RE: Atheists; what do you base your morals on?
March 12, 2013 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2013 at 4:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 12, 2013 at 3:47 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Humanism is a liberal movement. Do you know who John Rawls is or the concept of distributive justice?
from wikipedia:
"Secular humanism is a comprehensive life stance or world view which embraces human reason, metaphysical naturalism, altruistic morality and distributive justice, and consciously rejects supernatural claims, theistic faith and religiosity, pseudoscience, and perceived superstition.[52][53][54] It is sometimes referred to as Humanism (with a capital H and no qualifying adjective).
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is the world union of more than 100 Humanist, rationalist, irreligious, atheistic, Bright, secular, Ethical Culture, and freethought organizations in more than 40 countries. The "Happy Human" is the official symbol of the IHEU as well as being regarded as a universally recognised symbol for secular humanism."
Also from wiki, the very first line on the subject in fact (on humanism.....not secular humanism...like I said, you're mixing the dirty words).
"Humanism is a group of philosophies and ethical perspectives which emphasize the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers individual thought and evidence (rationalism, empiricism), over established doctrine or faith (fideism)."
I see very little to take issue with in the broadest sense, personally. Is it more the secular bit (an adjective - added to demonstrate the nuance and difference between humanism and secular humanism) that bothers you? If it weren't secular, but just humanism, would that sort out the problem?
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