Josh Clark

Yeah.

Can we say what Livia titled this one?

She's been really killing it lately.

Go ahead.

That's right.

I was looking for that AHA definition because that put it about as good as anything in this whole article.

The American Humanist Association, is it an association?

Yeah, they put it like this.

It's a progressive philosophy of life that without theism or other supernatural beliefs, bit of a dig,

Affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good.

And of course, if you don't know what theism is, we're talking about, you know, religion and God.

So it's like, hey, you can be a good person and have a moral and ethical center and strive to do those things without God at the center of it.

Yeah, and as we'll see, it had kind of been tangled up with religion here and there until it kind of landed eventually where it did.

And we're going to talk a little bit about the history, though.

That term humanism goes back to at least Cicero in 1st century BCE Rome, when that very famous writer and I think lawyer and statesman used the word humanitas,

to describe like people developing or the development of these qualities, these virtuous qualities that Chuck will talk about, like a moral and ethical center, compassion, good judgment, like being a good person and doing good things.

Yeah, I mean, looking back, we apply the tag to a lot of different people.

We're going to talk about some of them, but yeah, they wouldn't have called themselves that then.

Petrarch was probably looked at as maybe the first humanist or the first modern man sometimes called.

And in the Renaissance, it was it was a pretty hot ticket, depending on what crowd you ran with.