PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This article examines Aşık Veysel’s poetry as a distinctive form of philosophical thought in which Turkish folk tradition, Republican ideals, and universal humanism are brought into a coherent meaning-form unity. The study aims to show that Veysel’s poems should not be read merely as examples of folk literature or lyrical self-expression, but as texts that articulate a philosophical worldview grounded in human digni…

Reference · Wikidata

philosophical school of thought

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the agency and the individual and social potential of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

Full text · Open Library

What does it take for you to persist from one time to another? What sorts of changes could you survive, and what would bring your existence to an end? What makes it the case that some past or future being, rather than another, is you? So begins Eric Olson's pathbreaking new book, The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology. You and I are biological organisms, he claims; and no psychological relation is ei…

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Yan Fu Between Tradition and Modernity. Daoism, translation, and science on the cusp of the modern era. Kirill O. Thompson, IHS, National Taiwan University. Yan Fu (1853-1921) translated important philosophic and scientific texts of Victorian England into refined Classical Chinese. He made the ideas palatable to Chinese intellectuals by interlacing the texts with comparisons with ancient Chinese texts, offering reas…