EUPRAXOPHIA
(from the Greek roots eu [good], praxis
[practice] and sophia [wisdom]: Wisdom for a good pratice)
It
is the official Secular Humanist Magazine
of the Peruvian Non Religious
& Humanist Movement and publishes papers on Secular Humanism,
Humanist Ethics and Criticism on Religion.
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1: WHAT IS SECULAR HUMANISM?
October1998
Abstracts
WHAT
IS HUMANISM?:
Frederick
Edwords, American Humanist Association
Firstly
author give us a classification of humanism. Then he describes modern humanism
-religious and secular- in a positive waay
A SECULAR
HUMANIST DECLARATION:
Paul Kurtz,
Center for Inquiry
Secular
humanism is a vital force in the contemporary world. It is now under unwarranted
and intemperate attack from varios quarters. This declaration defends only
that form of secular humanism which is explicitly committed to democracy.
It is opossed to all varieties of belief that seek supernatural sanction
for their values or espouse rule by dictatorship...
THE HUMANIST
WAY:
John
Mc Kinnon, Ex Minister of the Universalist Unitarian Church, USA
Humanism
is a materialist philosophy and thus a naturalistic one. but the word ‘materialism’
has gained a certain bad reputation in society. For that the author proposes
the new terms ‘matter-ism’ and ‘idea-ism’ in order to make the difference.
ON HUMANISM:
J.P.
van Praag, Former Co-President, Internacional Ethic and Humanist Union
It tryes
to define and characterize to humanism (mental attitude, humanist asuntions,
view of humankind and world, naturality, etc.)
SECULAR
HUMANISM, It is the Adjetive that counts:
Joseph
Fletcher was Professor of Ethics, Universidad de Virginia
Author
enfatizes the fundamental and negative distinction between secular humanism
and other kinds of humanism: its unbelief in God and religions.
BETWEEN
RELATIVISM AND/OR FUNDAMENTALISM, an Humanist Answer:
Alberto
Hidalgo Tuñón, Philosopher of Universidad de Oviedo
In this
enlightening paper the author approches all diferent types of humanism
and expresses his discrepancies between those ones and rationalist humanism
which is a valid option in those possible scenaries in which it can build
its future if it manages to shake off all relativism and fundamentalistic
views.
WHO IS
AFRAID OF HUMANISM?:
Edd
Doerr, American Humanist
Association
It is about
mainly on Secular humanism in North America where is under unjust attack
from the American conservative religious right. Author defends and explains
the main Humanist points and also recognizes some of its fails.
WHAT
IS NEW IN OUR HUMANISM?:
Claudio
Gutiérrez, Ex-Rector, Universidad de Costa Rica and present Minister
of Culture in that country.
It is about
firstly on several contemporary discoveries in Biology, Genetics, Mathematics,
Cybernetics, etc. and also on the end of the Socialist utopia. Humanism
should be realsitic, based in Nature and in what we can find by ourselves
that is we need.
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