Humanism, a word of many meanings

The word "humanism" has a number of meanings, and because there are so many different meanings it can be quite confusing if you don't know what kind of humanism someone is talking about. Literary Humanism is a devotion to the humanities or literary culture. 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 …showed first 75 words of 1650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1650 total…encourage "maximum freedom for different moral, political, religious, and social values in society." The tenth principle democratizes the economy and judges it by it's responsiveness to human need, testing results in terms of the common good. The eleventh principle is the principle of moral equality. There must be the "elimination of all discrimination based upon race, religion, sex, age, or national origin." It also talks of universal education. It deplores "racial, religious, ethnic, or class