HUMANISM

3 types of humanism. Vico's, Christian humanism which allows you to use your god given reason to read the Bible outside outside the scholastic tradition, and the utilitarian humanismThe issue of our judgment of narcissism has been nagging me since my recent discussion with Mark Greenway of the band Napalm Death on the Hardcore Humanism Podcast regarding humanity, and how people with different political positions treat each other. Greenway identified a “crisis of humanity” that was partly based on our prioritizing political affiliations and symbols such as flags over human beings. “This emphasis on symbols like flags is really to the detriment of human beings because it's something that is inanimate that sometimes becomes the battering ram that we use,” Greenway told me.--- Psychologytoday.com, Sep 2020Michael FriedmanThat which has been known since the days of Cicero as humanism is in the narrowest and widest senses a consequence of literacy. Ever since philosophy began as a literary genre, it has recruited adherents (followers) by writing in an infectious way about love and friendship. Not only is it about love of wisdom; it is also an attempt to move others to this love. That written philosophy has managed from its beginning more than 2500 years ago until the present day to remain virulent (contagious) is a result of its capacity to make friends through its texts. It has been reinscribed like a chain-letter through the generations, and despite all the errors of reproduction, indeed, perhaps because of such errors, has recruited its copyists and interpreters into the ranks of brotherhood. The most important link in this chain of transmission was without doubt the reception of the Greek message by the Romans, for the Roman adoption / appropriation made the Greek texts available to the empire and mediated, through the fall of the Roman west, their accessibility to later European cultures.--- Peter SloterdijkThe Elmauer Rede: Rules for the Human Zoo. A Response to the Letter on Humanism.Post-theistic humanismThe Marxists push the dignity of man even to the point of denying God. "Philosophy makes no secret of it," Marx says. "The profession of Prometheus: 'in a word, I hate all gods. . . ,' is the profession of philosophy itself, the discourse which it holds and which it will always hold against every god of heaven and earth which does not recognize human consciousness as the highest divinity. This divinity suffers no rival." 1
Karl Marx, Marceaux choisis, ed. N.R.F., p. 37· Quoted in "On The Primacy Of The Common Good."
== AQ-170= Humanism; Karl Marx; Kurt Gödel; Bioworld; ==
== Rhizomata ==
* See also: Humanity; ahumanism, posthumanism, transhumanism, antihumanism, hyerhumanism, New Man, Homo Novus; inhumanism.
* Species being
* General concern
* General providence
* General will
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