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Author:

Bakewell, Sarah, author.

Title:

Humanly possible : seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope / Sarah Bakewell.

Publisher:

Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Humanistic ethics--History.
Humanistic ethics.
Humanism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

""This is a book about humanists, but even humanists cannot agree on what a humanist is," declares Sarah Bakewell. Indeed, for centuries now, thinkers, writers, scholars, politicians, activists, artists, and countless others have been searching for and refining a philosophy of the human spirit. Humanism can be found in writings of Plato and Protagoras and in the thought of Confucius. It is ever-present in the work of Michel de Montaigne, and guided the thinking and activism of Harriet Taylor Mill. When Zora Neale Hurston writes, "Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn, is glory enough for me." That is humanism par excellence. In Humanly Possible, Bakewell putsforward that all the different meanings of "humanism" are worth looking at together because they are all concerned with humanitas, or, as she puts it, "our culture and learning, our words and art, our good manners and sociable desire to say hello to theuniverse." What unites humanists, religious or not, scholarly or not, philosophical or not, is that they all put the human world of culture and morality at the center of their concerns. What could be more human than that? Embracing and indeed celebratinghumanism's swirling, kaleidoscopic, rich ambiguity, Bakewell sets out not just to trace this vital philosophical lineage through the lives of its major protagonists but in fact to make her own dazzling contribution to its expansive literature. The resultis an intoxicating, joyful celebration of the human spirit from one of our most beloved and charming writers"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0735223378
9780735223370

LCCN:

2022037286

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