[MD] Is the MOQ a Humanism?

[david buchanan]

"rorty vigorously attacks the idea of an intellectual vanguard. he writes that pragmatism is humanism applied to epistemology--truth is not sub specie aeternitatis but is what is useful to human beings."


> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:22:37 -0500
> From: peterson.steve at gmail.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: [MD]  Is the MOQ a Humanism?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Is the MOQ a humanism? That's an interesting question which enticed me
> to make the mistake of skimming a long thread on the subject which
> will forever be an embarrassment to the moq.org archives. I wonder if
> it would be possible for such a thread to find its point?
> 
> I would say that it is an anti-humanism in that it refuses the notion
> of human nature as something upon which a philosophy of ethics can be
> built, and it is a version of Secular Humanism in that it seeks human
> well-being independently from the notion of God's will or the
> possibility of attaining an other-worldly afterlife.
> 
> Best,
> Steve
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