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  New Humanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Humanism or neohumanism were terms applied to a theory of literary criticism, together with its consequences for culture and political thought, developed around 1900 by the American scholar Irving Babbitt, and the scholar and journalist Paul Elmer More.
Babbitt himself did not accept the qualification new as applied to his humanism, which became influential as a strand of conservative thought in the following years, up to the 1930s.
The New Humanism: A Critique of Modern America, 1900-1940 (1977) J. David Hoeveler, Jr.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Humanism   (287 words)

  
 Religious Humanism An address delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly 2000
Fourth, if the old humanism seemed closed to a sense of wonder and mystery and to any form of transcendence, the new humanism can be an open humanism--open to wonder and mystery and transcendence in a naturalistic framework.
Humanism is by definition truly committed to human well being, and that means we must be socially responsible and active in the work of justice.
The goals of religious humanism is fully and truly human beings, people who are free of the fictions and illusions that diminish the self, and who are free and independent within the context of a loving and caring community working together to transform the world.
www.thespiritualsanctuary.org /Humanism/Religioushumanism.html   (1634 words)

  
 The Crisis of Historical Humanism and New Humanism
In recent years, that is since the ’80s, new movements have appeared in both the political and philosophical fields, as well as the physical sciences, that put the human being first, that restore a special and central position to the human being in the natural world, and that announce a new conception of humanism.
Human beings, although they participate in the natural world inasmuch as they possess a body, are not reducible to a simple natural phenomenon, do not have a fixed and unchanging nature, a definable essence – each human being is a "project" of transformation of the natural world, and of himself or herself.
Humanism as defined with this approach and attitude to personal and collective life is, then, not the heritage of one particular culture – it is the heritage of all the cultures of the Earth.
www.dialogo.org /docs/sem3.htm   (2348 words)

  
 Edge 100
This new culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, have taken the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
However, scientific humanism, as it arose with Darwin in opposition to the dogma of Victorian clerics, is explicitly associated with atheism or agnosticism, and is understood by many to point the way towards a purely scientifically-grounded theory of right action—ethical humanism.
With it, new huge ships were built, commerce flourished, new lands were reached, industries developed, people were healed, and the city of the wise king was diverse, prosperous, tolerant, intellectually vibrant and projected towards the future...
www.edge.org /documents/archive/edge100.html   (12814 words)

  
 Manifesto for a new humanism, Claudio Gutiérrez, Claudio Gutierrez, philosophy, Costa Rica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The extra human cortex, with the possible exception of the aforementioned areas committed to language comprehension and generation, seems to be mostly vacant.
This lack of assignment of most human cortical neurons to a motor o sensitive purpose (in the case of the chimpanzee or other mammals practically all neurons are assigned to those functions) has created the popular legend that we human beings actually use only a fraction of our brains.
The new humanism gladly accepts our deep consanguinity with the rest of living beings: it is now a welcome given that we are part and parcel of the universal ecology of planet Earth.
claudiogutierrez.com /Manifesto.html   (8321 words)

  
 Humanist International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These foundational documents included the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, declaration of principles, the thesis and the basis for political action.
All of these documents reflect the philosophy of New or Universal Humanism developed since 1969 by Mario Rodríguez Cobos, pen name: Silo.
Also known as "Siloists", after the founder of New Humanism, this organisation has been treated with suspicion by other humanist organisations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humanist_International   (299 words)

  
 What's the Humanist Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The humanist movement is an international organization formed by people of different ages, origins, culture and religion, united by the project to build a truly human society.
A society in which the human being, with his needs and aspirations, is the central value.
A society in which human rights are completely realized: the right to health, instruction, freedom, spirituality, search for the meaning of life, and an existence with dignity.
www.humanism.org   (70 words)

  
 Is There a New Humanism? -- humanismo Nuevo Humanismo humanism New Humanism
Humanism is so solid, complete and grounded on our surrounding reality, that results very attractive and can't be refuted (except through lies, distortions, etc).
But humanity's problems are certainly serious and, as I am convinced these problems are solvable for sure and that complete humanism is essential to it, I don't hesitate to speak clearly about all this.
The Core Ideas of New Humanism We believe in human beings, in their possibilities to change themselves and in their capacity to transform the world they live in.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/mhec/DOCU17.HTM   (2150 words)

  
 The Humanist Movement Online | New Humanism | Non-violence | Internal Change   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Violence will continue to color all social activity as long as the human being does not fully realize a human society–a society in which power is in the hands of the social whole and not some part of it that subordinates and objectifies the whole.
Increasingly, human beings are mistreated in their work, cheated by the economic system, and lied to by politicians.
We believe in human beings, in their possibilities to change themselves and in their capacity to transform the world they live in.
www.netwiz.net /~humanism   (2384 words)

  
 Probe Ministries - Education and New Age Humanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Humanism is the dominant view among leading educators in the U.S. They set the trends of modern education, develop the curriculum, dispense federal monies, and advise government officials on educational needs.
I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being.
Humanism as a religion represents a real threat to our Christian heritage, but eastern philosophical ideas by comparison are deadly to our way of life.
www.probe.org /content/view/789/88   (3077 words)

  
 Proutist Universal: From Humanism to Neo-Humanism
The famous Roman orator Cicero gave a clear, new definition to the term ‘humanism,’ calling it “an educational and cultural program and an ideal expressed in the concept of humanities.” It referred to the study of several extant disciplines, such as history, literature, philosophy, rhetoric and public speaking.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, humanism became still further removed from religions and came to be associated with deism, religious indifference or atheism.
According to Zagorin, Sartre’s so-called humanism is a degraded humanism bereft of all meaning or beauty, with the premise being that there is no God, that man is simply thrown into existence and makes his own choices in life for better or for worse, moral or immoral.
www.proutist-universal.org /archives/000787.html   (2829 words)

  
 Annotated Webliography of Humanism
professor of Humanism and Worldviews at the University for Humanistics (Universiteit voor Humanistiek) at Utrecht in the Netherlands
Humanism is an approach to life based on reason and our common humanity, recognising that moral values are properly founded on human nature and experience alone.
"News and Letters Committees is an organization of Marxist-Humanists that since its birth has stood for the abolition of capitalism, both in its private property form as in the U.S., and its state property form, as it has historically appeared in state-capitalist regimes calling themselves Communist as in Russia and China.
www.xs4all.nl /~pderkx/humwebliography.html   (7511 words)

  
 New Humanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Whenever this attitude appears, it is always on the side of the human being rather than any faction or group, ideology (eg political or religious) or nation.
The New Humanist Movement is a broad based social movement whose members come from a wide range of organisations and backgrounds with a diversity of interests and activities.
New Humanism is not the same as Humanism, Humanism summary
re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk /re/religion/non/newhumanism.htm   (308 words)

  
 New humanism and Sartre's moral
They represent a poetic verification of new humanism and besides they can be object for a poetic theatre due to they represent the existential surrealism of our age.
"Nuovo Umanesimo" That is a research of new values through the history of French Literature of the 20th century after the fall of positivist and religious absolutes (Index).
A short "Appendix" on Condorcet and the Enlightenment to show the marks of the passage to new humanism (Index).
www.etudes-augias.com /Inglese.htm   (480 words)

  
 Secular Humanism: A New Approach
Secular humanism is thus committed to science and reason as the method of evaluating all truth claims, whether arising in popular belief, scientific theories, or in moral, political, or religious claims.
The moral of the story is that the Council for Secular Humanism, publisher of Free Inquiry, and the Center for Inquiry represent a point of view which is distinct from those of other existing humanist and atheist organizations in the United States.
Paul Kurtz, founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, is editor-in-chief of Free Inquiry and professor emeritus of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
www.secularhumanism.org /library/fi/kurtz_22_4.htm   (1231 words)

  
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Habitually the term Humanism was used to refer to the literary and philosophical movement that was launched at the end of Middle Ages - parallel to the Renaissance in arts.
In the 1930s, when Progressivism came to light, the terms ‘new humanism,’ ‘Christian humanism,’ ‘integral humanism,’ and other similar ones were used by its followers to affirm that Progressivism could fully satisfy the revolutionary demand that man should not believe in things that reason cannot explain.
It seems quite probable that Benedict XVI was referring to the new humanism spoken of by Paul VI, which was the same as that used by Progressivism.
www.traditioninaction.org /Questions/F007_RatzingerNewHumanism.html   (710 words)

  
 Towards a New Humanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Humanism was on the march, confident that it would ultimately banish inequalities, man’s inhumanity to man and the odious superstitions and ideologies that underpinned them (we sometimes forget Humanism’s antagonism towards communism).
The new pope is almost universally viewed with suspicion and contempt outside of so-called ‘faith communities’.
If we truly believe that Humanism is more than just one of many competing and equivalent belief systems in a ‘pluralist’ society, then we need to reorder our priorities and adopt a more robust approach.
www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Politics/Balaam.html   (2473 words)

  
 New Humanist magazine
I was watching BBC news in a friend's flat on the south bank of the Thames.
On Monday September 4th scientist, author, broadcaster and opera director Jonathan Miller was announced as the new president of the Rationalist Association, publisher of New Humanist magazine, Britain's leading atheist and freethinking publication.
We Couldn't think of anyone who better symbolises what we are about questioning everything with an open mind, challenging sacred cows and thinking about the complexity of human life from all angles, scientific, artistic, social, without being told what to think by a ghost with a big white beard.
www.newhumanist.org.uk   (993 words)

  
 catallaxy » Beyond R&L chapter 9: A new humanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Another question to ponder while reading this chapter is what the new humanism would add to or subtract from the broad agenda of free trade, rule of law and moral framework.
The New Capitalism is not the friend of the family, nor of the values which families embody at their best: caring, altruism and love.
This new humanism has to be enriched by caring values with an ‘ethic of care’ for the natural environment.
badanalysis.com /catallaxy/?p=1204   (1690 words)

  
 Marxist Humanism
Marxist humanists therefore emphasise human agency and subjectivity, as against structuralist interpretations of social theory, as, for example, espoused by Louis Althusser, and place greater emphasis on ethical rather than social-theoretical problems of Marxism.
It was C. Wright Mills who definined the term “New Left,” when he published an Open Letter to the New Left, addressed to the editors of the New Left Review in Britain, but indirectly addressing the new social movements in the U.S. and Europe.
The New Left emerged in England from a very authoritative group of historians and social-theorists, mainly around the formation of the New Left Review, a magazine which continues to publish critical social, cultural and political commentary.
www.marxists.org /subject/humanism/index.htm   (1556 words)

  
 Edge: THE NEW HUMANISTS
The new style of explanation rejects such ideas as being, in the end, little different from mysticism, since the alleged ultimate reality is unknown and unknowable.
What the new humanists, as you call them, have done is open the door on some of the mysteries of science by making such information accessible to a general public.
Thus the role of the humanities is conservative, bridging the present and the future, with a view to the past.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/brockman/brockman_print.html   (13165 words)

  
 New Humanism - Activities of the Humanist Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
New Humanism - Activities of the Humanist Movement
The present and the future of new generations are at stake in this struggle.
The Movement gives special importance to human subjectivity, to the meaning in life, and to a personal re-appraisal.
www.humanist.demon.co.uk /newhumanism   (292 words)

  
 A Quick Index to Humanism Online
Humanism: the peculiar idea that every human being has worth and dignity.
"Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives.
It stands for the building of a more humane society through an ethics based on human and other natural values in a spirit of reason and free inquiry through human capabilities.
www.geocities.com /Athens/7693   (198 words)

  
 THE NEW HUMANISM IDEALS
Then it will be possible to recover the value of the human being and the meaning of life.
It was founded by Mario Rodriguez Cobos, better known as Silo, who is a Latin American thinker, writer and the creator of New Humanism.
For example, the Community for Human Development in the cultural area, the Humanist Party in the political area, the Humanist News Agencies, Centres for Cultures, the World Centre for Humanist Studies, the International Federation of Human Aid, the World Without Wars and Without Violence Organization, electronic magazines, the Humanist Economic Network and the Humanist International.
youth.net /memories/1999/att-0367/00-part   (492 words)

  
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A reaction against the increasing hegemony of science, the new humanism urged a return to liberal education and objected to the specialization to which science and technology were giving rise.
Endowed with free will, human beings are essentially moral agents; they cannot be studied exclusively in terms of heredity and environment or any other scientific constructs.
It is not only unavoidable but also desirable that one apply extrinsic criteria -- ethical and evaluative -- to literature.
www.library.utoronto.ca /utel/glossary/New_humanism.html   (88 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo: Books: Noam Chomsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Chomsky's scholarship in the New Military Humanism is generally good, although he does rely way too heavily on his own writing, usually on irrelevant military campaigns.
The focus here is the 'new military humanism' of the West as an idea, and as a practice, with the Kosovo war of 1999 serving as the example.
This is an examination of the conflict, and of the implementation of a 'new military humanism'.
www.amazon.com /New-Military-Humanism-Lessons-Kosovo/dp/1567511767   (3264 words)

  
 What is the New Humanism?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Humanist Movement, or New Humanism, are Siloists.
It was formed in Argentina by a man named Mario Luis Rodrigues Cobos, also known as "Silo", and it was the ideology behind the dictatorship of Evita Peron.
While Humanism is a philosophical non-political life stance, the "New Humanism" is a political movement, who's goals are somewhat unclear.
www.update.uu.se /~fbendz/humanism/siloism.html   (184 words)

  
 newhumanist.com
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