Humanism: Good Reads
The Little Book of Humanism: Universal Lessons on Finding Purpose, Meaning and Joy. By Andrew Copson and Alice Roberts. Piatkus, 2022, 256 pages. VSCL, Hardbound.
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry and Hope. Penguin Press, 2023, 454 pages. VSCL, Paperback.
Humanists of Greater Portland, Oregon
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. By Greg M. Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University. William Morrow, 2009, 250 pages. FVRL, Hardbound. Outstanding presentation!
I have enjoyed and benefitted from reading three books by the fine writer, humanist, and scholar: Sarah Bakewell.
How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails.
This week, I have enjoyed reading her newest book:
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry and Hope. Penguin Press, 2023, 454 pages. VSCL.
I have a number of webpages with my notes on Humanist philosophy:
How to Live a Good Life: Advice From Wise Persons
"You are what you make of yourselves. Aim high, aim for the stars, and you may yet clear the rooftops. You will need courage, tenacity, motivation, and a good sense of humor on the route. Quality of character, happiness, fulfilment of potential and of human needs can be improved through changed values, through redirection of individual life, by a process of personal change, and personal evolution."
- Jeaneane Fowler
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile." - Bertrand Russell
"Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes.
That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And while we dream on this Lose all our present state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose? - Matthew Arnold
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought. By Susan Jacoby. Yale University Press, 2013, 246 pages. VSCL.
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