We are talking here of the humanism that had its roots in the Enlightenment, sometimes referred to as secular humanism. Man is the product of chance in a closed system of natural law. Our number came up in the Monte Carlo game. Man is only material, a complex machine. His behavior is determined.
Freedom is an illusion.
Man's dignity is the result of where he stands on the evolutionary scale. He is more complex. Man is different only in quantity. He is only a part of nature. How I view myself.