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Basic ideas of humanists |
| Explore and challenge all areas of thought |
| Make no claims to possess or have access to transcendent knowledge |
| Reject arbitrary faith, authority, revelation and altered states of consciousness |
| Recognize that intuitive feelings, hunches, flashes of inspiration, and emotion may
lead to new ways of looking at the world |
| Regard human values as making sense only in the context of human life |
| Be concerned with meeting human needs and answering human problems |
| Recognize the existence of moral dilemmas |
| Accepts contemporary scientific concepts |
| Accepts today's enlightened social thought |
| Accepts new technological developments |
| Is a philosophy for those in love with life |
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