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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 19:13:53 EDT
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Summary: Broader meaning of "humanism"

The term "humanism" refers to something much broader than the philosophies
practiced by such groups as the Ethical Cultural Society.  Someone who
is more knowledgeable about history than I can comment further, but I
thought that "humanism" refers to the intellectual movements which formed
the Renaissance and ended the Middle Ages.  Humanism then became associated
with rational inquiry and with philosophers such as Descartes.  If
"secular Humanism" is banned in the schools, it seems that this refers
to these historical movements (and also the American Revolution).