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April 29th, 2011, 05:50 AM
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#21 | | What we have, we hold
Joined: Mar 2011 From: 6th Century Constantinople Posts: 3,334 |
Humanism isn't dead. It's just a little passé.
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April 29th, 2011, 06:14 AM
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#22 | | Spiritual Ronin
Joined: Aug 2009 From: Minnesnowta Posts: 19,052 | Quote:
So for example, every secular justice system in the world could be called humanistic in that they are not theocratic justice systems.
I think that all other systems qualify as well. Economic systems, education systems, social system, etc.
| Agreed. Secular culture seems to be largely based on humanistic ideals.
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April 30th, 2011, 07:10 AM
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#23 | | Scholar
Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 782 | Quote: |
Remember that one need not call himself a humanist to share their beliefs and view about the world.
| Exactly. Humanism has become so well accepted and dominant it is the new base case mode of thought much the way religous piety determined thought in the past. Fish don't have a word for water, the saying goes, and neither does modern Western society need one for secular humanism. It has become the golden standard.
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April 30th, 2011, 07:35 AM
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#24 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Central Macedonia Posts: 17,763 |
Humanism cannot die..... Because as Protagoras said 2.5 thousand years ago, "Man is the measure of all things."
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May 27th, 2011, 12:33 PM
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#25 | | Historian
Joined: Sep 2010 From: United States Posts: 2,787 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thessalonian  Humanism cannot die..... Because as Protagoras said 2.5 thousand years ago, "Man is the measure of all things." | Yes. At first, humanism simply meant 'to study the subjects of humanity,' studia humanitatis - the subjects were (according to Peter Burke's The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society) "all concerned with language or morals: grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and ethics."
It sounds like a fine Liberal Arts undergraduate program!
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May 28th, 2011, 05:50 AM
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#26 | | Historian
Joined: Apr 2010 From: Manila Posts: 1,244 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Star of Genoa Yes. At first, humanism simply meant 'to study the subjects of humanity,' studia humanitatis - the subjects were (according to Peter Burke's The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society) "all concerned with language or morals: grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and ethics."
It sounds like a fine Liberal Arts undergraduate program! | It started with the interest in human capacity, since before renaissance, all the people care are gods, wealth, politics and war. Then it came to them that it is time to study humans by art. Painting, sculpture and other works of art have been called as 'humanist' since its center was the human itself. Then came the revival of the philosophers, questioning our existence, government, life, values and other things that are centered around the human existence and mind.
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May 28th, 2011, 08:51 PM
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#27 | | the governed self
Joined: Jan 2007 From: Nebraska Posts: 10,345 |
Some believe that right and wrong are right and wrong because we say they are right and wrong.
Some believe that we say right and wrong are right and wrong because they are right and wrong.
I agree.
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