RE: Free will and you.
March 15, 2016 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2016 at 1:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Humanism doesn't actually require agency in the same sense as we're discussing it, that's a subtle equivocation.
Humanism states that the things people decide, their agency, has value (particularly in relation to the things decreed by others such as "god" as in secular humanism), it does not make a proclamation on the nature of decision-making, or free will. More generally, it's a philosophy of goodwill towards other human beings. You can indeed be a humanist and not have -or- believe in free will.
The agency of men has greater value than the agency of a spirit in the matters of men, regardless of whether that agency is free, or not..in either the man or the spirits case.
Humanism states that the things people decide, their agency, has value (particularly in relation to the things decreed by others such as "god" as in secular humanism), it does not make a proclamation on the nature of decision-making, or free will. More generally, it's a philosophy of goodwill towards other human beings. You can indeed be a humanist and not have -or- believe in free will.
The agency of men has greater value than the agency of a spirit in the matters of men, regardless of whether that agency is free, or not..in either the man or the spirits case.
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