Humanism with a Human Face - Radest, Howard B.
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Beginning with the thesis that Humanism has its roots both in the Enlightenment and in Transcendentalism, this book explores the consequences of taking such a point of view. Radest criticizes the desertion of Enlightenment values such as freedom, human solidarity, and rationality, as well as the failure of Humanists to understand the subjective and emotional features of their history. Out of this exploration, which is a consequence of both personal experience and philosophic analysis, Radest concludes that Humanism, and by implication, modernism are still dynamic and relevant modes of response to the problems of human beings.…mehr

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Beginning with the thesis that Humanism has its roots both in the Enlightenment and in Transcendentalism, this book explores the consequences of taking such a point of view. Radest criticizes the desertion of Enlightenment values such as freedom, human solidarity, and rationality, as well as the failure of Humanists to understand the subjective and emotional features of their history. Out of this exploration, which is a consequence of both personal experience and philosophic analysis, Radest concludes that Humanism, and by implication, modernism are still dynamic and relevant modes of response to the problems of human beings.
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HOWARD B. RADEST is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort. He is the founding Dean and now Dean Emeritus of The Humanist Institute. His books include Community Service: Encounter with Strangers (Praeger, 1993), The Devil and Secular Humanism (Praeger, 1990), and Can We Teach Ethics? (Praeger, 1989).