41. Secular Humanism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Secular humanism is that branch of philosophy that advocates the use of Secular humanism is distinguished from the broader category of humanism in that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

Wikimedia needs your help in the final days of its fund drive. See our fundraising page The Red Cross and other charities also need your help. Secular humanism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Secular humanism is that branch of philosophy that advocates the use of reason, compassion, scientific inquiry, ethics justice and equality in addressing issues of a worldview centred upon human beings. The term was originally coined in the 20th century to make a clear distinction from " Christian humanism Secular humanism is distinguished from the broader category of humanism in that the secular humanist prefers free inquiry over dogmatic wisdom —upholding the scientific method for inquiry, while rejecting revealed knowledge and theistic morality , though not necessarily faith . Secular humanism has appeal to atheists agnostics freethinkers rationalists ... skeptics , and materialists , as well as to some Buddhists and Confucians Its basic tenets may be simplified as: Humans have value and can solve human problems; Science, free speech , rational thought, democracy, and freedom in the arts go together; There is nothing supernatural Contents Secular humanism today Modern and historical references Notable secular humanists Secular humanism manifestos ... edit Secular humanism today Secular humanist organizations are found in all parts of the earth: India China Australia Europe ... North America , etc.

42. Council For Secular Humanism The Freest Nation In The World? An article by Peter Singer, examining the right of free individuals to make endof-life choices. http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/singer_20_3.html

43. CU Humanism Society Includes background information, details of upcoming and past events, a list of books available for loan, and the society constitution. http://www.srcf.ucam.org/hmmsoc/

Cambridge University Atheist and Agnostic Society Introduction Events Library Recent ... Further Info Introduction CUAAS was formerly HmmSoc, the Cambridge University Atheist and Agnostic Society. We changed our name simply because most students didn't know what 'humanism' is! So... Humanism is based on a belief in the worth of Mankind, which humanists believe is capable of solving its own problems. Humanists strive to encourage people to look at the world rationally, rejecting all forms of superstition. Although many members of CUAAS believe that rationalism involves a rejection of religion this is not the official policy of the society, which encourages people of all religious persuasions to join and argue their views, providing that they base their arguments on reason. CUAAS's aims are: To allow atheists, agnostics and other non-religious people in Cambridge (mainly, though not exclusively, members of the University) to meet each other and debate moral, scientific and political issues. To inform members about approaches to life that aren't based on religion through a full and varied selection of talks. To encourage students to approach issues on the basis of reason, not superstition.

44. Lecture 39: The Renaissance: Humanism Lecture notes and assignments, giving a good overview of this period of history. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/brians_syllabus/39.html

Lecture 39: The Italian Renaissance: Humanism Links for Web assignment (Duiker 346-355; Brians: 261-265, 271-272) Questions about Duiker: *What two regions contributed most to world trade and civilization in the period just before the Renaissance in the late 14th century? *Who were the Medici? What were the major concerns of Machiavelli in The Prince? *What are the main characteristics of Italian Renaissance Humanism? What were the main results of the spread of printing in Europe? Question about Pico Della Mirandola *According to Pico, what qualities make man great? Question about Petrarch *What qualities does Petrarch ascribe to Laura? Who is more vividly depicted in this poem, the lover or his beloved? Question about Machiavelli *What good qualities does Machiavelli say a prince should seem to have? Lecture topics: Background Humanism Petrarch Boccaccio Pico Della Mirandola Machiavelli Technological innovations Supplementary materials: Annenberg/CPB Renaissdance Project Joan of Arc The Black Death Classical and Christian Antisemitism ... Selections from the correspondence of Petrarch Machiavelli: The Prince Decameron Web Gutenberg Bible Humanism and the Scientific Revolution ... Return to syllabus

45. Secular Web: Atheism, Agnosticism, Naturalism, Skepticism And Secularism Agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and rationalism on the Web http://www.infidels.org

Whole Web Secular Web (infidels.org) Forums (iidb.org) KATRINA RELIEF Home Search ... Moral Relativism and the Catholic Church John Bice Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History James Carroll A Cafeteria Pope Jan Brazill Logo design by Christopher Lord

46. The Ethical Manifold Current articles by leaders in the Ethical Culture movement that explore the philosophy and ideals of Ethical Culture and Ethical humanism. http://www.ethicalmanifold.net/

The Ethical Manifold Commentary by Ethical Culture Leaders on issues of the day and on practical ethical living. The Ethical Manifold is a collection of sites by Ethical Culture Leaders with writings on current issues and practical living. You may also find book reviews, short inspirational pieces, writings suitable for public and private ceremonies, organizational resources and items from Ethical Culture history. In the column on the right, you'll find recent article titles plus pages with past articles listed by topic. You'll also find direct links to other sites in this collection and to related sites about Ethical Culture and Ethical Humanism. Below, you'll find excerpts from recent articles by Leaders posted on sites in this collection, with links to find the full article. You'll also find excerpts and links for some recently posted items from the pages of Ethical Culture history. Following those are announcements about this site Around the Ethical Manifold Empty Values When Newt Gingrich was head of the Republican Party, he and his cohort crafted a list of carefully selected words... Read more ...

47. Marxist Humanism Archive of Marxist humanism. Marxist humanism emerged partly as a result of disillusionment with the “state socialism” of the Eastern European states, http://www.marxists.org/subject/humanism/

MIA Subjects : Marxist Humanism: Marxist Humanism An index to the writings an biographies of Marxist-Humanist writers. See Humanism in the M.I.A. Encyclopedia. In 1965, Erich Fromm published An International Symposium of Socialist Humanism , possibly stimulated by the emergence of the Praxis New Left Review in England (E. P. Thompson, Raphael Samuel, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Ralph Miliband, Alasdair MacIntyre, Isaac Deutscher and John Saville) and people like C. Wright Mills in the U.S. and German Greens like Rudolph Bahro. Tito's regime had been relatively liberal and independent of Stalin , later reflected in the Prague Spring , and in the more liberal regime of Edward Gierek in Poland, and partly in response to the same social forces which were growing up in the capitalist countries and would burst forth in 1968 through the student uprisings beginning in Paris, and the failure of the Communist Parties to adequately respond to these sentiments. (See Eurocommunism for an alternative but not dissimilar response.) Louis Althusser, a

48. Eclectic Church Home Promoting a theology that advocates humanism as a universal concept of Divine inspiration. Combining many religious sources. http://www.eclecticchurch.org/index.htm

WELCOME to the Religious Home Page Seeking God from a different perspective Eclectic Church SITE CONTENT click above for a complete indexing of this site A Message For Our Visitors Other Recent additions of interests The Tragedy of Teri Schiavo We at the Eclectic Church would like to point out that people can be supportive of our brave and dedicated troops and still be critical of the leaders who put them there. The deaths and suffering continue to mount with no accountability on the part of leaders who misinformed, miscalculated, and misled this nation into an unnecessary aggressive military action. For those who truly respect life this is a travesty. We urge our readers to pray for our troops and to ask God to guide us to a leadership with the wisdom to bring this bloodshed to a workable solution. We also encourage you to speak out and write your elected officials. There can be no way all this death and destruction can be justified in the name of God or justice. Our hearts go out to all those who have lost a loved one in this conflict! Winner of the 2005 "Spirit

49. Humanism The third chapter in the learning module, Italian Renaissance / Early Modern. This chapter discusses the historical development and philosophical character http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REN/HUMANISM.HTM

humanism as both a program and a philosophy. Textbooks will tell you that the humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the dignity of humanity, and that humanists shifted intellectual emphasis off of theology and logic to specifically human studies. In pursuing this program, the argument goes, the humanists literally created the European Renaissance and paved the way for the modern, secular world. studia humanitatis . The studia humanitatis originated in the mddle ages and were all those educational disciplines outside of theology and natural science. Humanism was not opposed to logic, as is commonly held, but opposed to the particular brand of logic known as Scholasticism. In point of fact, the humanists actively revised the science of logic. Humanism, then, really begins during the middle ages in Europe; while the humanist scholars of the Renaissance made great strides and discoveries in this field, humanistic studies were really a product of middle ages. Not only that, the "rediscovery" of the classical world which was the hallmark of Renaissance humanism in reality began much earlier in the middle ages; as Europeans began to see themselves as a single ethnic group with a common origin in the middle ages, the recovery of classical literature, both Latin and Greek, became a concern for all the medieval centers of learning. studia humanitatis consisted of more or less five disciplines drawn from the classical educational curriculum, called the

50. Religious Humanism An article by Mason Olds describing Religious humanism. http://www.humanistsofutah.org/1996/artapril96.htm

Religious Humanism April 1996 What is Religious Humanism? I can offer here only the sketchiest outline of the most salient features of this distinctive approach to religion, which originated in the U.S. among Unitarians at about the time of the First World War. The movement eventually embraced two groups: one consisted of some Unitarians, Universalists, and Ethical Culturalists; the other was a group of academics. Notable among them were Roy Wood Sellars, a member of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan, A. Eustace Hayden, professor of comparative religion at the University of Chicago, and John Dewey, a member of the philosophy department at Columbia University. All three signed a very controversial document in 1933 entitled A Humanist Manifesto and all three wrote books contributing to the literary canon of religious humanism. The development, of course, was far more complex and less progressive than I have suggested, but the early religious humanists were historicists and nominalists. Sellars, for instance, said, "Once we have cut the supposed bonds with the supernatural world, we see that religion is, and always has been a social product." They also thought that the metaphors of past religions were dead, and that the new metaphors created by the religious humanists provided an appropriate direction for religion in their time. The religious humanists were convinced that religion was created by humans, not gods, who always speak the words of humans. These humanists provided a functional interpretation of religion: it was created by humans to serve certain purposes. Hayden spoke of religion as "the mother of dreams." The task is to impose human purpose upon the cosmic process, to shape the course of the flowing stream of life with its millions of conflicting drives, so that it will converge toward the practical expression of creative idealism. Sellars maintained the function of religion was to preserve and further human values. Generally, humanists thought of religion as intelligent participation in the human quest for the good life in a shared world.

51. Humanism, Humanists, Secular Humanism, Secular Humanists, What Secular Humanists Central tenets of this group, based on the questions in the BeliefO-Matic quiz. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8040_1.html

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52. Secular Philosophies -- Beliefnet.com Message boards, links, and information dealing with agnosticism, atheism, and humanism. http://beliefnet.com/index/index_10043.asp

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53. Progressive Humanism--A World View Based On Science And Common Sense About Progressive humanism. Click here for a description of what we stand humanism and Race. The humanist deplores all discrimination based on racial http://www.progressivehumanism.com/

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54. Slavery, Humanism, & The Bible In 1863, C. F. W. Walther of The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod attacks mancentered theology and discusses the believer's remaining true to his vocation, whether slave or free. http://www.reclaimingwalther.org/articles/cfw00002.htm

Selections from Lehre und Wehre By C.F.W. Walther Translated by Erika Bullmann Flores The following selections were from several issues of Lehre und Wehre (Doctrine and Defense), published in 1863. They have been pieced together from the various issues of the magazine for ease in reading. Citations for the source documents appear after the endnotes. Some introductory comments about this article may be found in an article about church polity by Rev. Jack Cascione. Foreword The Old Lutheran Scholars About Slavery A Later Lutheran Theologian About Slavery Foreword. It is an irrefutable fact that humanism has not only supplanted Christianity among a large part of the current population, it has also infected Christian theology in its very inner core, has poisoned and weakened it. We define humanism as the belief in a human ideal, a belief that man within himself has the ability to develop into a state of completeness This humanism is as old as the fallen world itself. As soon as man had fallen away from God, he became aware of the bitter consequences of his sin, of the curse under which God had placed this earth because of him. Despite all that still had remained for man, he felt dissatisfied, unhappy, and wretched. However, instead of recognizing his sin as the cause of his wretchedness, seeking to return to God and His help, he saw the consequences themselves as the cause, and deemed that he could achieve happiness by gaining what this world has to offer. creature

55. Newhumanist.com This site is dedicated to humanism and humanist thought, essays and poetry. A personal rather than organizational site. http://www.newhumanist.com/

newhumanist.com Welcome. This site is dedicated to the study of Humanism, a philosophy that affirms the dignity of each individual and supports maximum individual freedom within the framework of social and planetary responsibility. Visit our new "Freeze Frame" blog or click on the pictures below to check out the rest of the site. The "War on Terrorism" Mass Media Criticism The Cuba Advocate Online News Briefs and Action Alerts Manifest Destiny Compilation Progressive Links Youth Essays Humor Music Poetry Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 webmaster. If the concept of humanism, participatory democracy and social justice offends you, you may exit by clicking here

56. HUUmanists Formerly The Friends of Religious humanism, an affiliate organization of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Founded as the Fellowship of Religious Humanists to advance humanism within the UnitarianUniversalist denomination and to promote religious humanism in general. http://www.americanhumanist.org/hsfamily/huumanist.html

Home The Humanist Family >>HUUmanists HUUmanists The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell Formerly The Friends of Religious Humanism, an affiliate organization of the the Unitarian Universalist Association, the HUUmanists was founded by Edwin H. Wilson, Lester Mondale, and others in 1962 as the "Fellowship of Religious Humanists" to advance humanism within the Unitarian-Universalist denomination and to promote religious humanism in general. Our stated purpose is: “To enhance, promote, practice and enjoy humanism in liberal religion, and to provide a continental organization for those who consider themselves humanists within the UUA. To this end, HUUmanists shall defend and protect freedom of thought in Unitarian Universalism, arrange programs, forums and lectures, encourage humanist writing to give voice to humanistic values, encourage the establishment of local humanist groups, maintain a humanist presence on the internet, and hold discussion groups, seminars, workshops, and conferences ” We have a variety of other books and pamphlets available. A list is available upon request.

57. Renaissance Humanism humanism is the term applied to the predominant ntellectual and literary currents of the period 1400 to 1650. The return to favor of the classics stimulated http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/humanism.html

Renaissance Humanism Humanism is the term generally applied to the predominant social philosophy and intellectual and literary currents of the period from 1400 to 1650. The return to favor of the pagan classics stimulated the philosophy of secularism, the appreciation of worldly pleasures, and above all intensified the assertion of personal independence and individual expression. Zeal for the classics was a result as well as a cause of the growing secular view of life. Expansion of trade, growth of prosperity and luxury, and widening social contacts generated interest in worldly pleasures, in spite of formal allegiance to ascetic Christian doctrine. Men thus affected the humanists welcomed classical writers who revealed similar social values and secular attitudes. Historians are pretty much agreed on the general outlines of those mental attitudes and scholarly interests which are assembled under the rubric of humanism. The most fundamental point of agreement is that the humanist mentality stood at a point midway between medieval supernaturalism and the modern scientific and critical attitude. Medievalists see humanism as the terminal product of the Middle Ages. Modern historians are perhaps more apt to view humanism as the germinal period of modernism. Perhaps the most we can assume is that the man of the Renaissance lived, as it were, between two worlds. The world of the medieval Christian matrix, in which the significance of every phenomenon was ultimately determined through uniform points of view, no longer existed for him. On the other hand, he had not yet found in a system of scientific concepts and social principles stability and security for his life. In other words, Renaissance man may indeed have found himself suspended between faith and reason.

58. Corliss Lamont Website Resource page featuring a short biography and numerous downloads, including full text of The Philosophy of humanism. http://www.corliss-lamont.org/

Welcome to the Corliss Lamont Website! Contents The Life of Corliss Lamont The Philosophy of Humanism, Eighth Edition Lover's Credo: Poems of Love The Affirmative Ethics of Humanism ... Contact Information The Life of Corliss Lamont Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) is a 20th century American hero whose independent thinking challenged prevailing ideas in philosophy, economics, religion, patriotism, world peace and the exercise of our cherished civil liberties. Corliss Lamont was born to Wall Street wealth, yet he championed the cause of the working class, and was derided as a "Socialist" and a "traitor to his class". Corliss Lamont's Humanist belief that earthlings have evolved without supernatural intervention and are responsible for their own survival on this planet caused traditionalists to label him a "godless atheist". Corliss Lamont's patriotic insistence that the United States maintain a productive relationship with the Soviet Union in the face of prevailing rabid anti-communist hysteria earned him the accusation by Senator Joseph McCarthy of being "un-American". [See Philip Wittenberg (ed.), The Lamont Case: History of a Congressional Investigation, Corliss Lamont and the McCarthy Hearings

59. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Leonard Tow humanism in Medicine Awards presented by The Arnold P. Gold Foundation The Gold humanism Honor Society A national society recognizing and http://humanism-in-medicine.org/

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation advances humanism in medicine, perpetuating the tradition of the caring doctor. Through innovative medical education, we promote and affirm more compassionate medical care and caregivers. Quick Links What we fund Applying for a Grant Recent grants Special Initiatives Awards/Recognition Ceremonies/Rituals Caring Hospital Communities Humanism Research Center Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Awards presented by The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Interim report click here Final report click here The Gold Humanism Honor Society A national society recognizing and supporting humanistic exemplars in medicine learn more Gold Doc Stories of humanistic physicians learn more Sign In Please sign our guestbook for a chance to win Dr. Jerome Groopman's book Second Opinions in our monthly drawing. 619 Palisade Ave. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (201) 567-7999 goldfdtn@gold-foundation.org

60. Michael Servetus - SIS Bringing together people who are committed to foster the spirit of humanism, tolerance of ideas, and respect for the rights of the individual by preserving and promoting the Michael Servetus Heritage as intellectual giant, model of integrity, and standardbearer in the struggle for freedom of conscience. In English and Spanish. http://www.servetus.org/

Events Agenda News About Servetus Recent Books Biography ... Servetus Web Mail Write your email below Subscribe to the Newsletter window.open('pop-up.htm', 'PopUp', config="height=310, width=375, toolbar=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=no, resizable=no, location=no, directories=no, status=no") Our purpose is to bring together people who are committed to foster the spirit of Humanism, tolerance of ideas and respect for the rights of the individual by preserving and promoting the Michael Servetus Heritage as intellectual giant, model of integrity and standard-bearer in the struggle for freedom of conscience. Date: 30/05/2005 Language: Spanish + information Pasajes de la Historia: Miguel Servet Date: 18/05/2005 Language: Spanish El fantástico programa radiofónico "La Rosa de los Vientos", en las madrugadas de Onda Cero, dedica su sección Pasajes de la Historia a narrar la vida y obra de Miguel Servet. El Director del programa, Juan Antonio Cebrián es el narrador de este relato.

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