hominism

plural hominisms · alternative homonism

1. countableuncountableAn 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.

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

   1970, Gershon Weiler, Mauthner's Critique of Language, page 291

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   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.

   1937, Aegidius Jahn, The Silver World: An Essay on the Ultimate Problems of Philosophy, page 58

   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;

   1971, Charles B. Maurer, Call to Revolution: The Mystical Anarchism of Gustav Landauer, page 58

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

   2010, Don Cupitt, Theology's Strange Return, page 110

   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.

   2013, Ai Wu, Plantain Valley, page 203

2. countableuncountableAn aggressive and utilitarian stance toward the world, characterized by anthropocentrism and cold objectivity.

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

   2011, Peter Denbo Haskins, The Transforming Power of Suffering, page 113

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

   1964, Journal of Bible and Religion - Volume 32, page 179

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

   1997, George F. McLean, Civil Society and Social Reconstruction, page 22

   Humanism and ecology would have to be abandoned and replaced by 'hominism' – if need by way of 'techno-psychotherapy' using electronic brain prostheses and psychopharmacological drugs that facilitate people's adjustment to the technological environment – and by a 'life liberated from nature'.

   2012, Hermann Scheer, Energy Autonomy, page 219

3. countableuncountableSecular humanism; A form of humanism with no concept of or reference to God, often associated with feminism.

   […] from being a devotee of gnostic gynecocracism, she turns to agnostic hominism, the very type of conversion which some Sinologists consider to have overtaken early Buddhism and Taoism.

   1986, Leo Truchlar, Opening up LIterary Criticism, page 23

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   I have heard Scruta and seen her plays and that is enough to satisfy anyone that our present way of understanding love is an enjoyable one. But I have no fear that hominism will ever destroy that.

   1925, Salvador de Madariaga, The Sacred Giraffe, page 49

   Rosemary Ruether's compilation of the "rituals" of the American "Women-Church" — which one might regard as the best-known feminist "prayer book" — also advocates, in effect, a radical hominism, a deification of the human person.

   1995, Manfred Hauke, God Or Goddess?: Feminist Theology : what is It?, page 148

   With the first rebellion against God, man was able to some extent to drive God out of himself, to expel Him out of his consciousness, out of his will, and to remain with pure humanism, with pure hominism

   2013, Rev. Justin (Popovic), Philosophical Divides

4. countableuncountableA biblically-based love of humanity, as opposed to secular humanism.

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   The author sets out with the idea that the Bible does not claim to be a statement of the doctrines of physical science; that the revelation in the Bible is purely moral and spiritual in its nature and purpose; that the truth to be revealed formed no part of the original constitution of the universe, but must be from above; and yet that in order to become potent in the life of man it must become part of human intellection. A process, which the author calls "hominism" is needed.

   1890, The Canadian Methodist Review, page 521

   The distinction between humanism and hominism is axial for Gardavsky's critical examination of Christian theology (whose milestones for him are Augustine, Aquinas and Pascal), as well as for his overall attempt to specify the requirements of a leftist religiosity critically based on the best elements in the Judaeo-Christian tradition.

   1980, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory - Volume 4, page 37