (1192 words)

	Coalition for Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats (Partija Balgarski Socialdemokrati)
		Movement for Social Humanism (Dviženie za Socialen Humanizum)
		Green Party of Bulgaria (Zelena Partija na Balgarija)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coalition_for_Bulgaria (162 words)

	The History and Philosophy of Humanism
		Humanism is the naturalistic philosophy or way of life centered on human concerns and values that asserts the dignity and worth of humans and their capacity for self-actualization through the use of reason and scientific inquiry.
		Ehrenfeld's confounding of the word "humanism" with "anthropocentrism" was due to either or both his own ignorance of the history and meaning of humanism or a deliberate, mendacious effort on his part to pervert and libel the word "humanism" (I honestly don't know which).
		Humanism is primarily derived from the Enlightenment, not the Renaissance or the liberalization of religion.
	www.freeinquiry.com /humanism-uu.html (10619 words)

	Christian Humanism
		Humanism, an educational and philosophical outlook that emphasizes the personal worth of the individual and the central importance of human values as opposed to religious belief, developed in Europe during the Renaissance, influenced by the study of ancient Greek and Latin literature and philosophy.
		Humanism thus began as an educational program called the humanities, which inculcated those ancient secular values which were consistent with Christian teachings.
		Christian humanists acknowledge the contributions of other forms of humanism, such as the classical variety that discovered the value of human liberty, and the Marxists, who realize that man has been estranged from the good life because he is dispossessed of property and subordinated to material and economic forces.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/chrishum.htm (1582 words)

	Humanism Definitions. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The other part of the definition is that humans should be moral-that each human being is a precious commodity, and deserves the maximum amount of freedom and opportunity, insofar as it does not infringe upon the freedom and opportunity of another.
		Humans make the moral rules, and humans should obey those rules, because each human being is priceless.
		Humanism is called "religious" by those who regard it as their personal creed.
	www.members.aol.com /deca10x/humanism.htm (1594 words)

	humanism, humanist, humanists
		Secular humanists contend that issues concerning ethics, appropriate social and legal conduct, and the methodologies of science are philosophical and are not part of the domain of religion, which deals with the supernatural, mystical and transcendent.
		Secular humanism, then, is a philosophy and world view which centers upon human concerns and employs rational and scientific methods to address the wide range of issues important to us all.
		While secular humanism is at odds with faith-based religious systems on many issues, it is dedicated to the fulfillment of the individual and humankind in general.
	www.freethoughtassociation.com /humanism/humanism.htm (1050 words)

	Humanism Summary
		Humanism Humanism in the present era signifies an ideological doctrine that places human beings, as opposed to God, at the center of the universe.
		Humanism in its broadest sense can be traced to the philosophical movement that originated in Italy in the second half of the fourteenth century and that affirmed the dignity of the human being.
		Humanism is a broad category of active ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities—particularly rationalism.Humanism is a component...
	www.bookrags.com /Humanism (367 words)

	Council for Secular Humanism
		Secular humanism has provided an impetus for humans to solve their problems with intelligence and perseverance, to conquer geographic and social frontiers, and to extend the range of human exploration and adventure.
		Secular humanist ethics maintains that it is possible for human beings to lead meaningful and wholesome lives for themselves and in service to their fellow human beings without the need of religious commandments or the benefit of clergy.
		Since human beings are prone to err, we are open to the modification of all principles, including those governing inquiry, believing that they may be in need of constant correction.
	www.secularhumanism.org /index.php?section=main&page=declaration (3829 words)

	Institute for Social Ecology: Biotechnology, Democracy, and Revolution
		The movement against globalization, a movement critical of ‘free trade,’ biotechnology, mass telecommunications, and the chain-store modality, is steadily becoming a key forum in which people are articulating this new kind of disenchantment.
		The movement against biotechnology and the wider anti-globalization movement is potentially a parallel moment to the uprisings of pre-libertarian peasants centuries ago.
		It is time for the movement against biotechnology, and the wider anti-globalization movement, to inspire activists to rediscover their political power in the broadest and most radical sense.
	www.social-ecology.org /article.php?story=20031028144305287&mode=print (5296 words)

	Secular Humanism and Skepticism
		Humanism, an educational and philosophical outlook that emphasizes the personal worth of the individual and the central importance of human values as opposed to religious belief, developed in Europe during the Renaissance, influenced by the study of ancient Greek and Latin literature and philosophy.
		Therefore the social role of humanism is to be an organized and socially active worldview, and the general political mission of humanism in Russia is to humanize both the people's political consciousness and the political institutions of society.
		However, a humanist movement has to try and become an influential moral-political force, and its 'all-political role is the humanisation of political consciousness of civic man, of practices of political parties and of the state.' (26) Thus the actual choice of the RHS is for humanistic enlightenment.
	www.softpanorama.org /Skeptics/humanism.shtml (7368 words)

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