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1460: Andrew Copson on Human Beings and Meaning for Humanists

2025-11-26

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)

Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/09/21

2011: “Human beings make and sustain meaning for themselves.”

2013: “Meaning is created in life by human beings, not written into the universe waiting to be discovered.”

2015: “Nothing is exempt from human question.”

2018: “A non-religious approach to questions of value, meaning, and truth.”

2020: “I settle on saying that it is an approach to life.”

2020: “Humanists are all about confronting reality, finding solutions to problems through reason and evidence, and applying those solutions through cooperation.”

2021: “Humanists embrace science as the most effective tool in understanding our reality.”

2021: “Life is finite, death is the end of it. You will not be aware of it because you will not be.”

2021: “Spirituality for humanists… is not something in any way connected to anything outside of this physical universe.”

2022: “The humanist approach is about being free to live a happy and fulfilling life for ourselves and supporting others to do the same.”

2025: “Humanism, to me, is simply the best idea in the world.”

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