humanism
Libraries can play a constructive role in the dissemination of democratic, liberal, and humanistic values.
Marx's early writings were essentially humanistic.
Our values are humanistic.

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humanistic | Business English

humanistic
adjective
uk /ˌhjuːməˈnɪstɪk/us(alsohuman-centered)
treating people with respect and making certain they are safe, happy, healthy, etc.:
Using a humanistic approach to deal with employees can help ease workplace tensions and anxieties.

Examples of humanistic

humanistic
The book ends with an appeal to combine social structural and humanistic perspectives in gerontology.
Understanding the different historical layering of those voices, and how and in what form they signify now, seems an imperative of humanistic study.
This explains the notion of 'being out of time', and is logically consistent with the proposition of the dominance of political ideologies for humanistic discourse.
Many of these are humanistic exercises, opportunities to display learning and verbal dexterity in addition to, often rather than, sincere praise.
It is largely a humanistic faith, celebrating the body and rejecting evangelical austerity and traditions of asceticism.
They all had relevant experience in individual psychotherapy and were familiar with humanistic and existential approaches.
Anyone, approaching the matter from the humanistic standpoint, must condemn this as a dismal definition of the ' ' good life.
The rhetoric of anti-iconoclasm and anti-utopianism, deployed by the domesticated pragmatist, wraps itself in the disguise of humanistic scruple and skepticism.
Typically, the standard texts provide separate chapters on a number of different ' approaches ' to personality : trait, psychoanalytic, humanistic, social-cognitive, and so forth.
Those who distort the ideas of humanistic thinkers to incite the perpetration of evil are difficult to condemn for the actual acts committed by others.
A humanistic, decent flag hides the bullying of those who know or have the illusion of being the strongest.
This humanistic sentimentality is one of the hallmarks of the poetess tradition, or at least of its nineteenthcentury theoretical basis.
While architectural practice manages to be collaborative, as does research in other disciplines, humanistic architectural research seems to remain a lonely activity.
Mere mechanisms should not intrude on this humanistic goal.
We are therefore left with a number of stunning misconceptions about the genre and the humanistic enquiries that inspired its birth.
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