Humanist Manifesto II

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Humanist Manifesto II

In 1973, Humanist Manifesto II, which further outlined humanist aims “as we approach the twenty-first century,” was signed by several hundred individuals including Isaac Asimov, Sir Alfred Ayer, Paul Edwards, James Farmer, Antony Flew, Betty Friedan, Sidney Hook, Sir Julian Huxley, Jacques Monod, Herbert J. Muller, Gunnar Myrdal, A. Philip Randolph, Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, and Edwin H. Wilson.

As did Humanist Manifesto I, it contained recommendations for the future of humankind in the areas of religion and ethics. Both manifestos also delineated humanist views on the meaning of life, civil liberties and democracy, the right to suicide, abortion, and divorce, euthanasia, sexual freedom, worldwide ecological and economic planning, and the building of world community.

Signers of Humanist Manifesto II, as listed in Humanist Manifestos I and II (Prometheus), are as follows:

Lionel Abel, Prof. of English, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo

Khoren Arisian, Board of Leaders, NY Soc. for Ethical Culture

Isaac Asimov, author

George Axtelle, Prof. Emeritus, Southern Illinois Univ.

Archie J. Bahm, Prof. of Philosophy Emeritus, Univ. of N.M.

Paul H. Beattie, Pres., Fellowship of Religious Humanists

Keith Beggs, Exec. Dir., American Humanist Association

Malcolm Bissell, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Southern California

H. J. Blackham, Chm., Social Morality Council, Great Britain

Brand Blanshard, Prof. Emeritus, Yale University

Paul Blanshard, author

Joseph L. Blau, Prof. of Religion, Columbia University

Sir Hermann Bondi, Prof. of Math., King's Coll., Univ. of London

Howard Box, Leader, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture

Raymond B. Bragg, Minister Emer., Unitarian Ch., Kansas City

Theodore Brameld, Visiting Prof., C.U.N.Y.

Brigid Brophy, author, Great Britain

Lester R. Brown, Senior Fellow, Overseas Development Council

Betty Chambers, Pres., American Humanist Association

John Ciardi, poet

Francis Crick, M.D., Great Britain

Arthur Danto, Prof. of Philosophy, Columbia University

Lucien de Coninck, Prof., University of Gand, Belgium

Miriam Allen deFord, author

Edd Doerr, Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Peter Draper, M.D., Guy's Hospital Medical School, London

Paul Edwards, Prof. of Philosophy, Brooklyn College

Albert Ellis, Exec. Dir., Inst. Adv. Study Rational Psychotherapy

Edward L. Ericson, Board of Leaders, NY Soc. of Ethical Culture

H. J. Eysenck, Prof. of Psychology, Univ. of London

Roy P. Fairfield, Coordinator, Union Graduate School

Herbert Feigl, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Minnesota

Raymond Firth, Prof. Emeritus of Anthropology, Univ. of London

Antony Flew, Prof. of Philosophy, The Univ., Reading, England

Kenneth Furness, Exec. Secy., British Humanist Association

Erwin Gaede, Minister, Unitarian Church, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Richard S. Gilbert, Minister, First Unitarian Ch., Rochester, N.Y.

Charles Wesley Grady, Minister, Unit. Univ. Ch., Arlington, Ma.

Maxine Greene, Prof., Teachers College, Columbia University

Thomas C. Greening, Editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology

Alan F. Guttmacher, Pres., Planned Parenthood Fed. of America

J. Harold Hadley, Min., Unit. Univ. Ch., Pt. Washington, N.Y.

Hector Hawton, Editor, Questions, Great Britain

A. Eustace Haydon, Prof. Emeritus of History of Religions

James Hemming, Psychologist, Great Britain

Palmer A. Hilty, Adm. Secy., Fellowship of Religious Humanists

Hudson Hoagland, Pres. Emeritus, Worcester Fdn. for Exper. Bio

Robert S. Hoagland, Editor, Religious Humanism

Sidney Hook, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy, New York University

James F. Hornback, Leader, Ethical Society of St Louis

James M Hutchinson, Minister Emer., First Unit. Ch., Cincinnati

Mordecai M. Kaplan, Rabbi, Founder of Jewish Reconstructionist Movement

John C. Kidneigh, Prof. of Social Work., Univ. of Minnesota

Lester A. Kirdendall, Prof. Emeritus, Oregon State Univ.

Margaret Knight, Univ. of Aberdeen, Scotland

Jean Kotkin, Exec. Secy., American Ethical Union

Richard Kostelanetz, poet

Paul Kurtz, Editor, The Humanist

Lawrence Lader, Chm., Natl. Assn. for Repeal of Abortion Laws

Edward Lamb, Pres., Lamb Communications, Inc.

Corliss Lamont, Chm., Natl. Emergency Civil Liberties Comm.

Chauncey D. Leake, Prof., Univ. of California, San Francisco

Alfred McC. Lee, Prof. Emeritus, Soc.-Anthropology, C.U.N.Y.

Elizabeth Briant Lee, author

Christopher Macy, Dir., Rationalist Press Assn., Great Britain

Clorinda Margolis, Jefferson Comm. Mental Health Cen., Phila.

Joseph Margolis, Prof. of Philosophy, Temple Univ.

Harold P. Marley, Ret. Unitarian Minister

Floyd W. Matson, Prof. of American Studies, Univ. of Hawaii

Lester Mondale, former Pres., Fellowship of Religious Humanists

Lloyd Morain, Pres., Illinois Gas Company

Mary Morain, Editorial Bd., Intl. Soc. of General Semantics

Charles Morris, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Florida

Henry Morgentaler, M.D., Past Pres., Humanist Assn. of Canada

Mary Mothersill, Prof. of Philosophy, Bernard College

Jerome Nathanson, Chm. Bd. of Leaders, NY Soc. Ethical Culture

Billy Joe Nichols, Minister, Richardson Unitarian Church, Texas

Kai Nielsen, Prof. of Philosophy, Univ. of Calgary, Canada

P. H. Nowell-Smith, Prof. of Philosophy, York Univ., Canada

Chaim Perelman, Prof. of Philosophy, Univ. of Brussels, Belgium

James W. Prescott, Natl, Inst. of Child Health and Human Dev.

Harold J. Quigley, Leader, Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago

Howard Radest, Prof. of Philosophy, Ramapo College

John Herman Randall, Jr., Prof. Emeritus, Columbia Univ.

Oliver L. Reiser, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Robert G. Risk, Pres., Leadville Corp.

Lord Ritchie-Calder, formerly Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland

B. T. Rocca, Jr., Consultant, Intl. Trade and Commodities

Andre H. Sakharov, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Sidney H. Scheuer, Chm., Natl, Comm. for an Effective Congress

Herbert W. Schneider, Prof. Emeritus, Claremont Grad. School

Clinton Lee Scott, Universalist Minister, St Petersburgh, Fla.

Roy Wood Sellars, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Michigan

A. B. Shah, Pres., Indian Secular Society

B. F. Skinner, Prof. of Psychology, Harvard Univ.

Kenneth J. Smith, Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society

Matthew Ies Spetter, Chm., Dept. Ethics, Ethical Culture Schools

Mark Starr, Chm., Esperanto Info. Center

Svetozar Stojanovic, Prof. Philosophy, Univ. Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Harold Taylor, Project Director, World University Student Project

V. T. Thayer, author

Herbert A. Tonne, Ed. Board, Journal of Business Education

Jack Tourin, Pres., American Ethical Union

E. C. Vanderlaan, lecturer

J. P. van Praag, Chm., Intl. Humanist and Ethical Union, Utrecht

Maurice B. Visscher, M.D., Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Minnesota

Goodwin Watson, Assn. Coordinator, Union Graduate School

Gerald Wendt, author

Henry N. Wieman, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Chicago

Sherwin Wine, Rabbi, Soc. for Humanistic Judaism

Edwin H. Wilson, Ex. Dir. Emeritus, American Humanist Assn.

Bertram D. Wolfe, Hoover Institution

Alexander S. Yesenin-Volpin, mathematician

Marvin Zimmerman, Prof. of Philosophy, State Univ. NY at Bflo.

Additional Signers

Gina Allen, author

John C. Anderson, Humanist Counselor

Peter O. Anderson, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

William F. Anderson, Humanist Counselor

John Anton, Professor, Emory University

Sir Alfred Ayer, Professor, Oxford, Great Britain

Celia Baker

Ernest Baker, Associate Professor, University of the Pacific

Marjorie S. Baker, Ph.D.,Pres., Humanist Community of San Francisco

Henry S. Basayne, Assoc. Exec. Off., Assn. for Humanistic Psych.

Walter Behrendt, Vice Pres., European Parliament, W. Germany

Robert O. Boothe, Prof. Emer., Cal. Polytechnic

W. Bonness, Pres. Bund Freirelgioser Gemeinden, Germany

Clement A. Bosch

Madeline L. Bosch

Bruni Boyd, Vice Pres., American Ethical Union

J. Lloyd Brereton, ed., Humanist in Canada

Nancy Brewer, Humanist Counselor

D. Bronder, Bund Freirelgioser Gemeinden, West Germany

Charles Brownfield, Asst. Prof., Queensborough Community College, CUNY

Costantia Brownfield, R. N.

Margaret Brown, Assoc. Prof., Oneonta State Univ. College

Beulah L. Bullard, Humanist Counselor

Joseph Chuman, Leader, Ethical Soc. of Essex Co.

Gordon Clanton, Asst. Prof., Trenton State College

Daniel S. Collins, Leader, Unitarian Fellowship of Jonesboro, Ark.

Wm Creque, Pres., Fellowship of Humanity, Oakland, Ca.

M. Benjamin Dell, Dir., Amer. Humanist Assn.

James Durant IV, Prof., Polk Comm. College Winter Haven, Fla.

Gerald A. Ehrenreich, Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Kansas School of Medicine

Marie Erdmann, Teacher, Campbell Elementary School

Robert L. Erdmann, Ph.D., IBM

Hans S. Falck, Disting. Professor, Menninger Foundation

James Farmer, Director, Public Policy Training Institute

Ed Farrar

Joe Felmet, Humanist Counselor

Thomas Ferrick, Leader, Ethical Society of Boston

Norman Fleishman, Exec. Vice Pres., Planned Parenthood World Population, Los Angeles

Joseph Fletcher, Visiting Prof., Sch. of Medicine, Univ. of Virginia

Douglas Frazier, Leader, American Ethical Union

Betty Friedan, Founder, N.O.W.

Harry M. Geduld, Professor, Indiana University

Roland Gibson, President, Art Foundation of Potsdam. N.Y.

Aron S. Gilmartin, Minister, Mt. Diablo Unitarian Church, Walnut Creek, Ca.

Anabelle Glasser, Director, American Ethical Union

Rebecca Goldblum, Director, American Ethical Union

Louis R. Gomberg, Humanist Counselor

Harold N. Gordon, Vice President, American Ethical Union

Sol Gordon, Professor, Syracuse University

Theresa Gould, American Ethical Union

Gregory O. Grant, Captain, USAF

Ronald Green, Asst. Professor, New York University

LeRue Grim, Secretary, American Humanist Association

S. Spencer Grin, Publisher, Saturday Review/World

Josephine R. Gurbarg, Secy., Humanist Society of Greater Philadelphia

Samuel J. Garbarg

Lewis M. Gubrud, Executive Director, Mediators Fellowship, Providence, R.I.

Frank A. Hall, Minister, Murray Univ. Church, Attleboro, Mass.

Harold Hansen, President, Space Coast Chapter, AHA

Abul Hasanat, Secretary, Bangladesh Humanist Society

Ethelbert Haskins, Director, American Humanist Association

Lester H. Hayes, Public Relations Director, American Income Life Insurance Company

Donald E. Henshaw, Humanist Counselor

Alex Hershaft, Principal Scientist, Booz Allen Applied Research

Ronald E. Hestand, author and columnist

Irving Louis Horowitz, editor, Society

Warren S. Hoskins, Humanist Counselor

Mark W. Huber, Director, American Ethical Union

Harold J. Hutchinson, Humanist Counselor

Sir Julian Huxley, former head, UNESCO, Great Britain

Arthur M. Jackson, Exec. Dir., Humanist Community of San Jose;

Treasurer, American Humanist Association

Linda R. Jackson, Director, American Humanist Association

Steven Jacobs, former President, American Ethical Union

Thomas B. Johnson, Jr., consulting psychologist

Robert Edward Jones, Exec. Dir., Joint Washington Office for Social Concern

Marion Kahn, Pres., Humanist Society of Metropolitan New York

Alec E. Kelley, Professor, University of Arizona

Marvin Kohl, Professor, SUNY at Fredonia

Frederick C. Kramer, Humanist Counselor

Eugene Kreves, Minister, DuPage Unit. Church, Naperville, Ill.

Pierre Lamarque, France

Helen B. Lamb, economist

Jerome D. Lang, Pres., Humanist Assoc. of Greater Miami, Fla.

Harvey Lebrun, Chairman, Chapter Assembly, AHA

Helen Leibson, President, Philadelphia Ethical Society

John F. MacEnulty, Jr., Pres., Humanist Soc. of Jacksonville, Fla.

James T. McCollum, Humanist Counselor

Vashti McCollum, former President of AHA

Russell L. McKnight, Pres., Humanist Association of Los Angeles

Ludlow P. Mahan, Jr., Pres., Humanist Chapter of Rhode Island

Andrew Malleson, M.D., psychiatrist

Clem Martin, M.D.

James R. Martin, Humanist Counselor

Stanley E. Mayabb, Co-Fndr.; Humanist Group of Vacaville and Men's Colony,

San Louis Obispo

Zhores Medvedev, scientist, U.S.S.R.

Abeldardo Mena, M.D., senior psychiatrist, V.A. Hospital, Miami, Fla.

Jacques Monod, Institut Pasteur, France

Herbert J. Muller, Professor, University of Indiana

Robert J. Myler, Title Officer, Title Insurance & Trust Company

Gunnar Myrdal, Professor, University of Stockholm, Sweden

H. Kyle Nagel, Minister, Unit. Univ. Church of Kinston, N.C.

Dorothy N. Naiman, Professor Emerita, Lehman College, CUNY

Muriel Neufeld, Executive Committee, American Ethical Union

Walter B. Neumann, Treasurer, American Ethical Union

G. D. Parikh, Indian Radical Humanist Association, India

Eleanor Wright Pelrine, author, Canada

Bernard Porter, President, Toronto Humanist Association

William Earl Proctor, Jr., President, Philadelphia area, AHA

Gonzalo Quiogue, Vice Pres., Humanist Assn. of the Philippines

James A. Rafferty, Lecturer, USIU School of Human Behavior

Anthony F. Rand, President, Humanist Society of Greater Detroit

Philip Randolph, President, A. Philip Randolph Institute

Ruth Dickinson Reams, President, Humanist Association National Capital Area

Jean-Francois Revel, journalist, France

Bernard L. Riback, Humanist Counselor

B. T. Rocca, Sr., President, United Secularists of America

M. L. Rosenthal, Professor, New York University

Jack C. Rubenstein, Executive Committee, AEU

Joseph R. Sanders, Professor, University of West Florida

William Schulz, Ph.D. cand., Meadville/Lombard, Univ. of Chicago

Walter G. Schwartz, Dir., Humanist Com. of San Francisco

John W. Sears, clinical psychologist

Naomi Shaw, Pres., National Women's Conference, AEU

R. L. Shuford, III, Instructor, Charlotte County Day School

Sidney Siller, Chm. Comm. for Fair Divorce and Alimony Laws

Joell Silverman, Chm., Religious Education Committee, AEU

Warren A. Smith, Pres., Variety Sound Corp, New York City

A. Solomon, coordinator, Indian Secular Society

Robert M. Stein, Co-Chairman, Public Affairs Committee, AEU

Stuart Stein, Director, American Ethical Union

Robert Stone

Arnold E Sylvester

Emerson Symonds, Director, Sensory Awareness Center

Carolyn Symonds, marriage counselor

Ward Tabler, Visiting Professor, Starr King School

Barbara M. Tabler

V. M. Tarkunde, Pres., All Indian Radical Humanist Assn., India

Irwin Theobold, Instructor, Pasadena City College

Ernest N. Ukpaby, Dean, University of Nigeria

Renate Vambery, Ethical Soc. of St. Louis, President, AHA St Louis Chapter

Nick D. Vasileff, St. Louis Ethical Society

Robert J. Wellman, Humanist Chaplain, C. W. Post Center, Long Island University

May H. Weis, UN Representative for IHEU

Paul D. Weston, Leader, Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County

Georgia H. Wilson, retired, Political Sc. Dept., Brooklyn College

H. Van Rensselaer Wilson, Prof., Emer., Brooklyn College

James E. Woodrow, Exec. Dir., Asgard Enterprises, Inc.

(See entries for Humanist Manifesto I and for Humanist Manifesto III.)