Questions tagged [humanism]
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Is my existence contingent in experiences of nausea, and if so what is authenticity?
The feeling of nausea that Roquentin, the main character of Sartre’s
novel, famously experienced in a public garden while obsessively
watching a chestnut tree, accounts for his sensitivity to the ...
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What moral philosophers would say it is ever permitted to dehumanize others?
What moral philosophers would say it is ever permitted to dehumanize others? Obviously, I haven't defined 'dehumanize', but that may not suffice to make the question unanswerable. I ask becasue I ...
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What does Marx say about the humanity of the ultra wealthy?
What does Marx say about the humanity of the ultra wealthy? I recall from a lecture handout that he says they are alienated, not from labour, but each other. How does this reflect on the species being,...
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Can the French "moralistes" be considered as (Renaissance) humanists?
Can the French "moralistes" of the XVIIth century be considered as (Renaissance) humanists, and if not why?
Thinking here about the moralistic figures of the French classicism: Jean de La ...
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Were the English and French Enlightenment thinkers influenced by Renaissance humanists?
Were the English and French Enlightenment thinkers[1] influenced by Renaissance humanists[2]?
[1] I mean Locke, Hume, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Hobbes.
[2] Petrarch, Montaigne, Erasmus, More, Rabelais,...
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Is human nature a problem for Marxists?
Is human nature a problem for Marxists?
So I am very broadly speaking familiar with the idea that before the scientific phase of Marx's work he was more humanist, argued that human nature was being ...
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What is the difference between a "human being" and an "individual"?
What is the difference between a "human being" and an "individual"?
I have the intuition that "human being" is more associated with concepts such as dignity, a ...
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Is tolerance for other cultures and peoples an essential trait of Western Humanism?
Is tolerance for other cultures (including religions) and peoples an essential trait of Western Humanism (by Western Humanism I mean here: Renaissance Humanism and Enlightenment humanism).
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How Humanism, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and classical liberalism are related?
How Humanism (as the philosophical movement of the Renaissance historical period), the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and classical liberalism are related?
I have some difficulties distinguishing ...
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Secular humanism and ethics
Concerning ethics, secular humanism is consequentialist ("Secular humanists hold that ethics is consequential, to be judged by results." [1]).
It seems also to be epicurean ("Secular ...
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Is Confucianism a humanism?
To what extent Confucianism is a humanism, in the Western meaning of the term?
I propose to tackle this question by framing it this way: what are the similarities and differences between Confucianism ...
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Where exactly does the value of an individual human lie?
I mean to ask where the value of a human lies, not within the context of the universe but within the room of humanity. What exactly makes a human important? And, is it always something she puts out ...
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Is the foundation of morality subjectively survival and happiness, and why or why not?
Many rational minds have come to attribute the foundation of morality to humankind's survival and happiness. I have been discussing with friends about why that 'humankind survival and happiness' must ...
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What do Marxists make of contemporary technophobia?
What would Marxists make of contemporary luddism, technophobia, etc.?
In 1867, Karl Marx wrote that it would be some time before workers
were able to distinguish between the machines and "the ...
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Is harming others always considered bad?
Do any philosophers either explicitly avoid condemning harm, or condone it, especially harming others, in their ethics?
Why do humans consider causing bad to others as bad and represent it as bad act ...
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