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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 History of Humanism

Zara Bake has written a new book on the history of humanism. Her subtitle is 700 years of humanist free thinking, inquiry, and hope. The first line of her book is what is humanism. She says it's trying to live without belief in the supernatural. But there's still a core at the heart of it: "A sense of community"

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