Anthropism

Quick meaning: Anthropism is a noun meaning The belief that human beings have a spiritual nature beyond the physical body characterized by in-dwelling Divinity.

Meaning

The belief that human beings have a spiritual nature beyond the physical body characterized by in-dwelling Divinity.

More Meanings

1. The belief that human beings are fundamentally different from everything else in nature and that the world was made for them.

Example Sentences

Homeric, and to an extent Hesiodic, myth amounts to "perfected anthropism," depicting the divine-made-human

Actually we are guilty of anthropism, not anthropomorphism, a guilt shared with an increasing number of scientists, for the universe and our place in the universe are guilty of anthropism as well.

In transitioning from anywhere to everywhere, we must reinvent the means of reading the world as containing both an autograph—though we do not presume to attach it either to a divinity or to an anthropism—and an hermeneutic.

Philosophy is absolutely opposed to theology, anthropism to theism ; but this must not be taken to imply that theism is utterly false, or that anthropism is atheistic, for all that is meant is that the anthropistic outlook and point of departure has come into its own in modern philosophy.

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Related dictionary entries include animism, animatism, spirituality, extroversion, spiritualism, pampathy.

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