Inja Soul was a humanist campaigner in America in the 19th century. He wrote about life as being enjoyment of physical world, but also relationships and children. His most lasting work is what he called the 'happiness creed' The idea that happiness can only be achieved by making other people happy.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.
Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
Isy and Sarah also discuss Humanism and religion, finding beauty in the complexity of the world, a brief history of human dissection, and the writing of Michel de Montaigne.
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