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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of Individualism in Humanism

How crucial is the idea of individualism to humanism? I mean, I could imagine claiming that I'm a humanist, but being a humanist who puts front and center some group of human beings. Yeah, individualism is a problematic concept because it can also be associated with this idea of individual self-assertion. Profoundly anti-humanistic, I think those movements again.

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