Tag Archives: philosophy
Secular GodsIs there anything we humans love that doesn’t have a downside? I don’t think so. Since the Enlightenment, naturalists have sought nonreligious, rational answers to our unending quest for optimal living. But it was one of the greatest philosophers of
Published in the May / June 2011 Humanist
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 | Plato, Romance, and Self-InquiryWe all know the unexamined life isn’t worth living (or so says Socrates), but is the unloving life even worth examining?
Published in the January / February 2011 Humanist
Tagged dualism, freud, lgbt, love, philosophy, plato, psychology, romance, sexuality, symposium 1 Comment |
The HUMANIST Interview with Rebecca Newberger GoldsteinAuthor and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s new novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Pantheon, 2010), follows the past and present of one Cass Seltzer, a professor of the philosophy of religion who Time magazine
Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
Tagged academia, atheism, book, goldstein, intellectualism, interview, literature, logic, philosophy, politics 2 Comments |
The Convictions of a HumanistThe great humanist lion, Paul Kurtz, was honored by the American Humanist Association on Saturday, June 9, 2007, at its annual conference in Portland, Oregon. The following is adapted from his speech in acceptance of the AHA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. |
A Humanist Manifesto Turns Seventy-FiveAdolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as president of the United States in March, Mohandas Gandhi carried out a hunger strike in May on behalf of the lower castes of India, the |
The Post-Theological UmbrellaSurely one of the biggest barriers keeping humanism from being a more prominent force in the United States is its nontheistic character. Two relevant surveys provide compelling proof that Americans just don’t feel good about openly rejecting belief in a
Published in the January / February 2008 Humanist
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 | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons EverythingIts ability to withstand an assault by Christopher Hitchens is one testament to the hardiness of religious faith. (I wouldn’t want him mad at me.) A famously adept debater, armed with wit and erudition, Hitchens can be persuasive even when
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
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