[MD] Is the MOQ a Humanism?

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Well Steve,
It is great to throw around such definitions.  I'm sure you will get
feedback in kind.  There do seem to be some similarities between the
american humanist movement and the MOQ movement.  The similarities are good,
the differences we can reject through rational argument.  Anti a whole
movement is a difficult one to discuss.

Mark

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Steven Peterson
<peterson.steve at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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