Through this framework, he shows how humanism today can offer something of the ceremony and symbolic depth of traditional ...

WORDS which are spelled with a capital letter are peculiarly dangerous to thought. One commonly uses them to designate a complex of ideas which has never been adequately analyzed, and their meaning ...

The modern use of the term arose, on the other hand, as a result of the theory of evolution, and it is chiefly employed by those who feel some temperamental repugnance to the nineteenth century’s ...

Modern America pays little attention to humanists’ contributions to Western culture and the advancement of world civilization. Throughout history, humanism has explored the potential value and ...

Near the start of her account of humanism, Sarah Bakewell draws an important distinction. Anti-humanists, she writes, despise the material world and seek either to escape it using religion or remake ...