I have a philosophy, a point of view, and I express it". Kurtz, a forceful leader of the secular humanism movement that holds human freedom and creativity supreme, died Oct. 20 at his home in Amherst, N.Y.
Leaders of this "humanism movement" have come from both the general public and within the ranks of medical education.
In this sense the term can also be used self-consciously, as in the New Humanism movement in literary criticism led by Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More in the early 20th century.
During the formal event, first-year medical students take the Hippocratic Oath, pledge to provide compassionate care, hear from prominent figures in the humanism movement and receive their first white coats.
The medical-humanism movement stems from a belief that physicians have become distanced from their patients because of the explosion of new medical technologies, the increasingly cost-conscious nature of medicine and the emergence of a more demanding, litigious and knowledgeable breed of patient.
The working group traces the institutions, associations, writings, and artworks identified with the Bandung Humanisms movement, connecting them to current global struggles for social justice.
New Humanism, critical movement in the United States between 1910 and 1930, based on the literary and social theories of the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold, who sought to recapture the moral quality of past civilizations the best that has been thought and said in an age of industrialization, materialism, and relativism.
While the spirit of the Renaissance ultimately took many forms, it was expressed earliest by the intellectual movement called humanism.
The movement toward humanism, partly inspired by St. Francis of Assisi and his teaching, was accompanied by a related tendency toward naturalism discernible in the visual arts in the later 13th century.
Inspired by the 14th-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch who is credited with starting the practice of collecting ancient Roman manuscripts, coins, medals, and other artifacts the literary and philosophical movement called humanism engaged a group of scholars in Florence during the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Hughes, one of the foremost writers of the Harlem Renaissance and a prime representative of that movement's cosmopolitan humanism, was born in 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, a town near the border with Oklahoma.
