Humanly Possible
Book description
Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe
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The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Cafe explores 700 years of writers,…
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This book shocked me. It shouldn’t have, I knew that humanist ideas have been oppressed and their advocates killed and persecuted.
But reading about it in the course of history and how much of these ideas seem the most natural to me, are continuing to be challenged by official authorities and more subtle lobbies that shape social narratives was very eye opening.
Fighting for freedom will never be easy, but always be the most important thing we can do.
From Friederike's list on starting to think about the much abused idea of freedom.
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