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The word humanism comes from studia humanitatis ("studies of humanity").
Humanism comprised an intense concern with the studia humanitatis ("studies of humanity")—that is, grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and moral philosophy as read in Classical Latin and, sometimes, Greek texts.
In a sense, Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove and Clockwork Orange are horrific, as studies of humanity dehumanised and defeated.
The term studia humanitatis ("studies of humanity") was used by 15th-century Italian humanists to denote secular literary and scholarly activities (in grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, moral philosophy, and ancient Greek and Latin studies) that the humanists thought to be essentially humane and Classical studies rather than divine ones.
Commenting in another article in Nature, Dr. Rebecca L. Cann, a molecular biologist at the University of Hawaii who participated in the early studies of humanity's African genetic traces, saluted Dr. Templeton's research as "strong genetic support for describing the geographical center of our species as African".
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It's a bleak study of humanity.
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"If you really read the play, I think it's an incredibly respectful and embracing study of humanity".
This is the start of a study of humanity that will find out if we can cope with the rigours of travel between the planets".
As a study of humanity (including his own) in extremis, Turnbull's account of the Ik is not without great human interest and potential anthropological significance.
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