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...
View ArticleDeontological 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...
View ArticleReview 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...
View ArticleNationalism 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...
View ArticleBookstore
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...
View ArticleHumanism 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...
View ArticleStar 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...
View ArticleEnlightenment 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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