What does the conceptual framework of humanism and adjustment have to offer us?
Part II of II
...It was the individual that loved and sang, not the species.
Sure it was the species that created the choir, but without the uniqueness of each individual voice, the whole meant nothing.
As such, it was the individual upon whom we centered our attention as we addressed the issues of racism, genderism, sexualism, genocide, capital punishment, assisted suicide, cloning…
Our efforts were being focused into what we had been drifting towards for thousands of years – the individual matters most.
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Our attention encompassed more than the physical individual, however.
Our attention focused in upon the essence of the individual.
Religion seemed to be far ahead of science and philosophy in this regard.
For thousands of years, religion held to the concept of the essence being nonphysical. Science, after centuries of searching, appears to be heading in this direction (see Set Theory), and philosophy seems to be on the verge of accepting this idea.
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