Word: humanisme
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Lately some humanists have felt an urge to formalize their beliefs. Last week, in the quiet lecture halls of the University of Amsterdam, 250 delegates from Europe and the U.S. met for the first International Congress on Humanism and Ethical Culture. In the auditorium, a British lady asked her Dutch...
To streamline the religious approach, Huxley outlined a new faith of the future: "Evolutionary humanism . . . firm yet flexible, simple yet rich and capable of development." He continued: "Man has the possibility of guiding change by means of conscious purpose in the light of rational experience . . . Man's past includes...
After Huxley's talk the humanists sat down to evaluate his thesis. There was vague disagreement. Some felt that any religion-even a humanist variety-is unscientific. Others doubted that evolutionary humanism would readily attract converts. A French delegate put his finger on a traditional humanist problem. "What troubles...
A Sad Episode. Savonarola was in the tradition of the great Medieval ascetics, an anachronistic protest against Renaissance humanism. Discussing the newly revived ancient classics, he wrote: "The only good thing which we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against...
The life of Charles Francis Potter stands for religious liberalism carried about as far as it can go-if not farther. It also stands for a small but significant segment of U.S. religious history. Raised as a Fundamentalist and proceeding from the Baptist ministry through Unitarianism and Universalism to the...