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Humans have free will, moral conscience,

the ability to reason, aesthetic sensibility, and religious instinct

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Humanists believe that the learner

should be in control of his or her own destiny.

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In humanism, the motivation and ability to learn is intrinsic (i.e., self-motivated).

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Humanism is a belief that individuals control their own destinies through the application of their intelligence and learning.

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When it comes to education, humanism emphasizes that knowledge and instruction come first rather than the student. Rather than schools meeting students' needs, students are expected to conform to schools.

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Humanism is a method of learning about the natural world and the destiny of humans that also provides a foundation for materialism, as opposed to revelation or religious authority.

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As far as Humanists are concerned, the soul does not exist. Inference is an invalid method of knowledge, so one cannot and does not sense the soul, nor can one prove it exists.

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The metaphysics of humanism refers to the mind as existing apart from the soul. However, the mind is thought of as consciousness in its knowing role, which is not distinct from the body. The soul is the body plus consciousness, and the mind is consciousness in its experiencing role.

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Humanistic theories of knowing suggest that causal laws do not exist. Everything enters and leaves the world based on its own nature; everything is a chance. Even nature itself is not constant; it is vulnerable to change.

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Humanism accepted sense perception as the only reliable source of knowledge. Humanists acknowledge that there are no reliable ways to learn things by intuition, hunches, speculation, inspiration flashes, emotion, altered states of consciousness, or even religious experiences.

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Humanism is an existential philosophy. Humanists believe that human values only make meaning within the framework of human life, not in the prospect of the afterlife

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Humanists are dedicated to upholding civil liberties, human rights, the separation of church and state, expanding participatory democracy in the workplace and in education, raising global awareness and promoting international trade in goods and ideas, and taking an open-ended approach to addressing social issues that permits the testing of new approaches.

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Humans are in charge of what we are and will become, despite the fact that there is a lot we do not know. We have to save ourselves; no god can save us. "We can discover no divine purpose or providence for the human species"