1. A person who possesses an absence of humanism. 2. One who forgoes the philosophy of humanism with the view that humanism is unsustainable in practice, owing to humanism’s underlying precept that nature must be sacrificed egregiously when any human, no matter how reckless, is under threat. See
pragmatism. 3. One who wishes nonviolently for a day when humans no longer exist. 4. One who denies the
stewards of the earth philosophy. 5. One who believes in a personal rather than shared communal responsibility for mankind.
As an ahumanist, John Felt that a large industrial hospital should be built on the open fields near Surrey was illogical and destructive.