One criticism of humanism you don’t seem to touch on is,
isn’t it possible that humanism directly contributes to the ongoing animal welfare catastrophe?
And indeed, it was something very like humanism (let’s call it specific humanism) that laid the ideological foundation for the slave trade and the holocaust.
My view is that humanism can be thought of as a hangover of Christian values, the belief that our minds are the endowments of God.
But if we have been touched by the angels, perhaps the non metaphorical component of that is the development of the infosphere/memetic landscape/culture. Which is close to synonymous with technology. Edit: considering eg. writing a technology that is.
One criticism of humanism you don’t seem to touch on is,
isn’t it possible that humanism directly contributes to the ongoing animal welfare catastrophe?
And indeed, it was something very like humanism (let’s call it specific humanism) that laid the ideological foundation for the slave trade and the holocaust.
My view is that humanism can be thought of as a hangover of Christian values, the belief that our minds are the endowments of God.
But if we have been touched by the angels, perhaps the non metaphorical component of that is the development of the infosphere/memetic landscape/culture. Which is close to synonymous with technology. Edit: considering eg. writing a technology that is.