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18 September 2017
- 08:0708:07, 18 September 2017 diff hist +744 N Quality of life Created page with "The most abstract and complex criterion of real or anticipated social welfare (*) of citizens. It is calculated on the basis of indices of the standard of living, health, the..." current
15 September 2017
- 11:1111:11, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,677 N Public opinion Created page with "(from L. opinionem, accepted concept or belief regarding something). A position or emotional attitude concerning particular issues or questions, on which people generally agre..." current
- 11:1011:10, 15 September 2017 diff hist +967 N Property Created page with "(from L. proprietas the right or faculty of enjoying and having something at one’s disposal to the exclusion of others’ will). Essential attribute or quality of a person o..." current
- 11:0911:09, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,642 N Problem of food supply, or hunger Created page with "One of the most acute contemporary global problems, affecting more than one and a half billion human beings worldwide, especially in the developing countries (*) and, most cr..." current
- 11:0711:07, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,286 N Pre-renaissance Humanism Created page with "Some authors have used this term to describe the Western historical humanism that began to develop in the mid-eleventh century. Among the exponents of this humanism can be inc..." current
- 11:0511:05, 15 September 2017 diff hist +2,616 N Power Created page with "(from L. potere, to be able). To have the capability, time, or opportunity to carry something out. The faculty and jurisdiction to order or to do something; authorization to c..." current
- 11:0411:04, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,451 N Post-industrial society Created page with "An advanced society from a technological point of view, that has surpassed or is in process of surpassing the traditional stage of extensive and intensive development of indus..." current
- 11:0211:02, 15 September 2017 diff hist +813 N Populism Created page with "(From L. populum, group of people that forms a community). Social movement or current in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that appeals to the masses. Its characteristic..." current
- 10:5810:58, 15 September 2017 diff hist +2,229 N Political party Created page with "(from L. partita, partitus: party). Union among people who follow the same interest or share the same opinion. It is a form of political organization that struggles to attain..." current
- 10:5710:57, 15 September 2017 diff hist +817 N Political culture Created page with "The integral part of civic culture (community spirit) that regulates the political relationships between citizens, political groups, and national and supranational institution..." current
- 10:4410:44, 15 September 2017 diff hist +960 N Planetarization Created page with "Radically distinguished from the concept of globalization. The latter corresponds to the trend toward imposing a worldwide homogeneity, driven by imperialism, the financial in..." current
- 10:4210:42, 15 September 2017 diff hist 0 Philosophical Humanism No edit summary current
- 10:4110:41, 15 September 2017 diff hist +705 N Philosophical Humanism Created page with "Position held by numerous exponents of Existentialism (*) and by representatives of various historicist currents. Some confused ideologies have also emerged based on so-called..."
- 10:3910:39, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,889 N Philosophical anti-Humanism Created page with " On the basis of the description developed by nineteenth-century scholars, existentialist thinkers accepted the view that humanism was a philosophy, thus clearing the way for..." current
- 10:3510:35, 15 September 2017 diff hist +486 N Philantrophy Created page with "In its root, love for humankind. In practice, various philanthropic associations began to emerge as early as the seventeenth century. These philanthropic societies developed i..." current
- 10:2510:25, 15 September 2017 diff hist +3,224 N Personalism Created page with "(from L. persona, mask, person). A philosophical theory that regards the human being and human freedom as the highest spiritual values. The notion of p. itself is much broader..." current
- 10:2310:23, 15 September 2017 diff hist +3,887 N Personal emplacement Created page with "At present, anything that may offer personal reference points, referred to action as well as to one’s psychological emplacement in front of this changing world, is subjected..." current
- 10:0710:07, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,345 N Perception Created page with "(from L. perceptio, from percipere, to grasp). Action and effect of apprehending a phenomenon through the senses, whether through the external senses or senses of the intrabod..." current
- 10:0010:00, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,444 N People Created page with "(from L. populum, the group of inhabitants of a place, region or country). 1) The entire population of a country. 2) Various forms of historical communities (tribe, nation, et..." current
- 09:5109:51, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1 Patriotism No edit summary current
- 09:5009:50, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,530 N Patriotism Created page with "(from Gr. patriotes, fellow countryman). Feeling of affection for one’s native territory, and the disposition to defend it from external attacks. Underlying this sentiment i..."
- 09:4909:49, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,278 N Patriarchy Created page with "(from Gr. patriarkhes; power of the first fathers). Primitive social organization in which authority is exercised by a male head of family, whose power at times extends even t..." current
- 09:4809:48, 15 September 2017 diff hist −36 Anti-humanist attitude No edit summary
- 09:3609:36, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,613 N Paternalism Created page with "(from patres, belonging to the father or derived from him). Doctrine that regards employer and employees as partners in the company, and recommends a whole series of administr..." current
- 09:3509:35, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,462 N Pacifism Created page with "(from L. pacem: peace). Moral and political principle that recognizes human life as the supreme social and ethical value and sees its supreme ideal in the maintaining of peace..." current
- 07:3907:39, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,036 N Orthodoxy Created page with "(Gr. orthos, right, straight, true, and doxa, opinion). Conformity with the views officially held to be true. Dogmatic rectitude in political and social groups. Orthodox Churc..." current
- 07:2807:28, 15 September 2017 diff hist +708 N Oppression Created page with "(From L. oppressio, act and effect of oppressing, to exert pressure against something, to subject someone to excessive restraint, to the point of afflicting or tyrannizing the..." current
- 07:2707:27, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,122 N Opposition Created page with "(L. oppositio, place against, opposite). 1) Contraposition of a group’s own criteria, ideas and policies against the policies and ideas in power. Non-violent resistance to s..." current
- 07:2507:25, 15 September 2017 diff hist +1,438 N Opportunism Created page with "(from opportune; L. opportunum; something done or that happens at a particular moment, on purpose and when it is convenient). Personal behavior or political attitude that disp..." current
14 September 2017
- 10:5410:54, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,532 N North-South Created page with "(Problem of Relations)This term is used to characterize the relations between the industrialized, technologically-developed countries (the North) and the developing countries..." current
- 10:5210:52, 14 September 2017 diff hist +3,144 N Non-violence Created page with "Generally refers to some or all of the following: a system of moral concepts that disavows violence; the mass movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in India in the first part of the..." current
- 10:4810:48, 14 September 2017 diff hist +385 N Nihilism Created page with "1) Systematic negation of life. 2) Negation of humanist values. 3) Anti-humanism. This term was first used by Turgenev in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons. The term “nihilist..." current
- 10:4510:45, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,865 N New surpassing the old Created page with "General tendency of the development of living structures, society and of human consciousness. If life is taken, not as an isolated and singular occurrence, but as a step of gr..." current
- 10:4310:43, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,754 N Nongovernmental organization (NGOs) Created page with "International, national and local organizations created through citizen initiative, with common extra-governmental objectives of a social, political, religious, cultural, scie..." current
- 10:4110:41, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,793 N New right Created page with "Ideological and political current that emerged in the developed countries in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Initially it included groups of leftist intellectuals disillusion..." current
- 10:3810:38, 14 September 2017 diff hist +935 N New poor Created page with "Category of workers forming as a result of the economic restructuring brought about by the scientific-technical revolution. It is made up of office workers, engineers, technic..." current
- 10:3710:37, 14 September 2017 diff hist +892 N New order Created page with "1) Hitlerian expression referring to an economically and politically centralized Europe under the control of Germany. 2) Expression that came into vogue during the presidency..." current
- 10:3510:35, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,094 N New left Created page with "Designation of the array of groups of heterogeneous philosophical ideas and political orientations which emerged in the decades of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth c..." current
- 10:3310:33, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,491 N New Humanism Created page with "The representatives of this movement have a clearly defined position in relation to the current historical moment. For them it is indispensable to construct a humanism that wi..." current
- 10:3210:32, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,166 N Neoliberism Created page with "(New Liberalism) Progressive social reforms of liberal governments after 1908. Its principal exponents were David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Present-day n. admits man..." current
- 10:3010:30, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1 Neocolonialism No edit summary current
- 10:3010:30, 14 September 2017 diff hist +780 N Neocolonialism Created page with "(New Colonialism)Second wave of colonialism (*) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During that period countries such as Belgium, the United States, Italy, Japan,..."
- 10:2510:25, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,184 N Nationalism Created page with "Pertaining or relating to a nation. Doctrine and movement glorifying the national personality or what is presented as such by its proponents; doctrine of political, economic,..." current
- 10:2410:24, 14 September 2017 diff hist +424 N National socialism Created page with "Name adopted by the old German Workers’ Party in Munich in 1920. The Nazi ideology (an apocope of National-sozialistische) is similar to that of right wing romantic authorit..." current
- 10:2110:21, 14 September 2017 diff hist +3,445 N National problem Created page with "The complex of cultural, economic, juridical, social and linguistic relationships established within a single or contiguous territory. The national problem exists between diff..." current
- 09:5609:56, 14 September 2017 diff hist +1,584 N Nation Created page with "(OF from L. nationem from nasci, to be born). The inhabitants of a country, ruled by the same government; the territory of that country; a group of persons who generally speak..." current
13 September 2017
- 09:2709:27, 13 September 2017 diff hist +1,044 N Movement of nonaligned nations Created page with "A movement of states that have declared their foreign policies as based on non-participation in military or political blocs. This movement condemns colonialism, neo-colonialis..." current
- 09:2509:25, 13 September 2017 diff hist +1,323 N Modernization Created page with "(from L. modernum, recent, and from moderno, recently come into existence, that has happened recently). Way to confer a modern form or appearance to something. To perfect, to..." current
- 09:2309:23, 13 September 2017 diff hist +2,878 N Middle strata Created page with "(a particular aspect of the notion of social layer, from Sociology). A sociological category designating an important part of the social structure of modern society and of soc..." current
- 09:2109:21, 13 September 2017 diff hist +1,172 N Method Created page with "(from Gr. methods,; meta, after, beyond, among; and hoods, way). Path of investigation, knowledge; mode of reaching an objective. Set of operations of practical or theoretical..." current
- 09:1909:19, 13 September 2017 diff hist +125 N Metalinguistics Created page with "Study of the interrelationships between the language and culture of a given people. category: Dictionary of New Humanism" current
- 09:1709:17, 13 September 2017 diff hist +205 N Metalanguage Created page with "1) Specialized language used to describe a natural language. 2) Formal language that employs special symbols, used to describe the syntax of programming languages. category..." current
- 09:1409:14, 13 September 2017 diff hist +2,617 N Materialism Created page with "(from L. materia, matter). Philosophical doctrine that considers matter as the sole constitutive reality of the real world. According to this view, matter in its higher forms..." current
- 09:1309:13, 13 September 2017 diff hist +2,515 N Marxism Humanism Created page with "Marxism is considered as a theory whose initial formulation is owed to Karl Marx. The majority of the exponents of this current tend to form a doctrinaire body known as M-L.,..." current
- 09:1109:11, 13 September 2017 diff hist +1,309 N Marginalized people Created page with "(from L. margo, extremity and border of something). A term used in contemporary sociology to characterize a large social group made up of persons who have ceased to belong to..." current
- 09:0709:07, 13 September 2017 diff hist +793 N Manipulation Created page with "(from L. manipulus, to handle with the hand). Action and effect of deceiving or applying moral coercion. System of psychological pressure to apply duress to the behavior of ot..." current
- 09:0609:06, 13 September 2017 diff hist +467 N Machiavellianism Created page with "Political doctrine of the Italian writer Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), who advises the use of bad faith when necessary to advance the policies of a state. His position is k..." current
12 September 2017
- 12:3512:35, 12 September 2017 diff hist −1 Anarchism No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 12 September 2017 diff hist +42 Anarchism No edit summary
- 12:3212:32, 12 September 2017 diff hist +2 Anarchism No edit summary
- 12:3112:31, 12 September 2017 diff hist +16 Anarchism No edit summary
- 11:2611:26, 12 September 2017 diff hist +22,660 Humanize the Earth →Author's Conference current
- 11:2211:22, 12 September 2017 diff hist +2,600 Humanize the Earth →Explanation
- 11:1411:14, 12 September 2017 diff hist +27 Human being No edit summary
- 11:0311:03, 12 September 2017 diff hist 0 Love No edit summary current
- 11:0211:02, 12 September 2017 diff hist +2 Love No edit summary
- 09:4309:43, 12 September 2017 diff hist +806 N Love Created page with "(ME. love, luve). Affection that moves one to seek a real or imaginary good and to desire its possession. The word l. has very diverse meanings, but represents an inclination..."
- 09:4209:42, 12 September 2017 diff hist +4,562 N Liberty Created page with "Supreme and essential value of human existence. In religious consciousness, l. is conceived as a spiritual gift that is bestowed upon human beings, allowing them to choose bet..." current
- 09:4009:40, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,795 N Liberalism Created page with "Political doctrine traceable to John Locke (1632-1704), one of its most important theorists. Locke writes: “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power..." current
- 09:3909:39, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,430 N Leisure Created page with "(from L. licere, to be permitted). Entertainment or recreational pursuits, especially in works of invention or imagination which form and develop the human personality. Refers..." current
- 09:3809:38, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,224 N Legitimism Created page with "(from L. legitimus, according to the Law, and from Fr. légitimiste). Principle presented at the International Congress of European powers in Vienna in 1814-15 by French diplo..." current
- 09:3609:36, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,427 N Legitimacy Created page with "(from L. legitimus, lawful). Quality of being genuine, authentic. Achieved through legitimation, the act of making legitimate; that is, verifying or validating the truth of a..." current
- 09:3209:32, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,434 N Legislation Created page with "System of norms and rules that regulate the activity and conduct of the citizens and institutions of a state. Juridical order. Also understood as the science of laws. L. is a..." current
- 09:3109:31, 12 September 2017 diff hist +778 N Leader Created page with "(ME. leder; a leader, from laedan, to lead). The director, chief, or head of a political party, parliamentary faction, social group, or other collectivity. The person or team..." current
- 09:2909:29, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,084 N Law Created page with "(ME. lawe, laghe; AS. lagu, law, that which is laid or fixed, from licgan). Obligatory or necessary rule, an act of sovereign authority. A necessary relationship between the p..." current
- 09:2709:27, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,523 N Laughter Created page with "(ME. laughen; AS. hlehhan, hlihhan, to laugh). A uniquely human physiological and behavioral property. Movement of the mouth and other parts of the face that demonstrates the..." current
- 09:2609:26, 12 September 2017 diff hist +1,178 N Landscape of formation Created page with "The individual’s emplacement at any moment in their life is effected through representations of past events and more-or-less possible future occurrences, such that, upon com..." current
11 September 2017
- 08:5408:54, 11 September 2017 diff hist +3,390 N Justice Created page with "(from L. justitia). 1) Ethical value that regulates the spiritual and social life of the human being; the social virtue par excellence. It is the foundation of law, reason and..." current
- 08:5308:53, 11 September 2017 diff hist +2,326 N Jesuitism Created page with "Doctrine, system and religious, political and social principles of the Jesuits or attributed to them; practice of dissemblance as a system of life. The Society of Jesus, a re..." current
- 08:5208:52, 11 September 2017 diff hist +2,006 N Internationalism Created page with "I. and the various internationalist doctrines recognize important distinctions among themselves, involving on occasion positions irreconcilably opposed, as in the case of the..." current
- 08:5008:50, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,029 N Intention Created page with "A complex concept that reflects the unity and interaction of the various processes that predetermine a given practical behavior of the human being. I. comprises a chain of eve..." current
- 08:4908:49, 11 September 2017 diff hist +717 N Innovation Created page with "Action and effect of changing or altering things and ideas or images, introducing something new. Process of introducing new products and technologies into the economic system,..." current
- 08:4808:48, 11 September 2017 diff hist +672 N Internal landscape Created page with "Configuration of reality that corresponds with the perception of the internal senses, weighted by memory data of and the intentional posture of the consciousness, which varies..." current
- 08:4608:46, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,144 N Initiative Created page with "(from L. initiare, to begin). Manifestation of the social activity of human beings when they take it upon themselves to make a decision that involves their personal participat..." current
- 08:4608:46, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,311 N Individualism Created page with "(from L. individuus, individual, indivisible). A moral position that places the highest absolute priority on the personal, private interest over interpersonal, collective, or..." current
- 08:4408:44, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,495 N Imperialism Created page with "The policies of a State that tends to place foreign populations and states under its political, economic, or military control. In this sense, political annexation is the clear..." current
- 08:4308:43, 11 September 2017 diff hist +1,732 N Immigration Created page with "(from L. im, into, variant of in, and migrare, to move). Act of arriving in a country in order to take up residence in it. This step is taken for objectives that may be person..." current
- 08:4108:41, 11 September 2017 diff hist +3,065 N Idealism Created page with "Platonism and neo-Platonism are frequently referred to as idealist philosophies, but given that, from the perspective of the theory of universals these philosophers are consid..."
9 September 2017
- 20:5320:53, 9 September 2017 diff hist +1,273 N Humanity Created page with "(from L. humanitas: human genre) Sensitivity, compassion for the misfortunes of our fellow humans; benignancy, gentleness, affability. In a broad sense, h. encompasses all ge..."
- 20:5120:51, 9 September 2017 diff hist +465 N Humanitarianism Created page with "Practical activity aimed at solving specific problems of individuals and human groups. H. does not attempt to modify the structures of power, but frequently contributes to sha..."
- 20:4720:47, 9 September 2017 diff hist +218 N Humanist Created page with "1) In a broad sense, any person who manifests a humanist attitude (*). 2) In a more restricted sense, any person who participates in the activity of the Humanist Movement (*)...."
- 20:4420:44, 9 September 2017 diff hist +983 N Humanist, Related Words Created page with "The word “umanista,” which designated a specific type of scholar, came into use in Italy in 1538. Concerning this point we refer the reader to the observations of Augusto..." current
- 20:4220:42, 9 September 2017 diff hist +23,548 N Humanist Statement or Statement of new Humanism Created page with "Presented at the second Humanist International (*) and the first Humanist Forum (*) on October 7–8, 1993 in Moscow, this statement constitutes the basis of the ideas of New..."
- 20:3720:37, 9 September 2017 diff hist +662 N Humanist movement Created page with "Refers to the people who participate in the proposals of New Humanism (*). These proposals are outlined in broad terms in the Statement of the H.M. (*Humanist Statement). The..."
- 20:3420:34, 9 September 2017 diff hist +3,569 N Humanist moment Created page with "Historical situation in which a younger generation struggles against the generation in power in order to modify the dominant anti-humanist framework. Such a period is often id..."
- 20:3220:32, 9 September 2017 diff hist +488 N Humanist manifesto II Created page with "Published in 1974 and signed by numerous authors and others, among them B.F. Skinner, Jacques Monod and Andrei Sakharov. The author, Corliss Lamont, serves as nexus between Ma..." current
- 20:3120:31, 9 September 2017 diff hist +306 N Humanist manifesto I Created page with "Published in 1933 and signed by thirty-four well-known authors, among them John Dewey. Written with a strong naturalist tone. In this as in the later Humanist Manifesto II, th..." current
- 20:3020:30, 9 September 2017 diff hist +651 N Humanist international Created page with "Convergence of various national humanist parties into an organization without authority concerning the tactics of each individual member. The First H.I. was held in Florence,..."
- 20:2920:29, 9 September 2017 diff hist +736 N Humanist forum Created page with "Open forum of N.H. in which organizations and individuals participate to exchange contributions and experiences based on their interests, generally formalized in the following..."
- 20:2720:27, 9 September 2017 diff hist +877 N Humanist attitude Created page with "The h.a. existed long before words such as “humanism,” “humanist,” and others like them had been coined. The following positions are common to humanists of all culture..."