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new humanism

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new humanism
an American antirealist, antinaturalist, and anti-Romantic literary and critical movement of circa 1915-1933, whose principal exponents were Babbitt, More, and Foerster, influenced by Matthew Arnold, and whose aims were to show the importance of reason and will in a context of rectitude and dignity. — new humanist, n., adj.
See also: Criticism
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Flattered as I am that Roger Scruton mentioned New Humanist, the magazine I edit, in his piece on the New Humanism (TAS, March 2009)-any publicity--I feel I should correct his misapprehension regarding the new humanist movement he claims to describe.
The new is old again by Melville, Caspar; Johnson, J. Douglas; Baillie, Mark / The American Spectator
The Pope speaks of a new humanism, a true humanism and a full-bodied humanism.
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One can acknowledge that McKnight points to the need to incorporate values deriving from new social movements as well as from the socialist, liberal and conservative movements of the past as features of a new humanism, but this may fall far short of a framing analysis of the way our current reality is constituted.
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