Meaning

An entirely human world-view, with no elements that do not reflect human senses and experience, especially with the belief that this is all human beings are capable of..

Definitions by Sense

1. An entirely human world-view, with no elements that do not reflect human senses and experience, especially with the belief that this is all human beings are capable of.
2. An aggressive and utilitarian stance toward the world, characterized by anthropocentrism and cold objectivity.
3. Secular humanism; A form of humanism with no concept of or reference to God, often associated with feminism.
4. A biblically-based love of humanity, as opposed to secular humanism.

Example Sentences

But excessive hominism has not only the defect of seeing man as the central point of the Universe, upon which everything turns: from the human standpoint it sets too high a value on man himself, and regards him solely from its subjective aspect.

For this reason hominism stands so bluntly against the old and new dogmatic materialism and mechanism.

Locke, the first to criticize the senses, proclaimed the hominism of secondary characteristics like colors and musical tones; Kant, who believed he was criticizing pure reason, asserted boldly and grandly the hominism of some primary characteristics, of space, of time, of causality;

Furthermore, as we have seen during the course of the present book, thoroughgoing anthropomonism or hominism reflexively recoils upon itself and demythologizes itself.

In Fukuzawa of Japan, there's a saying like this, "If the education of the child is before ten years old, it's animalism and if after ten years old, it's hominism.

Humanism needs the Christian faith lest it reduce man to a thing and become what MacGregor calls hominism.

The ultimate achievement of hominism is the totalitarian ideologies and corresponding to these, socio-political systems which destroy humanistic values.

He makes a distinction which goes beyond semantics as he compares humanism and hominism.

Word Forms

• hominisms
• homonism

When Should You Use Hominism?

Use hominism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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