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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Responsibility in Humanism
I like the idea that plagues and earthquakes play such a large role in the flourishing of humanism throughout history. But it actually, it makes sense upon reflection because I would take part of humanism to sort of accept the responsibility of trying to make things better. An anti-humanist or non-humanist philosophy can kind of offload that to god to destiny,. A humanist has got to say, well, look there's randomness but we still have to do the best we can in the face of that.
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