Znaniecki was a philosopher who opposed idealism and naturalism, proposing instead a methodology for social research based around the "humanistic coefficient", sometimes known as the humanist principle.

The Vulgaria is the more important of Horman's surviving works, a Latin textbook based on humanist principles published in 1519.

The book codifies in a pedagogical way the most fundamental humanist principles of human behavior.

It supports secular humanist ethical principles with its stated political aims being:

For him, the Enlightenment introduced a new principle behind education to challenge the classical humanist principle.

Christian humanism can be perceived as a philosophical union of Judeo-Christian ethics and humanist principles.

Bodin had a plan for a school on humanist principles in Toulouse, but failed to raise local support.

And sometimes - so elastic and compressive was the humanist principle - poet, scholar, essayist, philosopher, etc., all lived side by side in the same head.

Many different sources claim the Golden Rule as a humanist principle:

These works were important as they were among the first in England to incorporate humanist educational principles and standards of Latin with the older style of teaching materials.