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Classicism vs Humanism - What's the difference?

classicism | humanism |

As nouns the difference between classicism and humanism

is that classicism is all the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion while humanism is the study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship.

classicism

English

Noun

(wikipedia classicism)
  • (uncountable) All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
  • (uncountable) Classical scholarship.
  • (countable) A Latin or Ancient Greek expression used in an English sentence.
  • humanism

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship.
  • (historical, often capitalized) Specifically, a cultural and intellectual movement in 14th-16th century Europe characterised by attention to Classical culture and a promotion of vernacular texts, notably during the Renaissance.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 575:
  • There were good reasons for humanism and the Renaissance to take their origins from fourteenth-century Italy.
  • An ethical system that centers on humans and their values, needs, interests, abilities, dignity and freedom; especially used for a secular one which rejects theistic religion and superstition.
  • Humanitarianism, philanthropy.
  • Derived terms

    * humanist * humanistic