humanism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C29k4rHMdp8 Please discuss!

In practice, that is... I know self-identified secular humanists often say that their philosophy entails much more than atheism (for example, Stephen Law's outline), but it's hard to see that in practice. Look at these blogposts about the future of humanism. When you read them, they are all...

Sometimes I ponder this question and am left lapping at the dried remains of the tautology that life has whatever value we give it, or that the meaning of life is to live. Is there something more that attributes worth to each individual human life? Or is it all floating debris and lies? If I...

I have heard the argument that nonbelievers (atheists in particular) have no morality because they do not believe that god watches over them, or something like that. (Yes, there ARE the atrocities in the Old Testament and whatnot, but that is a bit of an ad hominem tu quoque fallacy). Are...

A position statement (which isn’t so much mine as something that occurred to me, and that every premise of which, as well as its conclusion is absolutely debatable and might be fun to debate). 1) There is no way to prove, logically, that human life has any intrinsic worth, that the weak and...

Proposing humanist heresy

At this point, I am NOT 100% sure if I am going to go to this. But I am severely tempted. They are calling it "Humanism 2.0". But, despite that lame title, it looks very nice: http://www.americanhumanist.org/What_We_Do/Annual_Conference It's the American Humanist Association's 69'th Annual...

URL: [The Lion in Winter: The Exile of Paul Kurtz] Excerpt: Blutoskitorial: (no comment)

yeah right....:rolleyes: ironic is one word for it... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7818980.stm

One of the commoner qualities in atheistic thought has to be individuality. Personally, I value this very highly - it's important to me that I can make up my own mind about the big questions and be prepared to think differently. I've always considered atheism as not 'a belief system' but 'not...

The James Randi Educational Foundation forum presents itself as "a place to discuss skepticism, critical thinking, the paranormal and science in a friendly and lively way." This statement reminded me of something that Michael Martin wrote called "Friendly Atheism". In his essay, so...

Yeah, what the thread title says. There seems to be quite an overlap between the two and I'm kind of confused. I was reading some pamphlets about both philosophies and I'm having a hard time determining what the core differences are. Help?

So, after three plus years of being a Unitarian, I've finally been indirectly challenged about my philosophical stance. Without getting into too much of the back story, I was part of a conversation where we were discussing a woman's philosophical stance. She described herself, in part, as a...

A New Humanism The term ‘humanism’ became prominent during the Renaissance. It was developed at the end of the Middle Ages; resulting from the revival of classical letters. This rebirth focused upon humans as the center of an effort to reassert self-determination. This early humanism focused...

I'm looking for one. Their philosophy sounds like something I 100% agree with on the surface, but of course that's their own side of things. Are there any common criticisms of it that I don't know about? From skeptics or "religious" people? Rather than having to say "I'm an atheist" then being...

How is a secular humanist different from any other atheist? EDIT: I was going to put this in the religion forum, but now I can't delete it. Could any of the mods move it for me?

What does it mean to be a humanists? Is humanism a religion?

http://www.secularhumanism.org/conference/index.htm This is from the program of a Council of Secular Humanism conference, One Nation Without God? Secularism, Society, and Justice which is coming up 11-13 April, 2003 in Washington, D.C.: Peter Beinart is editor of The New Republic and author of...