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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 Blind Spot of Humanism

Even the people who would have identified as humanists would narrowly define humanity. And it took people who were not in those categories to raise their hand and say, wait a minute, we're human beings too. That's an important story in the history of humanism. It's certainly not a straightforward story because there's a tremendous amount of backwards and forwards. There might be very good questions for women but they are actually hopeless on them.

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