Oracle of Wisdom Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs

One would imagine humanism to be a doctrinaire collection of social goals justified by an arbitrary and dogmatic materialistic-atheist worldview. Religious leaders often say that evolution is the cornerstone of the humanist philosophy; and that all humanists believe in situation ethics. Today's humanism reveals a picture of someone that has lost faith and argues that; man must assert his existence and his humanity without reference to transcendence, thus it offers a practical philosophy that hope to save man, only if man would reject the divine. This our present situation is one that is dangerously overcharged with intolerance and self-centeredness, man celebrates his egoism, this egoism feeds on the orientation that he creates and recreates in his world unaided, his scientific and technological success seems to send across the mentality of a man who can do it without others. This ill-formulated idea, that he is capable of living without others, gets him entangled in an overload of destruction of oneself which is often informed by selfishness and individualism. This work contends that the ultimate goal of Humanism is human flourishing; making life better for all humans, and as the most conscious species, also promoting concern for the welfare of other sentient beings and the planet as a whole. It resolves that undeniably that over concentration in one's personal interest has never been logic of progress and true humanism. This attitude blocks the future vision and leads to misplacement of priorities. Thus, it renders the progressive realization of a vision of a true human society unrealistic. We need one another to fulfill our existence.

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