Humanist Perspectives: issue 185, Summer 2013
Issue 185, Summer 2013
Humanist Perspectives is a refreshing, rational analysis of modern events and culture and is available at select magazine stores or by online subscription.
Editorial
- Eternal vigilance, the price of liberty
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It’s no exaggeration to say that every day in the news we are provided with ample fresh reminders of why the separation of church and state is such a profoundly good idea.
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Features
- Joe Piercy Remembered
- The passing of an Outstanding Canadian Humanist.
- Free Will: Fact or Fiction
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Men believe themselves to have free will because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. – Spinoza.
Read article online - My ovaries are not church property
- One of my favourite fantasies... is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church.
- Who Am I? More to the point, why am I who I think I am?
- The French philosopher René Descartes is best known for his cryptic statement “Je pense, donc je suis” (I think, therefore I am) – Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum – which has fuelled endless debate over what is real and what is not.
- The Trouble With Humanists
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How atheophobic attitudes among Humanists compromise the fight for freedom of conscience.
Read article online - Canadian Perspective on the US Financial Crisis, Part 1 of 2
- In spite of Goldman Sachs’ shameless conduct in the recent US credit crisis, President Obama has delivered a message yesterday to both Americans and Canadians by appointing Goldman Sachs partner Bruce Heyman as ambassador to Canada.
- A Poet’s Voice
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Monty Reid is an Ottawa writer. His most recent books are The Luskville Reductions (Brick) and Disappointment Island (Chaudiere). Chapbooks from his recent Garden sequence have been published by small presses in many countries, including England, France, Japan, the USA and Canada.
Read the poems online - Nuclear Power in Canada: Perception and Promise
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The most remarkable thing about this Canadian achievement is perhaps that hardly anyone in Canada knows about it.
Read article online - Henry Beissel reviews Deep Future by Curt Stager and Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
- It is rare that a work of fiction and a scientific study enter your field of vision at the same time, and as you browse through them you realize they’re intimately connected...
- In addition, Humanist Perspectives offers a lively "Letters-to-the-Editor" section as well as "Book Reviews", books available for review and snippets of international news of interest to humanists.