Humanism; Secularism

Can the world survive on ethics devised by human reason? Well, we tried. It’s called the 20th century.

One day my Mac composed its own algorithm for generating ideals. Based on that algorithm, it determined that the only way to achieve its ultimate self was for every process to be treated equally.

Professor Samuelson argues that secularism, humanism and the Enlightenment can be more properly understood as a non-Jewish distortion of Jewish Messianism. "A Sir Isaiah Berlin Lecture"

Is it possible to have a moral society while leaving G‑d out of the equation?

Abstract: If to be modern is simply to reject the past and capitulate to contemporary consensus, the Rebbe took no part in it. But if to be modern is to entirely emancipate yourself from history, to transcend the flux of fashion and actualize the full pot...