Humanism vs Realism - What's the difference?
humanism | realism |
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:
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.
A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
An artistic representation of reality as it is
(sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
(philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them
As nouns the difference between humanism and realism
is that humanism is the study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.humanism
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(wikipedia humanism)Noun
(en-noun)- There were good reasons for humanism and the Renaissance to take their origins from fourteenth-century Italy.