Humanism and Embodiment: From Cause and Effect to Secularism

by Susan E. Babbitt

Book Overview

A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target of secularists promoting freedom of enquiry and human community.

Susan Babbitt's original study presents humanism as a meta-ethical view, paralleling naturalistic realism in recent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474269214
• ISBN13: 9781474269216
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"