Humanism Philosophy
The Philosophy of Humanism
By Corliss Lamont (1902-1995)
Critical Review of the Humanist Worldview
Doctor of Religious Studies
Department Biblical Studies and Theology
By
Richard Jones
"There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods."
A worldview is a set of beliefs through which one interprets all of reality and provides a person with a means to explain the world around them. When evaluating the Humanist worldview, you do not go far before you run into Corliss Lamont and his book The …show more content…
That is from logic, formal fallacies, and classical proofs to the existence of God. The majority of the people we encounter in our day-to-day lives rarely operate at this level. They will usually operate from Level Two or Three. Level Two, which is cultural, influenced by the all forms of media (the arts, novels, Television, etc.) and the existential struggles in their imaginations. Level Three, what I call the prescriptive (founded on, by long-standing custom or usage ) level, where you are sitting across from a university (Christian) student at Starbucks who is struggling over a moral issue being discussed in his class. Then the student asks "What do you think about this issue?" and you reply, "You know Roman's chapter ones says ," when you quote the bible in Starbucks with this struggling student you are prescribing a long standing custom from a biblical perspective. This might be plausible in our Starbucks setting but not in the university setting. They are not concerned so much about what Roman's chapter one says, but more concerned about why you believe what Roman's says about this issue. So, when approaching the Humanist worldview such as Lamont's, we must be able to argue at Level One, illustrate at Level Two and apply at Level
By Corliss Lamont (1902-1995)
Critical Review of the Humanist Worldview
Doctor of Religious Studies
Department Biblical Studies and Theology
By
Richard Jones
"There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods."
A worldview is a set of beliefs through which one interprets all of reality and provides a person with a means to explain the world around them. When evaluating the Humanist worldview, you do not go far before you run into Corliss Lamont and his book The …show more content…
That is from logic, formal fallacies, and classical proofs to the existence of God. The majority of the people we encounter in our day-to-day lives rarely operate at this level. They will usually operate from Level Two or Three. Level Two, which is cultural, influenced by the all forms of media (the arts, novels, Television, etc.) and the existential struggles in their imaginations. Level Three, what I call the prescriptive (founded on, by long-standing custom or usage ) level, where you are sitting across from a university (Christian) student at Starbucks who is struggling over a moral issue being discussed in his class. Then the student asks "What do you think about this issue?" and you reply, "You know Roman's chapter ones says ," when you quote the bible in Starbucks with this struggling student you are prescribing a long standing custom from a biblical perspective. This might be plausible in our Starbucks setting but not in the university setting. They are not concerned so much about what Roman's chapter one says, but more concerned about why you believe what Roman's says about this issue. So, when approaching the Humanist worldview such as Lamont's, we must be able to argue at Level One, illustrate at Level Two and apply at Level