MEANING AND FUNCTIONS OF HUMANISM // BSU bulletin. Philosophy. - 2021. №2. . - С. 3-16.

MEANING AND FUNCTIONS OF HUMANISM

DOI: 10.18101/1994-0866-2021-2-3-16 UDK: 165.74

The article deals with the concept of "humanism" and its content, analyzes the debatable interpretation of humanism. We also have considered the threefold interpretation of the concept of "human", which determines different understanding of his nature. The most common definitions are biosocial and bio-spiritual. However, the most general defi- nition of a human, unifying his threefold interpretation, is the following: a being having bio-spiritual and social nature as a manifestation of his duality. Based on the definition of humanism, we have disclosed the concept of a human, which determines consumerism and competition as corresponding ways of being. As a result this way of being forms destruc- tive moral qualities in a person, which leads to his dehumanization. Hence, humanism as the ideology of capitalism frees a person from social and spiritual alienation, but involves him in material alienation.

humanism, theism, humaneness, worldview, ethics, way of being, spiritual values, consumerism, sacrifice, ideology, human