post-humanistadj.n.
/ˌpəʊstˈhjuːmənɪst/, U.S. /ˌpoʊstˈhjumənəst/ A. adj.
Of, designating, or relating to a system of thought formulated in response to humanism (in various senses). Cf. post-humanism n.1
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [adjective] > of humanism
humanist1854
humanistic1855
post-humanist1953
1953 J. A. Hutchinson & J. Alfred Ways of Faith xiii. 465 Any significant return to traditional ways of faith..will be post-modern and post-Humanist and not pre-Humanist, and..must seek to incorporate the values of Humanism in a new and richer synthesis.
1956 Renaissance News 9 208 As late as around 1600 figures such as Tartaret appear in the Cambridge University Parnassus plays as the whipping boys of post-humanist logic, the familiar symbols of what logic should not be.
1991 Profession (Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer.) 11/2 The antihumanist or the posthumanist..position can be immensely creative, but for many of these future professors antihumanism will amount to little more than the old philistinism.
B. n.
An advocate of a post-humanist system of thought.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun] > humanism > branches of > adherents of
scientific humanist1859
post-humanist1965
1965 L. A. Fiedler in Coll. Ess. (1971) II. xviii. 396 For each in part, and for the post-humanist especially, it [sc. non-violence] will signify the possibility of heroism without aggression.
1976 New Lit. Hist. 8 143 Is the Human some aboriginal principle, toward which all theories of Imagination must finally tend? It behoves humanists to wonder, and post-humanists too.
1989 S. Gaggi Modern/Postmodern vi. 158 A second humanist belief questioned by posthumanists is the belief that the intellect is capable of apprehending any truth beyond its own linguistic maneuvering.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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