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A Precis on Humanism
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thedailybell.com / By Tibor Machan / June 5, 2013
In modern times humanism has been associated with Karl Marx and one of his teachers, Ludwig Feuerbach. The latter was an atheist who believed that it wasn’t God who created man but the other way around. Since, however, this left no one to command us to do the right thing, an alternative source of morality was proposed by Feuerbach, namely, humanism.
A humanist argues, not unlike Socrates did, that ethics or morality rests on an understanding of human nature. What is right and wrong depend on what kind of beings we are. Because of our free will, we, unlike other animals, are capable of doing violence to our own nature. But we ought to choose to follow it, instead.
As it happens, Marx, who took quite a few of his ideas from Feuerbach, held a collectivist conception of human nature. “The human essence,” he said in his famous essay “On the Jewish Question,” “is the true collectivity of man.”
So the desire to find ethical guidance from an understanding of human nature came to the advocacy of an out and out collectivist morality. If, as Marx held, we are specie-beings, so that our flourishing or development in life must be achieved together, in concert, if individuality is a myth and collectivity the norm, then humanistic ethics and politics will, accordingly, be collectivist.
Thanks to BrotherJohnF
Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2013/06/05/a-precis-on-humanism-2/
