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Humanism

Philosophical school of thought

For the philosophy during the Renaissance, see Renaissance humanism. For other uses, see Humanism (disambiguation).

"Humanist" and "Humanistic" redirect here. For the album, see Humanistic (album). For other uses, see Humanist (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Humeanism.

Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

The meaning of the term "humanism" has changed according to successive intellectual movements that have identified with it. During the Italian Renaissance, ancient works inspired Catholic Italian scholars, giving rise to the Renaissance humanism movement. During the Age of Enlightenment, humanistic values were reinforced by advances in science and technology, giving confidence to humans in their exploration of the world. By the early 20th century, organizations dedicated to humanism flourished in Europe and the United States, and have since expanded worldwide

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NEW: The Humanist Special Collection at Meadville Lombard: the Humanist Special Collection houses archival materials that document the growth and impact of humanism within both Unitarian Universalism and the larger world. The Humanist Special Collection contains personal papers of major humanists, the records of humanist organizations and congregations, and collections centered around specific themes and events tied to humanism.

The following is an excerpt from former AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt’s Creating Change Through Humanism (Humanist Press, 2015):

Humanism has an impressive history. With deep roots in the early Greek philosophers and in Eastern thinkers well before them, humanism grew during the Renaissance. It continued to develop throughout the Reformation, Enlightenment, and scientific revolution and began to take its present shape in the late nineteenth century.

Beginning in 1927, a number of Unitarian professors and students at the University of Chicago who had moved away from theism organized the Humanist Fellowship. Soon they launched the New Hum

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Humanist History

Contemporary Humanism draws its lineage from a branching intellectual genealogy that includes South Asian atheists, classical philosophers, medieval Muslim scholars, and Enlightenment culture. Like their forebears, modern Humanists and atheists concern themselves with rationality, science, the perceptible world, and human life, rather than with potential divine realms or deities.

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There is a proud tradition of seeking goodness and wisdom without a God. Although the term Humanism has been used to describe this endeavor for only about a century, a number of different historical settings show how and where the key beliefs and motifs of modern Humanism emerged.

Three millennia ago, the doubts of impious South Asians crystallized into what are probably the world’s first completely atheistic schools of thought: the Lokayata and Carvaka. These like-minded groups of philosophers observed that no one has ever been able to prove that he or she has witnessed a miracle, nor could any confirm that a god has ever appeared on earth or that anyone has e