Secular humanism
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Secular humanism is a humanist philosophy that espouses reason, ethics, and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and religious dogma as the basis of morality and decision-making. Like other types of humanism, secular humanism is a life stance that focuses on the way human beings can lead good, happy and functional lives.
The term "secular humanism" was coined in the 20th century, and was adopted by non-religious humanists in order to make a clear distinction from "religious humanism". Secular humanism is also called "scientific humanism". Biologist E. O. Wilson claimed it to be "the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature".
Humanism has appeal to agnostics, atheists, deists, empiricists, freethinkers, naturalists, rationalists, scientific skeptics and secularists.
Those who call themselves Humanists are a relative minority—numbering between four and five million people worldwide in 31 countries.
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- List of humanists
- List of official religions
- Personism
- Philosophical humanism
- Renaissance humanism, the Renaissance liberal arts movement
Related philosophies
- Agnosticism
- Atheism
- Comparative religion
- Empiricism, that knowledge arises from experience
- Epicureanism, a form of atomic materialist
- Freethought
- Humanism
- Secular humanism
- Personism
- Philosophical naturalism
- Rationalism
- Religious humanism
- Secularism
- Transhumanism
- Extropianism, aiming of improving the human condition
- Marxist humanism
See also
Related philosophies
- Empiricism
- Epicureanism
- Eupraxsophy
- Extropianism
- Freethought
- Humanism
- Morality without religion
- Objectivism
- Philosophical naturalism
- Rationalism
- Religious humanism
- Secularism
- Transhumanism