WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Religious Humanists often maintain that most human beings have personal and social needs that can only be met by religion (taken in the functional sense just detailed). They do not feel that one should have to make a choice between meeting these needs in a traditional faith context versus not meeting them at all.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most frequently, humanism refers to a non-theistic view centered on human agency, and a reliance on science and reason rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world. Humanists tend to advocate for human rights, free speech, progressive policies, and democracy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Humanism stresses the importance of human values and dignity. It proposes that people can resolve problems through science and reason. Rather than looking to religious traditions, humanism focuses on helping people live well, achieve personal growth, and make the world a better place.

Detailed explanation-4: -Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch in English) has been identified as the first humanist, since Georg Voigt called Petrarch “the father of Humanism” in 1859 (see Voigt 1960 in Origins of Humanism).

Detailed explanation-5: -Humanism expresses that human beings has great potentiality and if developed fully, one can reach to the fullest height, provided one gets proper opportunities to develop. In humanist thought, men became free in his private life. He was not only unique but also different and could not be reduced to the other.