What does the conceptual framework of humanism and adjustment have to offer us?
Part I of II
Appeal to humanism: Philosophers of the 1800’s turned their attention to various aspects of human experience. The human being became the center of philosophic attention.
The Appeal to Adjustment: In the 1900’s, philosophy has taken two major directions
1. tried to build a systematic picture of physical reality based upon scientific development.
2. the other, on an increasing concern about humanity… They are concerned with how we can survive in, and adjust to, our changing world. –World Book Encyclopedia, p. 351
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The 1800s and 1900s brought the emphasis of the individual.
It was the individual that experienced life, not the species as a whole.
It was the individual that had to endure trauma and pain, not the species.