Understanding Humanism
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Questions discussed in this book include:
- How do humanists see the relation between science and religious belief?
- Is humanism wedded to science as the only valid form of knowledge?
- What value do humanists place on the arts, and can they value religious art?
- Does the emphasis on human responsibility depend on an untenable belief in 'free will', and is this undermined by psychology and neuroscience?
- Do humanists think that life is sacred?
- What account would humanists give of the basis of human rights, and why they are important?
- Does humanism entail that human life is meaningless and pointless?
- Can humanists meet the challenge of nihilism?
Understanding Humanism provides a reliable and easily digestible introduction to the field. By exploring these questions and inviting readers to engage with the arguments, it serves as the ideal textbook for those approaching the topic of humanism for the first time.
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Andrew Copson has been Chief Executive of Humanists UK since 2009 and President of Humanists International since 2015. A former director of the Religious Education Council, the Values Education Council, and the National Council for Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education. With Alice Roberts, he is author of the The Sunday Times bestseller The Little Book of Humanism (2020), the author of Secularism: a very short introduction (2019), and editor, with A.C. Grayling, of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Humanism (2015).
Luke Donnellan is the Director of Understanding Humanism at Humanists UK, where he manages their programme of teacher training and education resources. He has worked as a primary school teacher and as a TV producer of video resources for teachers and students. He has written two online courses on humanism: Introducing humanism and Humanist lives.
Richard Norman was formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Kent, UK. He is a member of Kent Humanists and a Patron of Humanists UK. His book On Humanism is also published by Routledge (2nd edition 2012).
