humanist values
Reason-based moral principles
Humanist values are ethical principles grounded in human welfare, reason, and dignity rather than religious doctrine or supernatural authority.
The phrase typically encompasses compassion, individual freedom, critical thinking, and social responsibility.
The organization promotes humanist values like equality and scientific inquiry.
In debates over education or governance, humanist values often stands as shorthand for secular ethics.
- empathySharing another's emotions
- curiosityDesire to learn
- self-actualizationAchieving one's complete potential
- personal growthIntentional self-improvement over time
- equalitySame status for all
social justice · compassion · mutual respect · critical thinking · freedom · solidarity · justice · civic virtue · inclusivity · altruism · democracy · rationality · moral reasoning · ethical living · wisdom · fairness · common good · secularism
- humanismdignity of man, Erasmus, Petrarch, anthropocentrism, freethought
- Bengal RenaissanceBengal Renaissance, Calcutta, social reform, religious reform, education reform
- secularizationsecularization, dechristianization, disaffiliation, church closures, church-state separation
- Unitarianismuniversalism, unity of God, religious pluralism, liberal Christianity, Ralph Waldo Emerson
humanist valuesreligious fundamentalism
Literal interpretation of scripture
religious dogma · canon law · sharia · papal infallibility · papal authority
humanist valuestotalitarianism
State controls everything absolutely
fascist ideology · supernaturalism · theocracy · dehumanization · authoritarianism
humanist valuestotal depravity
Humanity's complete moral corruption
misanthropy · anti-humanism · nihilism · human depravity · fatalism
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