Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Species and Humanism

The term 'Humanism' has had a variety of meanings, perhaps the most general of which is 'Secularism'.  Accordingly, Modern Political Philosophy can be conceived as a Humanist response to Medieval Theocratism.  Now, in the vast literature on the topic, there seems to be little consideration of the implication of Evolutionism, and, in particular, of the concept of Species, for that of Humanism.  Thus lacking has been the circumscription of the scope of the latter as Planetary, rather than as, as is usually the case, indefinitely localized.  One exception has been Modern Political Philosophy, which implicitly treats Humanism as a Nationalist phenomenon.  So, Nationalism is no longer adequate to what might be called Evolutionist Humanism.

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