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A Humanist Manifesto was written in 1933 primarily by Roy Wood Sellars and Raymond Bragg and was published with 34 signatories including philosopher John Dewey.Unlike later revisions, the first manifesto talked of a new "religion", and referred to humanism as a religious movement to transcend and replace previous religions that were based on allegations of supernatural revelation.
A Humanist Manifesto, also known as Humanist Manifesto I to distinguish it from later Humanist Manifestos in the series, was written in 1933 primarily by Raymond Bragg and published with 34 signers. Unlike the later manifestos, this first talks of a new religion and refers to humanism as "the religion of the future."
Was one of 21 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto. [6] John Dewey: Signer of the original Humanist Manifesto. [21] In 1954, the American Humanist Association named Dewey a Humanist Pioneer. [27] John H. Dietrich: Signer of the original Humanist Manifesto, [21] and was named a Humanist Pioneer by the American Humanist Association ...
Blau was one of the signers of A Secular Humanist Declaration in 1980. He was also one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. [2] He was a foreign member of the British Academy. He died in 1986 in Riverdale, New York. [1]
He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. [2] He was also an organizer, past president, and past secretary-treasurer of the New Mexico Philosophical Society. Bahm in 1933 contributed “A Religious Affirmation” to The New Humanist , listing items that “a person should”:
Edwin Henry Wilson (August 23, 1898 – March 26, 1993) was an American Unitarian leader and humanist who helped draft the Humanist Manifesto. Wilson was born on August 23, 1898, in Woodhaven, New York. He was raised in Concord, Massachusetts and graduated from the Meadville Theological School in 1926.
In 1974, the American Humanist Association named him Humanist of the Year. He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. [2] He served as president of the Euthanasia Society of America (later renamed the Society for the Right to Die) from 1974 to 1976.
In 1973 Muller was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II. [2] Muller's grandfather Otto Muller was the younger brother of Hermann J. Muller, the father of the American geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller Jr., and of Johanna Muller, the mother of the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and grandmother of the writer Ursula K. Le Guin.