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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The History of the Humanist Gay Lobby
I think anything that happens after I'm born is the modern world. Can we think of fascism, Nazism, Stalinism in some sense as fundamentally anti-humanist movements? They're sort of valorizing the state or the system rather than the individual human being. There's something profoundly out of culture about human life as we find it. What's needed is a strong authoritative other thing. Inevitably, because it's an abstract idea, it's imposing the state again.
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