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Humanism must be a resource for contemporary ethical reflection, for what could ethics say if it did not put humanity at the centre? However, our experiences bear witness to our renewed failure to honour the human person. Always “the worshipper of gold and the strangler of the weak”, human beings have become increasingly inhuman, to the point today of destroying their “common home”. Nevertheless, the examples of humanity that one can glean from art, from literature, and even from daily life, progressively reveal that the “human” is found when man yields to his secret tendency to go toward the humanity of the other and of others, the only means by which he finds his own humanity. “The love of the life of others” reveals true autonomy. In Jesus, crucified and resurrected, we “behold the man”.