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Paul Kurtz will be long remembered as the late century’s pre- twentieth eminent philosophical defender of freethinking rationalism and skepticism, the scientific worldview to replace superstition and religion, the healthy ethics of humanism, and democracy’s foundation in secularism. Reason, science,
In Defense of Secular Humanism is a volume of collected essays by one of the leading exponents of secular humanism. It is a closely reasoned defense of one of the most venerable ethical,...
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- Tom Flynn is the editor of FREE INQUIRY.
- SECULAR HUMANISM’S PROPOSITION
- DRAWING CLEAR BOUNDARIES: PENCIL SKETCH
- “While atheism is a necessary condition for secular humanism, it is not a sufficient one.”
- WHAT ARE SECULAR HUMANIST ETHICS?
- THE HERITAGE OF SECULAR HUMANISM
- DRAWING CLEAR BOUNDARIES: THIS TIME, IN INK
- Atheism lends a valuable critique of outmoded, regressive religious systems. We welcome its vision of a universe upon
- SECULAR HUMANISM AND THE COUNCIL’S UNIQUE MISSION
than twenty years ago, someone from People for the American Way quipped that “defining secular humanism is like nailing Jello to a tree.” That phrase lives on, though a recent Web search reveals that “raising a teenager” has eclipsed “defining secular humanism” as the undertaking most often said to resemble nailing Jello to a tree. Undeterred, I’ll...
Those are perennial questions.2 Humanism matters too much for crucial questions about its nature to go unexplored. In addition, a political problem demands attention: is there a compelling reason why more than a dozen national secular humanist, religious humanist, atheist, and freethought organi-zations all need to exist in the United States? Some ...
Coined four decades ago by advertising executive Rosser Reeves, “unique selling proposition” means a distinctive and meaningful characteristic that only one among a cluster of competitors exhibits.4 It’s the thing that makes your message or product different from any other. If secular humanism exhibits such a characteristic, then that would almost ...
Unlike religious humanism, secular humanism eschews tran-scendentalism in any and all forms. Depending on the context, transcendentalism can mean outright mysticism, the “spir-itual” (itself a term with many meanings), or simply a rush toward emotional closure disproportionate to the knowable data. However defined, transcendentalism is rejected by ...
inspiring value systems that are both realistic and humane.
Secular humanism propounds a rational ethics based on human experience. It is consequentialist: ethical choices are judged by their results. Secular humanist ethics appeals to sci-ence, reason, and experience to justify its ethical principles. Observers can evaluate the real-world consequences of moral decisions and intersubjectively affirm their c...
Though different from atheism and religious humanism, secular humanism owes a great deal to both traditions. In fact, secular humanism is best understood as a synthesis of atheism and freethought, from which it derives its cognitive component, and religious humanism, from which it derives its emotional/affective component. Atheism and freethought t...
Secular humanism occupies one point on a spectrum of reformist orientations, between atheism on the “left” and religious humanism on the “right.” Drawing from all across this spectrum, it is a vigorous hybrid whose debt to its source traditions should never be forgotten.
which meaning was never imposed from above. But secular Atheism Secular Humanism Religious Humanism Figure 1. Nontraditional Stances on Religion: A Continuum humanism goes further, calling on humans to develop within the universe values of their own—as it were, from below. Further, secular humanism maintains that, through a process of value inquir...
Secular humanism indeed possesses a “unique selling prop-osition.” Its full richness cannot be captured by an umbrella organization that encompasses the value neutrality of athe-ism and the epistemological neutrality of religious humanism. Atheism and freethought are distinct positions that deserve to be represented by organizations of their own. T...
Apr 17, 2018 · Paul Kurtz. Routledge, Apr 17, 2018 - Philosophy - 401 pages. Paul Kurtz has been the dominant voice of secular humanism over the past thirty years. This compilation of his work reveals...
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- Routledge, 2018
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Sep 2, 2019 · Paul Kurtz devoted his life to articulating a coherent vision of secular humanism, one which was naturalistic, evidence-based, and humane. Consequentially, his views were often critical of contemporary religious claims.
May 19, 2014 · Abstract. Paul Kurtz will be long remembered as the late twentieth century’s pre-eminent philosophical defender of freethinking rationalism and skepticism, the scientific worldview to replace...
Oct 12, 2021 · What is secular humanism? : Kurtz, Paul, 1925- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. What is secular humanism? by. Kurtz, Paul, 1925- Publication date. 2006. Topics. Secularism, Humanism. Publisher. New York, N.Y. : Prometheus Books. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive.
