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secular
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The problem of wife abuse is not one of feminism, secular humanism or a lack of headship in the home.
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By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West.
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Avignon was undoubtedly the starting-point of humanism and, with it, the Renaissance.
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I suggest that it is humanism - both religious and secular - that is the dominant philosophical adversary.
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I would regard Fanon's humanism otherwise.
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It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life.
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It is the irreconcilable contradiction inevitable in humanism because of its false assumptions in constructing a world-view.
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Renaissance humanism preached respect for the greatness of the human being as an individual: it stressed personal intelligence and ability.
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Renaissance humanism was marked by such reading, such continual conversation.
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This context is essential to the understanding of humanism , one of the fundamental aspects of Western thought.