List of humanists
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Humanism is a comprehensive life stance that upholds human reason, ethics, and justice, and rejects supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition. This article uses the words Humanism and Humanist (with a capital H and no adjective such as "secular") to refer to the life stance and its adherents, and humanism (with a small h) to refer to other related movements or philosophies. While this convention is not universal among all Humanists, it is used by a significant number of them, and for purposes of this article, helps distinguish between Humanism as a life stance and other forms of humanism.
Humanism has appeal to agnostics, atheists, deists, empiricists, freethinkers, naturalists, rationalists, scientific skeptics and secularists.
Those who call themselves Humanists are a relative minority—numbering between four and five million people worldwide in 31 countries.
See also
- List of humanists
- List of official religions
- Personism
- Philosophical humanism
- Renaissance humanism, the Renaissance liberal arts movement
Organizations
- American Humanist Association
- British Humanist Association
- Camp Quest
- Campus Freethought Alliance
- Center for Inquiry
- Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
- Council for Secular Humanism (formerly CODESH)
- Council of Australian Humanist Societies
- Ethical Culture
- Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations
- Fellowship of Reason
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- Godless Americans PAC (political action committee)
- Humanist Association of Canada
- Institute for Humanist Studies
- Internet Infidels
- National Center for Science Education
- New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists
- Quackwatch
- Skeptics Society
- Secular Student Alliance
- Secular Web
- World Transhumanist Association
Related philosophies
- Agnosticism
- Atheism
- Comparative religion
- Empiricism, that knowledge arises from experience
- Epicureanism, a form of atomic materialist
- Freethought
- Humanism
- Personism
- Philosophical naturalism
- Rationalism
- Religious humanism
- Secularism
- Transhumanism
- Extropianism, aiming of improving the human condition
- Marxist humanism
