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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Anti-Humanist View of Religion
To be human ist was not to be an atheist in the way that we would recognize it right now. But there's a kind of religious thought that is deeply anti-humanist where they say, 'We need to look outside humanity for salvation' I think religion tends towards a more humanist strand when it really focuses on human wellbeing and life here on earth amongst each other rather than this idea that there's something terribly wrong.
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