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Reading Room
Reading Room
The Humanists of Florida Association online reading room is a place
to look through documents and readings that explain, examine, and
discuss the Humanist philosophical viewpoint.
This
page is currently being developed. Check back in a few days
for more information.
Learn About Humanism
Humanism
is an outlook, a methodology, and a positive way of life. There is
no doctrine or dogma to follow. The links in this section will help
you learn more about Humanism if you are new to the subject.
Two
questions arise: What is Humanism? And why Florida?
Humanism has as many definitions as the number of people identifying
themselves as such. But Humanism is not so much about individuals as
it is about the links connecting them. The essence of Humanism is
found in the interlinked social fabric which connects all of us with
each other, and with our environment.
Humanism exists where
questions about our world begin; where the open, bold and
demystifying process of skeptical and critical thinking brings
honesty and forthright vigor to conversations at every level of
society. It is about freedom, reason, and science. It concedes that
though we might sometimes be wrong, or want for answers in our
search for the truths about ourselves and our world, the struggle to
find those truths is worth the effort.
It promotes the uninhibited
exercise of the human imagination that brings forth creation in art.
It is the essential human curiosity about the the nature of
ourselves and our world, and a willingness to submit to the
discipline of reason in order to discover them. |
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