RE: Dawkins loses humanist title
April 22, 2021 at 6:16 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2021 at 6:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We can agree with a persons criticism, and those criticisms can be accurate - and they might still be an issue for humanist ideology. I think that dawkins take on religious thinking is descriptive, but it's not a kosher take for humanism.
Freethinking questions is a term of art. Race realists and gender realists are asking freethinking questions, if you ask them. Yes, freethinking can be an exclusive enterprise to humanism in any state of affairs in which reality as it is or how it's asserted to be does not conform to reality as humanism asserts it should be. That's a feature, not a bug, imo.
Freethinking does not lead to humanism - humanism leads to humanism - it's the assertion that things should be some way - a beginning, a set of axioms, not a conclusion or product or, simply put, The Way Things Are™.
Is dawkins living up to that responsibility in his comments? Notice the question is not whether he's living up to freethought, or whether we agree or disagree with this or any other thing he's said, or whether biological males are biologically male.
Freethinking questions is a term of art. Race realists and gender realists are asking freethinking questions, if you ask them. Yes, freethinking can be an exclusive enterprise to humanism in any state of affairs in which reality as it is or how it's asserted to be does not conform to reality as humanism asserts it should be. That's a feature, not a bug, imo.
Freethinking does not lead to humanism - humanism leads to humanism - it's the assertion that things should be some way - a beginning, a set of axioms, not a conclusion or product or, simply put, The Way Things Are™.
Quote:a philosophy of life that, without theism or other supernatural beliefs, affirms the ability and responsibility of human beings to lead personal lives of ethical fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.https://web.archive.org/web/201006122114...t_Humanism
Is dawkins living up to that responsibility in his comments? Notice the question is not whether he's living up to freethought, or whether we agree or disagree with this or any other thing he's said, or whether biological males are biologically male.
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