In that RG platform, without borders, boundaries, where we enthusiastically mix up disciplines, cultures, experiences, ain't we building up a kind of joyful new humanism?
My answer is:
http://csermelyblog.tehetsegpont.hu/sites/default/files/angol%20sirály.pdf
:)
@Fred Romano
Yes, of course, that is the humanism that scholars have cultivated among themselves for centuries. Open to all who want to join in, but who are practically afflicted with hurdles to education or economic obstacles, that all would participate or even be interested in it. The position of the needs, for the removal of the need of the life proceeds. Irony, self-irony and often a joke are not alien to us. But for me this is always only one side of pleasure. The other side is to contradict all those who have a clear thesis - i.e. present no picture or analogy - with good arguments, if after examination of all details a weak point of the argumentation appears. This is normal science.
Because science does not have religion or culture; it is kind of humanism.
Sciene may help the humans to live their short life, and it was always helping to kill humans and detroy our earth.
Edmund Weber Is it science's fault? No, it's the fault of a small group of unscrupulous scientists and traders.
I think so. Humanism must be joyful. Academia (vetus, recens) longa, vita brevis.
The scientist is working for his salary and the servants od that" people"are paying it.- Thousend of years the humans lived "joyful" - like the mankind is now living "joyful"- without a science naymore led by reason but by the abstract human product capital. What wonderful world od joy is meant?
I'm not sure those living in the slums of London in the 16th century found an abundance of joy; as for modern 'joy'', I luckily have it, but the horde of homeless in our streets indicates too many can't find it.
Fred Romano
Okay, no objections, it's an individual decision. The adjective to "humanism" to characterize it more closely, is freely selectable. Most people prefer to laugh rather than cry from pain or anger or grief. But I think it's okay to question the eternal smile and well-being that all photos of people usually show to the public. To always have to be happy is indeed not everyone's cup of tea, I agree.
Joyful humanism remembers a little to Nietzsche's "Happy Science". That means, it could be that there ist a trace of irony or self-irony.
When I was young I worked in a research laboratory by 1976, on blood plaquettes in Paris. It was a time nobody wanted to respond answers and secrets were jealously kept. To read a document in whatever library cost 3 ex. formularies hand-written and 2-weeks waiting. To get to know interesting research, you had to get personally close to the ones that moved them (mostly men), so women's role was often reduced to a great make-up art. In any case there was not a single possibility to only express an original thought, and less even for a woman not looking for an husband. Other cultures scientists were under-contracted in despite of their non recognized years of study and if they express their own theories, they would be laughed about for "trying to grab the popular interest" by questioning the academic knowledge. Thanks Internet, thanks whoever, times had changed and this rg platform is one of the proofs. That's why there's plenty of reasons to be joyful.
To all:
I agree, we need an idea of humanism which has joyful aspects. But at the moment, our humane thoughts are concerned with the case of an journalist who disappeared after entering the embassy of another country and whose assassination already appears as a fact in the media. Our humane concern as scientists cannot be determined only by "peace, joy and friendship" in view of the prevailing violence and the interest in obstructing free journalism. Hugs sometimes cannot always end joyfully, but with a dagger in the back. But of course it is important that relief and joy also have their place in our world.
Hein Retter
Joy is something that may happen in human mind in despite of adverse circumstances. I'm sure Nelson Mandela could feel joy in his cell, remembering the poem "I'm the captain of my soul". Joy is the ultimate wall against madness. Once you loose joy, you're almost dead.
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