Humanism's God problem. Do Human Concerns Replace Religion?

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Ms. Bakewell allows that humanists may believe in God, “insofar as their focus remains mostly on the lives and experiences of people here on Earth, rather than on institutions or doctrines, or the theology of the Beyond.” Her personal preference is for ethics without religious basis. She offers David Hume (1711-1776) as Montaigne’s heir in “reflective, skeptical, witty, self-indulgent” free-thinking, and proof that an ethics of “sympathy” (fellow feeling) is enough.

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‘Humanly Possible’ Review: Tracing a Secular History

A group portrait of humanists and freethinkers takes in figures from Pico della Mirandola to Bertrand Russell and beyond

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[Saint Guinefort]

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