Secular humanism is an attempt to offer a common moral vision based on a nonreligious conception of what is most truly ‘human’.
Keywords: secular humanism; bioethics; pluralism; humanism; genetic choice
Secular Humanism
H Tristram Engelhardt, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Lisa M Rasmussen, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005890
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