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The problem of different kinds of humanism

Ratko Perić

Abstract

The author deals, first, with an historical retrospective of Humanism
searching its meaning and general lines in Greek philosophy, in the
period of the Humanism and Renaissance and in the last two centuries
(after French revolution).
Second part of this article treats the problem of some modern atheistic
forma of Humanism. The doctrine of the Council Vatican II on the
atheism (Gaudium et spes, 19—21) and the humanistic aspects of the
atheistic existentialism (J. P. Sartre) are being diffuse analysed.
In the third part the author lays down some reflections on the atheistic
humanism from the point of view of the Christian faith. The values
of the Transcendence, Love of God and Incarnation show the relativity
and limitation of the atheistic humanism.
In conclusion: if a man (or a society), striving to humanize himself,
does not exceed the bounds of the greatest wordly goods, he is going
to succumb to a semihumanism or to a pseudohumanism.

Keywords

humanism

Hrčak ID:

90145

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/90145

Publication date:

17.3.1980.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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