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Humanism is more alive than ever. The last century, ideally opened by the end of the First World War, can be considered the age of the spiritual crisis of Europe and the West but also as the century of humanism(s) and of their return to the intellectual and cultural scene: one can speak here of pedagogical humanism, Christian humanism, Marxist humanism, existential humanism, Anglo-American humanism… To this list we must add the diverse reactions to humanism, including the antihumanisms of the twentieth century and the posthumanisms and transhumanisms of the twenty-first. With regard to this return, what can the category of humanism mean for ethics? How can we examine it? Is humanism (still) relevant for ethics today?