Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller | British philosopher | Britannica (original) (raw)

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humanism

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  In humanism: Other uses
  …century the pragmatic humanism of Ferdinand C.S. Schiller, the Christian humanism of Jacques Maritain, and the movement known as secular humanism, though differing from each other significantly in content, all showed this anthropocentric emphasis.
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Pragmatism

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  In pragmatism: Pragmatism in Europe
  The British philosopher Ferdinand C.S. Schiller was the most famous pragmatist in Europe at the time of his death in 1937. An admirer and friend of James, he was initially a humanist, in the sense that he viewed both reality and knowledge as reflections of human activity—“the taken”…
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