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Betting on humans without needing a god to co-sign the wager.
means A worldview and intellectual tradition that centers human reason, ethics, dignity, and potential, rather than appeals to divine authority or the supernatural.
from From Latin 'humanus' (human), by way of Italian 'umanista' — a Renaissance term for scholars devoted to the 'studia humanitatis,' the study of classical poetry, rhetoric, history, and ethics, as opposed to theology or law. The word 'humanism' itself is a later, 19th-century label, coined by historians looking back to describe that Renaissance revival of human-centered learning. Over time it broadened from a style of classical scholarship into a philosophical stance: that human values and reason can stand on their own, without needing a theological co-signer.
- origin
- Renaissance scholars rediscovering pagan Greeks, not atheists plotting
- core claim
- Meaning comes from people, not decrees from above
- common myth
- Not anti-religion, just pro-human-agency
- modern form
- Secular weddings, funerals, ethics, minus the dogma