New Humanist
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A century of British humanism | New Humanist
2023年10月17日 · The authors view the period of 1930-70 as the first “gilded age” of humanism. Books like The Humanist Outlook (1968), edited by the philosopher A. J. Ayer, helped to define humanism in terms of ethical issues, Karl Popper’s “open society” and an intellectual outlook based on the scientific method. The 1960s also saw the founding of a Humanist Parliamentary Group, leading to greater ...
About us - New Humanist
About New Humanist. We're a quarterly magazine of culture and science, published since 1885. New Humanist is for anyone who wants to understand the ideas, conflicts and systems shaping our world - climate, capitalism, technology, fundamentalism, struggles for equality and more. We publish a beautiful edition once every three months full of ...
Articles - New Humanist
The Rationalist Association is independent, irreverent & non-profit. We are supported by our members. The latest and very best articles, news, blog posts and essays from New Humanist, promoting and debating science, reason, humanism and freethought since 1885. Featuring the finest writing and comment from the world's leading free thinking authors.
Book review: Heresy by Catherine Nixey | New Humanist
8 分钟之前 · In Heresy, Catherine Nixey strips these pretensions away with a complete (but scholarly) lack of mercy. Her focus is on Christianity’s first few centuries and she brings together three facts that are well known in the niche fields of ancient history and biblical studies, but not by the general reader, and rarely considered together.
Podcast - New Humanist
Season One explores issues of faith and fraternity, intimacy and technology, charity and virtue, black feminism and sensuous knowledge, race and belonging, and work and desire in late capitalism. Podcast listeners also get a year's subscription to New Humanist magazine for just £13.50 by using the offer code WITHREASON. Subscribe now.
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism | New Humanist
Baby wars: New Humanist winter 2023 is out now. Our latest issue features Pavan Amara on the new technologies revolutionising reproduction, Gabriele Di Donfrancesco on Europe's battle over "family values" and Rachael Lennon on a decade of same-sex marriage. Plus, a new column from Shaparak Khorsandi!
Beyond the two cultures - New Humanist
2024年3月26日 · Beyond the two cultures. Amid a polarised debate, science and art seem further apart than ever. It’s vital to keep talking and bridge the divide. "Humanism” in the modern sense was fleshed out as a worldview in the 20th century, although its roots go deeper. The idea originated in a desire to find a philosophical approach to life that would ...
Blog | New Humanist
2024年9月10日 · Rise of the fanatics: New Humanist's summer 2024 issue is out now. Our latest issue features Mary Jo McConahay on how the Catholic vote could swing the US election for Trump, Alona Ferber on how divisions between secular and religious Israelis threaten to break the Jewish state, and John Ralston Saul on how citizens can resist the authoritarian ...
Top 20 of 2021 - New Humanist
2021年12月27日 · It's been a long year. At many points, it felt as if the doomed 2020 had stretched well into 2021. The media continued to bear bad news, and reflections on the experience of grief, isolation, polarisation and other features of our social landscape continued to surface in everyday discussions.