Humanism in Seven Propositions
- People matter more than ideas. Always.
2. People have many ways of knowing, many ways of discovering and expressing what it means to be human. All ways matter. Art is universal.
3. Science, mathematics, and scholarship are human expressions that are testable and provable across human cultures. These are global human projects.
4. Knowledge must be tempered by the humbleness of wisdom. While Humanism is based on human knowledge at a given time and in a given culture, knowledge is contingent — the truism of today becoming the artifact of tomorrow.
5. Evolution is the greatest story of all, combining the cosmos with the human ethos.
6. Humanists see people as of central concern not because of our specialness as a species but because of our capacity to both heal and destroy ourselves, the planet, and all living things.
7. Humanism is devotion to wisdom, nature, and life.
