Humanistic spirit is a universal self-care of human beings, which is manifested in the maintenance, pursuit and care of human dignity, value and destiny, the great attention to various spiritual and cultural phenomena left over by human beings, and the affirmation and shaping of the ideal personality of all-round development; Humanities is a knowledge education system that pays attention to humanistic spirit, and it pays attention to people's value and spiritual expression. In a sense, the reason why man is the spirit of all things lies in his humanity and his own unique spiritual culture.
Humanistic spirit reminds people of "humanism" in the Western Renaissance. Humanism mainly aims at the suppression of individuals by pre-modern religion, ethics and politics, advocates the publicity of individuality, emphasizes the importance of senses, reality and tools, and advocates the return to the secular material life of senses from the kingdom on the other side of religious gods, believing that the former is illusory, while the latter is realistic and human itself. Humanism is the starting point for the West to step out of the Middle Ages and move towards a modern society.
Humanism and humanistic spirit both deny some external alienation force of human beings, emphasizing "returning to human beings", but pointing in opposite directions. Humanistic spirit is aimed at western centralism, material consumerism and technical instrumentalism in the process of modernization, emphasizing humanistic culture, self-realization and inner care, and advocating people's subjective creative role, national self-esteem, self-reliance and self-determination From this perspective, it is meaningless to question whether the humanistic spirit existed in the past.
Modern industry and capital have changed people's material life style, especially the application of modern science and technology, which has satisfied many people's over-saturated sensory desires. However, the extremes meet, and people begin to be limited by ready-made knowledge, conventional logic, media language, bureaucracy and technical norms, becoming more and more short-sighted, boring, impersonal and cold-competitive, while people's dependence, obedience and inertia on reality are increasing, imagination and creativity are declining, subjectivity is losing, and beliefs, ideals and morality are losing. This is the loss of humanistic spirit and the putting the cart before the horse of means and purpose.
There is no abstract "human itself". Senses and bodies are human beings, and souls and spirits are even more human beings. Philosophy, religion, ethics, literature, art, politics, law, economy, science, technology, customs, etc. It's all a sign of the world. Any expansion that inhibits all-round development is the alienation and loss of human beings, and all of them need to return to "human beings themselves".
The unity of opposites between humanism and humanistic spirit: the former returns to man himself (body) from heaven, and the latter returns to man himself (spirit) from secularism.
Humanism is the core of mainstream social thoughts in the Renaissance. There is not much difference between humanism, humanistic spirit and humanistic thought. Humanism comes from English humanise, which can also be translated into humanism, humanism and humanitarianism according to the needs of different contexts. The core ideas of humanism in the Renaissance are: opposing the view that medieval theology raised God and belittled man, and emphasizing the value of man; Oppose theological asceticism and the concept of afterlife, and advocate people's pursuit of real life; Oppose religious bondage and feudal hierarchy, and pursue human personality liberation, freedom and equality; Oppose obscurantism in the Middle Ages and admire human experience and rationality; Advocate human beings to understand and conquer nature for the benefit of life.
Dictionary explanation:
Humanities: 1. It refers to various cultural phenomena of human society: humanities, scientific humanities and landscapes.
2. It refers to the idea of emphasizing people's dominant position, respecting people's values and caring about people's interests.
Humanistic spirit: advocate people-oriented, attach importance to people's value, respect people's dignity and rights, care about people's real life, and pursue people's freedom, equality and liberation.
Humanities: originally refers to the knowledge related to human interests, which is different from theology, and later refers to the science of studying social phenomena and culture and art.
Humanism: the main trend of thought in the European Renaissance, which opposed the religious teachings and scholasticism in the Middle Ages, advocated academic research, advocated freedom of thought and liberation of personality, and affirmed that man was the center of the world. It is an advanced thought in the embryonic period of capitalism, but it lacks a broad democratic foundation and has great limitations.
Humanism: the ideological system originated from the Renaissance in Europe. Advocate a caring, respectful and people-oriented world outlook. During the French bourgeois revolution, it was embodied in slogans such as "freedom", "equality" and "fraternity". During the bourgeois revolution, it played an active role in anti-feudalism.