Welcome to my site!
This site is about people, society and secular humanism — a worldview which proclaims human beings, their right to happiness, development and manifestation of their positive abilities as the highest value.
The site contains my thoughts and reflections on topical issues, as well as the opinions of others, whose ideas are interesting to me.
The site provides information from different areas: ideas of humanism, social evolution, human rights and fundamental freedoms, history, religion, science, technology etc.
Russian is the main language; some materials and data will be available in English.
Igor Pivovar
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What is Secular Humanism?
According to the IHEU Minimum Statement on Humanism, humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance that affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives. Humanism stands for the building of a more humane society through an ethics based on human and other natural values in a spirit of reason and free inquiry through human capabilities. Humanism is not theistic, and it does not accept supernatural views of reality.
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Humanist program documents:
⇒ Neo-Humanist Statement of Secular Pronciples and Values: Personal, Progressive, and Planetary (2010)
⇒ The Amsterdam Declaration (2002)
⇒ A Secular Humanist Declaration (1980)
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Humanist organizations:
⇒ International Humanist and Ethical Union
⇒ International Humanist Ethical Youth Organization
⇒ European Humanist Federation
⇒ American Humanist Association
⇒ Council for Secular Humanism
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Personalities:
Paul Kurtz — was a prominent American skeptic and secular humanist. He has been called «the father of secular humanism»
Article in Wikipedia
Personal site — http://paulkurtz.net/
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Richard Dawkins — is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer. Dawkins is a noted atheist, a patron of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement, and is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design.
Article in Wikipedia
Personal site — https://richarddawkins.net/
Twitter — https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins
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Stephen Hawking — was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
Article in Wikipedia
Personal site — http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/stephenhawking
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Lawrence Krauss — is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is known as an advocate of the public understanding of science, of public policy based on sound empirical data, of scientific skepticism and of science education and works to reduce the impact of what he opines as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture.
Article in Wikipedia
Personal site — http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/
Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/Lawrence-M-Krauss-54809333509
Twitter — https://twitter.com/lkrauss1
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Sam Harris — is an American author, neuroscientist and philosopher. Harris is a critic of religion and proponent of scientific skepticism and the «New Atheism». He is also an advocate for the separation of church and state, freedom of religion, and the liberty to criticize religion.
Article in Wikipedia
Personal site — http://www.samharris.org/
Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/Sam-Harris-22457171014
Twitter — https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg
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