Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxt!martillo From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: objections to humanism (England) Message-ID: <420@ihuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 09:42:39 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxt.420 Posted: Thu Apr 19 09:42:39 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Apr-84 02:28:29 EST References: <320@charm.UUCP> <407@ihuxt.UUCP> <595@ihuxb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19 + > > >What is wrong with humanism?? > > Men set the standards in humanistic philosophy. > > A German Nazi of the Hitler years could easily consider himself a cultured > > humanist. Jews, Gypsies and certain others simply were not human. > > Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo >Men set the standards in all philosophies. Just because a flaw might be common to all philosophies does not make it less a flaw. The original article requested an objection and did not specify that it be an objection unique to humanism. -- Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo (I don't care what you think about my signature)