Concept
Secular humanism
Overview
non-religious variant of humanism
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Since there was little in the apparent condition of the public mind, indicative of any tendency in this direction, my view of the immediate prospects of human improvement was not sanguine. More recently a spirit of free speculation has sprung up, giving a more encouraging prospect of the gradual mental emancipation of England; and concurring with the renewal under better auspices, of the movement for political…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
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In religion, hence, the conversion of the repressed array of interests into ideal value-forms is less radical and abstract than in philosophy, and less checked by fusion with existence than in art. Religion is, therefore, at one and the same time more carnal and less reasonable than philosophy and art. Its history and protagonists exhibit a closer kinship to what is called insanity[93]--that being, in essence, the…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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If “holy” means that which is not to be approached nor touched, save with ceremonial precautions and by specially anointed officials, then such things are holy in contemporary political life. As supernatural matters have progressively been left high and dry upon a secluded beach, the actuality of religious taboos has more and more gathered about secular institutions, especially those connected with the nationalistic…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
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Philosophers who discussed Secular humanism
- Feminism
- G. E. Moore
- Auguste Comte
- Sidney Hook
- Julian Huxley
- John Dewey
- Julian Baggini
- A. J. Ayer
- Henry Sidgwick
- Richard Dawkins
- Reform Judaism
- Philip Kitcher
- Richard Clyde Taylor
- Islam
- H. J. Blackham
- Harry Stopes-Roe
- Luc Ferry
Related ideas
- The Independent
- Christian humanism
- French Revolution
- Fundamentalism
- G. E. Moore
- John Rawls
- Auguste Comte
- Philosophy
- Establishment Clause
- Julian Huxley
- Immanuel Kant
- George Holyoake
- Atheism
- John Stuart Mill
- Separation of church and state
- Sociology
- Metaphysics
- American English
- Doctrine
- The Guardian
- Humanists International
- Netherlands
- Superstition
- Norway
Opposing perspectives
- Afterlife
- Atheism
- Paul Kurtz
- Religious skepticism
- Supernatural
- State atheism
- Agnostic atheism
- Negative and positive atheism
- A Secular Humanist Declaration
- Resacralization of nature
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- American English
- Book of Isaiah
- City of London
- Conway Hall Ethical Society
- England and Wales
- Establishment Clause
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
- Felix Adler (professor)
- Anna Wheeler (author)
- European Humanist Federation
- Self-help book
- William Johnson Fox
- Little, Brown and Company
- Moral particularism
- Finsbury Square
- Harry Stopes-Roe
- Golden Rule
- James Augustus Cotter Morison
- Kristen Bell
- Negative and positive atheism
- Vernon Lushington
- Francis Schaeffer