Concept

Humanitarianism

Overview

belief system to value human life and in actively assisting other humans to improve conditions of humanity

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Humanitarianism

• Paul Feyerabend

Related ideas

• Emotion
• Feminism
• Great Britain
• Human rights
• Industrial Revolution
• Imperialism
• Judaism
• The Guardian
• Social class
• Taoism
• Cornell University Press
• Buddhism
• Altruism
• Morality
• Wikipedia
• Christianity
• Confucianism
• Cosmopolitanism
• Islam
• Human
• Social control

Opposing perspectives

• Übermensch

Place in the tradition

Part of British philosophy.

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