AUTHENTIC HUMANISM

AUTHENTIC HUMANISM : 

AUTHENTIC HUMANISM WHO ARE WE?

Definition of Terms : 

Definition of Terms Humanism – concept/view of person which believes in the primacy of the human being eg. Actualization of human potentials, enhancement of human experience and contribution to happiness, social justice, democracy, and peaceful world.

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Authentic – for all people for all aspects of human life for all times

In Relation to SELF : 

In Relation to SELF Has Intellect and Free Will Has Dignity Is Created in the Image and Likeness of God Is Ambivalent Is Limited Is Unique

In Relation to Fellow Humans : 

In Relation to Fellow Humans Is a Social Being Is of Equal Value with Other Persons

In Relation to Society : 

In Relation to Society Is an Intervenor Is a Patriot

In Relation to the Material World : 

In Relation to the Material World Is a Material Being Is a Worker Is a Caretaker Is Above Material Things

In Relation to God : 

In Relation to God Is Transcendent Has a Conscience Is Dependent on God Is a Child of God

LIBERATING LOVE : 

LIBERATING LOVE Though I preach the sacred value of human life, If I sit on my hands and watch the oppression of my people, I am a hypocrite. Though I approve the goals of human liberation and profess love for freedom, If I do not act on this love, it is worthless. Though I think I can tell which way the wind is blowing, if I let the moment to act pass me by, I betray the imperative to love. The people have suffered long, charity serves barely to keep them alive.

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Charity by itself defused the will of the people to act. Love is not defined from a book or a tradition. True love abhors evil, it rejoices in the struggle for the good. On the path to triumph, love can bear all things, will hope all things: It will not surrender. Our need for justice and human dignity is as dear as life itself: if there are political slogans they shall fade away: if there are exploitative economic systems they shall crumble and be changed. For mankind cannot live by slogans alone.

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Person’s right to freedom and dignity is a gift from God, thus when people together demand liberation, that which oppresses shall give way. For before I knew what it meant to have dignity, I could neither see clearly nor love freely. But when I began to struggle, I discovered the true meaning of Love. When we were slaves, we spoke as slaves, we understood as slaves, we thought as slaves but as we became free, we cast of all the chains of servitude.

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So Faith, Love and Hope must abide, these three: but without freedom and dignity they remain hollow shadows.

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Thank you for your time and attention throughout the discussion…