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Virtue Signaling: Humanism and Politics - American Affairs Journal

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You have reached your limit of 1 free article this month. Please subscribe to receive unlimited access to this site. American Affairs Journal REVIEW ESSAY Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy by James Hankins Harvard University Press, 2019, 768 pages W ords, like books, have their fates, and the recent fate of the word “humanism” has been a strange one. Go to the website of the American Humanist Association (AHA)—mottos: “Good with­out a God”; “Advocating Progressive Values and Equality for Hu­manists, Atheists and Freethinkers”—and you will find it described as “an ethical and life-affirming philosophy free of belief in any gods and other supernatural forces.” You will also be told that humanism is “a worldview which says that reason and science are the best ways to understand the world around us.” Current concerns of the AHA include mitigating climate change, fighting for the rights of “secular wedding officiants,” and boycotting the Pledge of Allegiance unt

Spring 2020 / Volume IV, Number 1 REVIEW ESSAY Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy by James Hankins Harvard University Press, 2019, 768 pages W ords, like books, have their fates, and the recent fate of the word “humanism” has been a strange one. Go to the website of the American Humanist Association (AHA)—mottos: “Good with­out a God”; “Advocating Progressive Values and Equality for Hu­manists, Atheists and Freethinkers”—and you will find it described as “an ethical and life-affirming philosophy free of belief in any gods and other supernatural forces.” You will als

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