We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: animals suffering humanism
We've never heard
About a marvel quite so great,
For all the heroes who have lived
In history can't measure up
In bravery against the Maid.
Tags: feminism humanism renaissance joan-of-arc
We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a parable when I was younger, about a father who lifts his young son onto his back to carry him across a flooding river. 'When I am older,' said the boy to his father, 'I will carry you across this river as you now do for me.' 'No, you won't,' said the father stoically. 'When you are older you will have your own concerns. All I expect is that one day you will carry your own son across this river as I no do for you.' Cultivating this attitude is an important part of Humanism--to realize that life without God can be much more than a series of strict tit-for-tat transactions where you pay me and I pay you back. Learning to pay it forward can add a tremendous sense of meaning and dignity to our lives. Simply put, it feels good to give to others, whether we get back or not.
Greg M. EpsteinTags: motivational inspirational morality ethics atheism humanism parable pay-it-forward
How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and so forth. Every day new sects are created and what Saint Paul says about human trickery comes true, with cunning which tries to draw those into error (cf Ephesians 4, 14). Having a clear Faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas, relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching', looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. However, we have a different goal: the Son of God, true man. He is the measure of true humanism. Being an 'Adult' means having a faith which does not follow the waves of today's fashions or the latest novelties. A faith which is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ is adult and mature. It is this friendship which opens us up to all that is good and gives us the knowledge to judge true from false, and deceit from truth.
Pope Benedict XVITags: christianity religion faith liberalism jesus humanism zeitgeist catholicism marxism the-church worldview christian-humanism
It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.
Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.
Tags: technology apple computers humanism leadership leaders liberal-arts engineers human-beings steve-jobs product-thinking
This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered --it needs to be rejected outright. To suggest that one can't be good without belief in God is not just an opinion, a mere curious musing -- it is a prejudice.
Greg M. EpsteinTags: religion prejudice humanism
There is no actual need of humans to be a pious like an angel, it's a big chase to be a human and for me it's enough to be a human.
M.H. RakibTags: humanism
But it will be asked: What is the force and power of the blessings and curses of men, even if these men be such giants as Plato and Aristotle? Does truth become more true because Aristotle blesses it, or does it become error because Plato curses it? Is it given men to judge the truths, to decide the fate of the truths? On the contrary, it is the truths which judge men and decide their fate and not men who rule over the truths. Men, the great as well as the small, are born and die, appear and disappear - but the truth remains. When no one had as yet begun to "think" or to "search," the truths which later revealed themselves to men already existed. And when men will have finally disappeared from the face of the earth, or will have lost the faculty of thinking, the truths will not suffer therefrom.
Lev ShestovTags: truth humanism aristotle platon
MEMED'E SON MEKTUBUMDUR
...
Ölmekten, oğlum korkmuyorum,
ama ne de olsa
iş arasında bazan,
irkilip ansızın,
yahut yalnızlığında uyku öncesinin
günleri saymak biraz zor.
Dünyaya doymak olmuyor, Memet
doymak olmuyor...
Dünyada kiracı gibi değil,
yazlığına gelmiş gibi de değil,
yaşa dünyada babanın eviymiş gibi...
Tohuma, toprağa, denize inan,
insana hepsinden önce.
Bulutu, makinayı, kitabı sev,
insanı hepsinden önce.
Kuruyan dalın
sönen yıldızın
sakat hayvanın
duy kederini,
ama hepsinden önce de insanın.
Sevindirsin seni cümlesi nimetlerin
sevindirsin seni karanlık ve aydınlık,
sevindirsin seni dört mevsim,
ama hepsinden önce insan sevindirsin seni.
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Tags: humanism
...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist']
Tags: atheism humanism atheist secularism secular pointless humanist
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