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Its Educational Implications
By
M.VIJAYALAKSHMI
Assistant Professor
• Very old philosophy
• It is derived from the great minds and
works in Eastern and Western history and
literature
• Does not find its origin in experimental
sciences and mathematical statistics
• It is movement to gain for man a proper
recognition in the universe
• It is concerned with the restoration of lost
values
• Humanist thought – man is an end and not
a means
Literal Meaning
• Humaniora – means study of human
body and surrounding nature
• Lamon –
• “Humanism is a Philosophy of Joyous
Service for the greater good of all
humanity in this natural world and
according to the methods of reason and
democracy”
Meaning
• Cultural movement to emancipate the quest
for human excellence
• Implies a specific preferences for human
values
• Blind faith on religious dogmas is to be left
out
• Want secularism of education
• Truth must be based on reason
• Moral virtues should not be cultivated
• Humanism is the attitude of
mind which attaches primary
importance to man and to his
faculties, affairs temporal
aspirations and well-being
- Encyclopedia Britannica
Based on two principles
Values upheld by a nation affect history
• Good follows when a nations values are
of the highest quality
• Modern man must learn from history
Great literature stresses values
• Ramayana, Mahabharta and
Panchatantra
• Humanism means religious freedom
• Humanism is a proper adjustment in life
• Humanism as a philosophy asserts that
man is the centre and measure of all
activities in the world
• It means to express feeling about all
human happenings
• The purpose of humanism is to create
interests in all spheres of life
Fundamental postulates of Humanism