{"id":3113,"date":"2013-02-17T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2015-02-18T08:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:41:13","slug":"2013-02-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2013-02-17\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Foundation for Civilization: Humanism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Arthur Jackson<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">February 17, 2013<\/font><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3184\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/arthur-jackson\/2013-02-24-2-arthur-jacks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3184\" alt=\"Arthur Jackson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-24-2-Arthur-Jacks.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-24-2-Arthur-Jacks.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-24-2-Arthur-Jacks-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 85vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Jackson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can humanism truly provide a foundation for a society? If not what would it take to do so? Arthur Jackson will lay out his best thinking on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur is current President of HCSV and Secretary for Humanist Society, AHA (the body that certifies Humanist Celebrants, Ministers, and Chaplains. He Chaired the IHEU Working Party on Humanist Counseling (1968-78). He is also the author of\u00a0<em> The Humanist Chapter of the Future and the Future of Humanism<\/em> (1982, 1993) and\u00a0 <em>How to Live the Good Life: A User\u2019s Guide for Modern Humans<\/em> (2011). He worked as AHA\u2019s Assistant Director (1965-69).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64111109\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/64111109\">Humanist Community Forum (2013-02-17): A New Foundation for Civilization: Humanism? (Arthur Jackson)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Jackson February 17, 2013 &nbsp; Can humanism truly provide a foundation for a society? If not what would it take to do so? Arthur Jackson will lay out his best thinking on this topic. Arthur is current President of HCSV and Secretary for Humanist Society, AHA (the body that certifies Humanist Celebrants, Ministers, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2013-02-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Foundation for Civilization: Humanism?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[46,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}