Zusammenfassung der Ressource
3 key people in the humanist tradition
- Humanism is a hilosophy/world view
- That there is nothing higher or other than human existance.
- Quote: Humanism has no rules attracting punishment if broken; there is no leader, no prophet, nor revealed texts from a God
- Ann James
- Within the human person there is everything needed for a good and dignified life
- Karl Marx
- Born in Germany in 1818
- Parents were Jewish then converted to Protestanism in 1824
- He then rejected all forms of religion.
- Religion is "the opium of the people"
- "Man makes religion, Religion does not make man"
- Key Idea: Historical Materialism
- only part of human nature which doesn't change: the desire to work and produce
- Human Labour created history
- focuses on people and the world
- Historical Materialism
- The place a person has in society governs the quality of their life.
- tow opposing classes- not equal share of labour.
- Privileged class controls everything even though they are the minority.
- To prevent revolution they "invented" God to keep their domineering position.
- The exploited class believed in God. That they will be happy when they die and are in Heaven.
- exploited class will eventually violently revolt in order to gain wealth
- He wanted everyone to be equal in a classless state.
- eliminate evil from Human history.
- All mans suffering will be justified by the arrival of the classless state.
- Jean Paul Sarte
- born in Paris 1905
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