In this article, the author challenges the widely held assumption that humanism and professionalism are necessarily complementary themes in medical education. He argues that humanism and professionalism are two very different value systems with different rationales, different goals, and different agendas. Whereas humanism is a universal, egalitarian ideology, professionalism represents the paro...

In this paper I will consider and examine the figure and work of Daisaku Ikeda, a Japanese Buddhist master, philosopher and writer. It seems impossible to separate within it creed from argument, faith from reason, and religion from philosophy. In particular, Ikeda’s philosophy of human revolution is the contemporary reelaboration of Nichiren’s interpretation and practice of the Lotus Sutra. I w...

Abstract Post-humanism accuses humanism of inventing a human subject who is domineering and destructive. As remedy, it redefines the as being informed by passivity finitude bound ontological vulnerability. In so doing, undermines creative transformative power agency obliterates politics history shaped actions. Noting how this intensifies experience alienation de-humanisation, essay looks to Mar...

This paper addresses connections between J. R. Kantor's interbehavioral psychology and humanism. It discusses numerous ways in which interbehavioral thinking is humanistic. Kantor's naturalism and human-oriented historiography have foundations in the original humanism of Hellenic times. His secular orientation, cyclical theory of history, respect for Greek thought, independent critical thinking...

The article reviews the ethics of evolutionary humanism, as expressed in works modern German philosopher and critic religion Michael Schmidt-Salomon. Drawing on results biological sciences, he provides his own interpretation sociobiological meaning altruism egoism foundations human ethics. Appealing to philosophical tradition, finds support views Epicurus who considered being connected within n...

Punished by God without conducting evil, Job becomes suspicious of theodicy. His attitudes towards the world, life and have been subverted rebuilt owing to his affliction. The changed outlooks confuse torture him so that he keeps asking questions in order figure out reason meaning own suffering, which shows intelligence sensibility as a human being. This makes remarkable literary image with tin...

The terms professionalism and humanism are sometimes confused as being synonymous; even more confusing, each is sometimes regarded as a component feature of the other. The author argues that, in the context of medicine, the two terms describe distinctly different, albeit intimately linked attributes of the good doctor. Professionalism denotes a way of behaving in accordance with certain normati...

BACKGROUND Medical educators have used the hidden curriculum concept for over three decades to make visible the effects of tacit learning, including how culture, structures, and institutions influence professional identity formation. In response to calls to see more humanistic-oriented training in medicine, the authors examined how the hidden curriculum construct has been applied in the English...