What are some traits that characterize humanism?

Answer 1

Roman Catholic AnswerThere are two distinct, one could almost say, three distinct kinds of Humanism. Humanism was a name originally given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movements of the fourteenth through the early sixteenth centuries. The pagan humanism (first kind) stressed the full development of human nature and was only vaguely interest in life after death. Christian humanism (second kind) encouraged free use of the treasures of antiquity without compromising the truths of the Gospel. The trait was to base every branch of learning on the culture of classical Greek and Roman antiquity. The third kind came after the French Revolution, extreme humanism whose primary trait was to reject and rebel against Christian revelation and the Church.