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  • The world urgently needs more liberty and justice, and therefore more humanism.
  • The ethical system of humanism prioritizes these ideals at a higher level than any belief system that precedes it
  • it values the life of every person in this world
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  • Societies that prioritize private liberty to excess, that let individuals accumulate all the powers they can, find that vast inequalities emerge. Those inequalities congeal into hierarchical social classes and rigid castes and severely restrict freedom of opportunity for all but the privileged and wealthy.
  • bonded in mutual support
  • this worldly life is one of mutual reliance, every person depending on so many others
  • reasonable humanism
  • The individual needs freedoms within a supportive society, while society needs individuals to support the whole.
  • Humanism emerges as individuals abandon submission to religious traditions and gods that their reasoning cannot justify.
  • Humanism seeks greater freedoms and opportunities for individuals as they expand their capacities, yet humanism also fights for social justice when novel social structures disempower peoples or entire societies.
  • Humanism works best as a liberating ethos within cultures as they try to balance liberty and justice.
  • it is fundamentally about responsibility
  • that which each individual owes others, and also what society owes to each individual
  • trying to gradually improve people’s lives
  • regardless of any cultural pieties that stand stubbornly in the way
  • starts with actual people as they really are, culture and all
  • practical value
  • logical thought
  • the aim of humanistic reform is not progress towards a static abstract truth
  • It isn’t necessary to know what is ethically perfect before you can know what is morally reprehensible.
  • ethics of liberty and justice for all
  • Balancing liberty and justice in healthy proportions is wiser than naively supposing that both can be maximized
  • organizing against oppressive powers
  • reasonable public discussion
  • permanent reform by nonviolent and democratic means
  • it smartly keeps its means consistent with its ends
  • Humanism is the stance of vigilance for new forms of repression and oppression
  • debating values and priorities
  • alleviate suffering and decay
  • Any list of principles and ideals from humanist manifestos and resolutions at most affirm priorities for constant vigilance and standards that work for humanistic cultures so far.
  • The personal and social ethics of humanism in its details must be ever-changing
  • the practical meanings to such things as “equal dignity and worth” and “social justice” gradually develop as cultures slowly transform
  • people hundreds of years in the future will find fault with our ways
  • We may achieve better liberty and justice in our lifetimes
  • Even our moral successes today will be regarded as immoral compromises by distant generations; they’ll point to our fine ideals, our imperfect reach, and our impotent blindness.
  • Humanism asks everyone to question old pieties using common sense and an open heart, without forgetting that these human resources are within everyone.
  • Humanism can’t respect blind cultural piety, but it does recognize that religion is hardly the only source of oppression.
  • sound minds and good hearts are always needed as allies
  • Humanism urges principles of ethical wisdom for each person, without demanding submission to some wisdom tradition.
  • we must forcefully sustain its radical spirit of outrage against any degradation to humanity anywhere
  • humanism fights for greater opportunity and empowerment of each individual
  • humanity deserves nothing less than liberty and justice for all
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