Paper Details

Name: Girija Menon
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 18-21

Designed from Latin „humanus‟ meaning relating to man, humanism is an intellectual movement which characterized the Renaissance civilization. It considered the world a legitimate object of interest and tended to place reason above revelation. It further emphasized the value of education and held that the goal of education was a well balanced individual with all his capabilities fully developed. The language and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, occupied a central position in the thinking of the humanists, not because of any antiquarian interest, but because the literary products of these civilizations exemplified the ideals of humanism, best. In its vaster sense, humanism stood for exalting man‟s relationship to God and his free will, and his superiority over nature. Philosophically, humanism made man the measure of all things, a point of view expressed marvellously by Shakespeare in Hamlet