The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to humanism:
Humanism – broad category of active ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities—particularly rationalism. Humanists endorse universal morality based on the commonality of human nature, suggesting that solutions to our social and cultural problems cannot be parochial.
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Humanism entails a commitment to the search for truth and morality through human means in support of human interests. In focusing on the capacity for self-determination, humanism rejects transcendental justifications, such as a dependence on faith, the supernatural, or divinely revealed texts.
Humanism asserts that knowledge of right and wrong is based on our best understanding of our individual and joint interests, rather than stemming from a transcendental or arbitrarily local source.
Agnosticism – Art – Atheism – Common good – Compassion – Creativity – Ecosphere (global ecosystem) – Empiricism – Ethical – Ethics – Evolution – Evolutionary Humanism – Experience – Experimentation – Freethought – Human dignity – Humanitarianism – Human rights – Imagination – Justice – Knowledge – Life stance – Nature – Non-theistic – Observation – Personal liberty – Rationality – Rationalism – Reason – Scientific method – Scientific skepticism – Secular – Social responsibility
For more organizations see Category:Humanist associations
Some people who have made a major impact on the development or advancement of humanism:
Phillip Adams – Steve Allen – Sir Arthur C. Clarke – Richard Dawkins – Gareth Evans – Richard Feynman – Tim Flannery – E. M. Forster (see in particular "What I believe") – William Hayden – Thomas Jefferson – Paul Kurtz – Philip Nitschke – Philip Pullman – Gene Roddenberry – Bertrand Russell – Carl Sagan – John Ralston Saul – Michael Shermer – Peter Singer – Barbara Smoker – Ibn Warraq – Robyn Williams – E. O. Wilson
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