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What exactly is Humanism?

Humanism is a philosophy that stresses the value of human beings, the value of reason and the value of free thought without religious justification. This is the simplest definition of humanism but to...

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Deontological and Consequentialist Ethics

The question I see a lot on the internet usually goes like this in an almost accusatory way “God gave us moral rules to act by and without God what makes you a good person? Why don’t you murder or...

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Review of The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Stranger was written during World War II in 1942 as a philosophical reaction to the bleak dullness of everyday life, the daily struggle to get food on the table and the inherent hopelessness in...

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Nationalism and Religion

Anti nationalist thought is pretty common in the humanist and atheist community but by no means uniform, we are free thinkers after all. I think the reason for this is the similarities between...

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Bookstore

I went to the bookstore yesterday and I picked out some books about humanist or existentialist related topics. I already had the Stranger but it fits in this collection. The first book on the bottom...

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Humanism and Politics

Is Humanism inherently a political philosophy? Are there political views that are a core part of humanist philosophy? Can humanist philosophy include people who have a strictly apathetic attitude...

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Star Trek Saturday #1

Welcome to this weekly edition of “Star Trek Saturday”. Once a week, every Saturday I’ll be posting everything to do with Star Trek, character analysis, episode reviews, you name it. Most of the time...

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Enlightenment Part 1

What was the Enlightenment? It was a intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries stressing skepticism and reason over traditional beliefs. Below is a brief summary of Enlightenment views...

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