Humanist Community in Silicon Valley serving San Jose, Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the S. F. Peninsula since 1962

Humanism: Definitions and Commentaries

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (pub. by G. & C. Merriam) has several definitions of humanism. One is particularly apropos to Humanism as an organized philosophy:

  a philosophy that asserts the dignity and worth of man and his capacity for self-realization through reason, and that often rejects supernaturalism

• Quoting Humanist Manifesto III:

  Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.

• A definition adapted from the work of Corliss Lamont
• A Humanist creed, by Peter & Catherine Bishop
• "Humanist Quest", an aesthetic commentary by Mickie Winkler Anderson