(n.) One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(2) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(3) Ten of the 16 primary 16PF scores were significantly different and generally described an altruistic but assertive and venturesome propensity to manage others.
(4) Whereas some studies have shown that negative mood leads to increases in altruistic action, others have shown the reverse.
(5) A two-locus genetic model is studied in which one locus controls the tendency of individuals to act altruistically toward siblings and the other locus controls the mating habits of females.
(6) As the way to achievement, it comes into a conflict with the fear of failure, with the co-operation advantages and with the altruistic human drives.
(7) It is shown that W. D. Hamilton's condition of increases in inclusive fitness due to altruistic interactions among kin expresses the structural instability of populations against the evolution of altruistic behavior.
(8) A simple model shows that this can lead to the selection of "altruistic" traits that favor the fitness of the group over that of the individual.
(9) "It's what you do when you have money in the bank and now there is no money in the bank, that kind of pan-tolerance will contract, because it's too altruistic for hard times."
(10) Consequences include overwhelming demand for mammography; problems with optimum response by radiology; limited availability of the examination, especially to the socioeconomically disadvantaged; self-referral for mammography by unqualified physicians for less than altruistic reasons; and unrealistic expectations of mammography by women, physicians, and lawyers.
(11) In Experiment II, the combined effect of a pair of observed materials (positive or negative altruistic content) was examined.
(12) "Of the altruistic instincts, veneration is not the most developed at the present day; but I hold strongly with the statement that it is a sign of a dry age when the great men of the past are held in light esteem".
(13) Of course the motivation for visualising your energy use doesn't have to be for altruistic environmental reasons.
(14) While mental toughness, and high self-esteem and confidence may seem like a good thing, they also can have an insidious flip-side – namely, narcissistic as opposed to more altruistic, empathy driven motives that better serve the masses.
(15) What was perceived as altruistic "adoption" by the penguins was actually closer to "kidnapping", it transpired.
(16) Traditionally, Hindu religion has given sanction to certain altruistic suicides.
(17) Remember you're human after all While much of the above are technical solutions to prevent you being hacked and scammed, hacking done well is really the skill of tricking human beings, not computers, by preying on their gullibility, taking advantage of our trust, greed or altruistic impulses.
(18) Instead, the observed pattern was what would be expected if empathy evokes altruistic motivation to reduce the victim's need.
(19) Yet this restriction obviously limits the availability of already scarce donor organs, and curtails the opportunities for altruistic action on the part of those who, in any given case, are not genetically related to the recipient.
(20) It has its roots in conflicts of interest between human beings, and in their conflicting urges to behave either selfishly or altruistically.
Humanist
Definition:
(n.) One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.
(n.) One who purposes the study of the humanities, or polite literature.
(n.) One versed in knowledge of human nature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(2) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
(3) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(4) Jaspers thus shows how, within the mind of every medical person, the researcher contests with the physician and the technician with the humanist.
(5) Richy Thompson, director of public affairs and policy at the British Humanist Association, welcomed the study, but said covert online access to abortion pills wasn’t enough.
(6) The authors believe that organizations have a responsibility to introduce, diffuse, and manage computer technology in such a way that it is congruent with the principles of sound, supportive, and humanistic management.
(7) In Omaha, Nebraska, several atheist and humanist groups planned to visit the local Islamic Center on Saturday to express their support .
(8) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
(9) After the war, Auerbach notes mournfully, the standardisation of ideas, and greater and greater specialisation of knowledge gradually narrowed the opportunities for the kind of investigative and everlastingly inquiring kind of philological work that he had represented; and, alas, it's an even more depressing fact that since Auerbach's death in 1957 both the idea and practice of humanistic research have shrunk in scope as well as in centrality.
(10) Consequently, they must, on one hand, orient themselves in accordance with the above-mentioned demands, and collaborate with the scientists of the humanistic disciplines, on the other.
(11) She should record, analyse and share her experiences with others, thus helping to develop more humanistic and scientific modes of care.
(12) Patient-satisfaction surveys have been used frequently to assess the humanistic behaviors and skills of internal medicine housestaff.
(13) In an extensive survey of postgraduate physicians in two teaching hospitals (N = 141) for their humanistic attitudes, values and behavior, all ratings of physicians' humanistic performance, including physicians' own scores on self-report measures, supervising faculty, nurses and patient ratings, were modestly but significantly correlated with each other.
(14) Humanistic caring included creating-the-new, showing-the-way, working-with-others, and taking-care-of-the-environment.
(15) He also stresses the need for new types of research such as quality assurance, medical audit and humanistic studies (qualitative research, descriptive ethical studies and philosophical enquiries).
(16) Reevaluation of spiritual distress and spirituality must come in the form of holistic and humanistic approaches in nursing education and research, integration of the spiritual dimension within nursing curricula, and recognition of multidisciplinary, global perspectives of the spiritual phenomenon.
(17) It appears that the use of one rating group is not sufficient to achieve an accurate assessment of residents' humanistic skills.
(18) The British Humanist Association (BHA), which made the original complaint to the OSA, said the school did not remove the "service" provision from its online admissions guide after the OSA ruling but added a note saying parents should assume it would not be in place for 2014 admissions.
(19) I only realised the depth and value of the idea via Hannah Arendt, and her theory that all humanist politics starts on the assumption of the infinite preciousness of every human life.
(20) These stereotypes can also lead to gross errors in clinical management of the sexual concerns of elderly patients and to treatment of the elderly with less than humanistic concerns for their sexual needs.