Humanist vs Realist - What's the difference?
humanist | realist |
a scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities
a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism
(historical) In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics
relating to humanism or the humanities
(typography, of a typeface) Resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.
(philosophy) An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be.
(arts, literature) An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.
As a noun humanist
is humanist.As an adjective realist is
.humanist
English
(wikipedia humanist)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* nonhumanist ----realist
English
(wikipedia realist)Noun
(en noun)- Aristotle's own doctrine is far from clear. It was this lack of clarity that made possible the medieval controversy between nominalists and realists .