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Humanist Manifesto I

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56:, ethics, religion, self-fulfillment, and the quest for freedom and social justice. This latter, stated in article fourteen, proved to be the most controversial, even among humanists, in its opposition to "acquisitive and profit-motivated society" and its demand for an egalitarian world community based on voluntary mutual cooperation. The document's release was reported by the mainstream media on May 1, simultaneous with its publication in the May/June 1933 issue of the 495: 565: 468: 474: 199: 157: 111: 536: 560: 555: 73: 121: 340: 310: 286: 452: 372: 93: 575: 570: 529: 411:(managing editor, the New Humanist, Chicago, Illinois; minister, Third Unitarian Church, Chicago, Illinois.) 350: 296: 215: 52:. The document outlines fifteen affirmations on cosmology, biological and cultural evolution, human nature, 183: 362: 320: 280: 209: 382: 376: 167: 131: 67: 388: 306: 260: 153: 366: 44:
and refers to humanism as "the religion of the future." Nevertheless, it is careful not to express a
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and published with 34 signers. Unlike the later manifestos, this first talks of a new
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Of the 65 people who were asked to sign, 34 accepted. About half (15) were
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You can help Knowledge (XXG) by 14: 493: 365:(leader of the Free Fellowship, 329:(minister, Universalist Church, 120:(general editorial department, 100:; Professor of church history, 1: 401:(minister, Unitarian Church, 391:(All Souls Unitarian Church, 273:(minister, Unitarian Church, 244:(literary critic and author.) 30:to distinguish it from later 74:Humanism and Its Aspirations 592: 488: 440:"About Religious Humanism" 415:A 35th signature, that of 319:(professor of philosophy, 166:(professor of physiology, 341:Science League of America 122:Scripps-Howard Newspapers 65:Two manifestos followed: 311:University of Pittsburgh 287:John Herman Randall, Jr. 200:First Unitarian Society 94:J. A. C. Fagginger Auer 561:Nontheism publications 505:-related article is a 351:Boston Ethical Society 321:University of Michigan 297:Abraham Lincoln Center 281:Charles Francis Potter 210:University of Illinois 186:(former editor of the 377:Boston, Massachusetts 184:Albert C. 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Index

Humanist Manifestos
Raymond Bragg
religion
creed
dogma
epistemology
New Humanist
Humanist Manifesto II
Humanism and Its Aspirations
Unitarians
J. A. C. Fagginger Auer
Harvard University
Tufts College
E. Burdette Backus
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles
Harry Elmer Barnes
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
L. M. Birkhead
Kansas City, Missouri
Raymond B. Bragg
Edwin Arthur Burtt
Cornell University
Ernest Caldecott
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles
A. J. Carlson
University of Chicago
John Dewey
Columbia University
Albert C. Dieffenbach
Christian Register

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