Evolutionary Humanism

The concept of evolutionary humanism denotes a newer, scientistic embossed flow within the humanistic world views. It is historically attributed to Julian Huxley, the first Director General of UNESCO, which gave its name to this flow, arguing for a new religion that was compatible with science.

Conceptual history

Main features of the evolutionary humanism are the opinion of their representatives a critical- naturalistic worldview, secularism and a rational ethics based general as distinct from traditional, religion-based morality. This ethic is against the postulation of immutable dogmas and sees moral behavior in an evolutionary process to understand who can adapt to new knowledge gains and changed social events must. In addition, the evolutionary humanism of speciesist and Social Darwinian worldviews demarcates who want to basically put the interests of different species or individuals of a different weight.

In Germany, the concept of evolutionary humanism is closely connected with the Giordano Bruno Foundation, which sees itself as a think tank of this flow. On behalf of the Foundation Foundation spokesman Michael Schmidt -Salomon took the manifesto of evolutionary humanism retrying a summary of viewpoints from the perspective of evolutionary humanism. This specification under the evolutionary humanism differs " from its traditional predecessors is that it numerous new scientific evidence ( including the associated fundamental grievances ) processed productive and thus starts from a fundamentally revised people and the world ."