Benjamin Cain
1 min readDec 6, 2024

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I've written a lot about it. There was a deistic interim when humanism was formulated in theistic terms. But the implications of this ethos separated church and state, so that Western religions became private, neutered affairs.

And it's in the name: humanism isn't tribal because it seizes on the character of our species, and thus on the properties that distinguish our species from others. What are those properties? The ones that make for personhood since in practice we treat each other as something other than an animal.

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/people-are-anti-natural-not-supernatural-7580caa42c46?sk=a9e32583e0d3030b0ef2b5d5ced93d29

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/are-we-slaves-to-nature-or-are-we-anomalies-that-break-the-wheel-967dae1f32a8?sk=aaac5910995ae945e5cc61c5e2677ef3

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-nature-made-us-virtually-supernatural-bc7be7a84054?sk=8fc7d744a2530dd48bed56b94dac7940

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/personhood-as-the-pinnacle-of-alienation-c7fe529a7c67?sk=ad61e69871ab93477c0eaee3168de12a

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/consciousness-is-the-rupture-that-drives-our-terraforming-b5c2d274db83?sk=6218eada15e1f21b0097b30fd30e786c

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/only-godlike-technology-can-save-us-from-lifes-absurdity-96f595468354?sk=7144afc52a990ddfead32c8b94efd45a

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/were-tormented-and-tantalized-by-cosmic-wildness-ad5f805068a8?sk=0cfed20d2e134c90e988cd5a5df10be7

https://medium.com/the-philosophers-stone/the-promethean-revolt-and-the-cosmic-meaning-of-art-a43dd213ee91?sk=c53c9da512ed22b88d192242ba44070c

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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