Philosophy vs Humanist - What's the difference?
philosophy | humanist |
(uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
(uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
* 1661 , ,
(countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
(countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
(countable) A general principle (usually moral).
(archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
To philosophize.
*, II.12:
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.
As nouns the difference between philosophy and humanist
is that philosophy is (uncountable|originally) the love of wisdom while humanist is a scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities.As a verb philosophy
is to philosophize.As an adjective humanist is
relating to humanism or the humanities.philosophy
English
(wikipedia philosophy)Alternative forms
* philosophie (obsolete) * phylosophie (obsolete) * phylosophy (nonstandard)Noun
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy , he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
Meronyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* analytic philosophy * antiphilosophy * continental philosophy * personal philosophy * philosophize * philosophy of mindVerb
- Plato hath (in my seeming) loved this manner of Philosophying , Dialogue wise in good earnest, that therby he might more decently place in sundry mouthes the diversity and variation of his owne conceits.