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SCOUT· 64%1h 21m·2023-03-27·Science231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 231
Human beings are small compared to the universe, but we're very important to ourselves. Humanism can be thought of as the idea that human beings are themselves the source of meaningfulness and mattering in our lives, rather than those being granted to us by some higher power. In today's episode, Sarah Bakewell…
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