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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Justification of the Ways of God to Man
Voltaire wrote entries in his philosophical dictionary about this question of when terrible things happen and he took aim at this justification that was brought forward by the philosopher Leibniz. He said we've got a perfect right to be way aware of our faith and complain but why not actually do something practical to make it less likely to happen, less destructive? This idea is later called leeureism which just means we can make things a bit better. It's one of the humanist ideas at the heart of what happened in the U.S., says John Avlon.
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