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John Dewey — the name that carried the document.
He signed A Humanist Manifesto in 1933; Roy Wood Sellars and Raymond Bragg drafted it. Humanism has no founder and does not pretend otherwise.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
This life is the only one, and it is enough to be getting on with.
No supervision, no rescue, no second attempt. Humanists treat this as the ground of the ethics rather than a loss to be managed.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Whether humanism is a religion.
The 1933 Manifesto said yes, thirteen times over. The 2003 version drops the word. US courts have said yes for First Amendment purposes, which humanists find useful and irritating in roughly equal measure.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
A natural universe, knowable by inquiry, with no purpose supplied from outside
After death
None. Humanist funerals are explicit that this is the end, and are designed around that rather than around consolation.