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How to Live by Sarah Bakewell5/22/2023 In this sweeping new history, Sarah Bakewell, herself a lifelong humanist, illuminates the very personal, individual, and, well, human matter of humanism and takes readers on a grand intellectual adventure. The humanistic worldview-as clear-eyed and enlightening as it is kaleidoscopic and richly ambiguous-has inspired people for centuries to make their choices by principles of freethinking, intellectual inquiry, fellow feeling, and optimism. Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human
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