Humanization is a concept that occurs, in fact, from the Latin denomination of man - "human". Thus, this term can literally be translated as "humanizing". And that it is applicable to any action and process, we will now be convinced.
The birth of humanism
This concept is born during the Renaissance. Centuries of medieval Scholasticism and Christian dogma dictated that the highest interest of man should be religion. All aspirations must necessarily have been connected with the prayers of divine forgiveness and the search for the purification of man before God. Literature, art and all other branches of art for a long time were subordinated exclusively to the church. Moreover, she was subjected to all spheres of human life. The interests of the Church were dictated by the crusades and European revolutions, interpretation of the history and laws of the surrounding world. The life path of kings and peasants was determined by spiritual leaders who for centuries managed social life in Europe. In such conditions, a person was seen as an insignificant, insignificant dust in the world. The Church was concerned with much more global issues of the world order, against which background simple earthly joys were insignificant. Moreover, they often contradicted church dogmas and were illegal. With the Renaissance, prominent European cultural figures, such as Boccaccio, Petrarch, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas More and others, returned interest not only to Antiquity, but also to the person himself, his body and personality. Sculpture and art, which depicts a person in all his virtues and demerits, have blossomed wildly. Thus, humanization is the growth of interest in a person and his personality. At the same time, the epoch creates new philosophical, socio-political and economic trends. Great geographical discoveries, the crisis of feudalism, the initial accumulation of capital and the complication of social stratification of society lead to the emergence of ideas related to the rights of each individual. In this regard, humanization is a new formulation of the interests of a particular person before a higher goal, priority over all the others. Thus, personal rights to life, liberty and private property were born. The right to elect authority and the opportunity to be elected and so on. This process has made the human personality the highest value and priority.
Humanism and other civilizations
Attentive reader, probably already thought: why did not humanism was born where there were no such strict dogmas as in Christianity? Societies with less strict regulation of life, of course, were. However, humanization is still a European child. First of all, because the concept of the value of one particular person originated here. Individualism as an integral feature of humanism has never existed either in China, in the Arab world, or among Mesoamerican civilizations. And he came to these continents only with colonialism. However, as to how much he got accustomed to it, sociologists and historians argue today.
Current state
With the development of social relations and social thought, humanism as a doctrine Moved further and more and more enveloped our civilization. In the modern world, humanization is the arrangement of all spheres of activity with maximum security for the people involved in it. Safety is again not only for life and health, but also for personal rights. Thus, the humanization of labor presupposes the improvement of the management of labor activity. The goal of this process is to provide the employee with the widest possible opportunities to disclose his potential. At the same time, it must ensure the safety of the labor process, the fair distribution of results of activities and the democratic management of it. In turn, the humanization of criminal law is a lengthy process that is studied by specialists and consists in mitigating punishments based on the assumption that the offender has certain rights and can be rehabilitated with softer methods. An example is the abolition of the death penalty in many countries of the world.