HUMANISM

Humanism

Humanism

Introduction

The word humanism came into its own in the nineteenth century and began to take on many of the meanings, both negative and positive, associated with it today. German thinkers in the 1830s and 1840s, following Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who tried to reconcile religiously, political, and conceptual elements of human existence, concerned almost exclusively with questions concerning man's anthropological status, his reason, and his partisan organization. It is in these thinkers, the ostensible young and left Hegelians that humanism began to be seen as opposed to religion and as a strong reserve philosophical and political position. Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) argued, ...