Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 497.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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[1] From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" <weinshan@cse.msu.edu> (29)
Subject: Re: 14.0492 now here's a question
[2] From: Randall Pierce <rpierce@jsucc.jsu.edu> (6)
Subject: humanism and humanists
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:15:45 +0000
From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" <weinshan@cse.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: 14.0492 now here's a question
Dee McAree raises an interesting question to which
I want to offer a non-conventional answer.
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:10:00 +0000
From: Dee McAree <virtuallydee@yahoo.com>
As a newbie to Humanist, my only question would be as
to the definition of one. It would help me stay within
the scope of pertinent contributions. I've searched
several on-line dictionaries for an official reading,
but came up blank. I would love a first-hand account
of the philosophy or character that the word embodies
from Humanists themselves. I'm still trying to
determine if I am one.
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While it is true that we share an interest in the interface
between computing and the Humanities, I would hold that
we really are an "invisible college" in Boulding's sense.
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There is in the world today an invisible college of people
in many different countries and many different cultures, who
have a vision of the nature of the transition through which
we are passing and who are determined to devote their lives
to contributing towards its successful fulfillment. It is
a college without a founder and without a president, without
buildings and without organization. Its living representatives
hold the future of the world in their hands or at least in
their minds...Kenneth E. Boulding ,The meaning of the twentieth
century; the great transition New York, Harper & Row [1964]
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:16:24 +0000
From: Randall Pierce <rpierce@jsucc.jsu.edu>
Subject: humanism and humanists
To my way of thinking, a humanist is primarily interested in those
concepts that butress those values that contribute to the humane and
beneficent development and evolution of man. Any social forces or
philosophies which denigrate the dignity and worth of the individual man
are anethema to the genuine humanist. And, since "Knowledge is Power",
the more we can know simply enhances our ability to strengthen the
humanist principle. One such tool is, of course, hypertext. Randall
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