Discussions of Humanism

Introducing Humanism (Short videos)

● Introduction to Humanism (2 x 6 min videos) Part 1 🔗 Part 2 🔗
● What is Humanism? (5 mins) — with AC Grayling
● All we have is each other (3 mins) — with Janet Ellis
● One Life, Live it Well (3 mins) — with Alice Roberts
● Every human Being (1 min) — with Stephen Fry
● Humanism and 'the good life' (4 mins) — with AC Grayling
● What should we think about death? (3 mins) — with Stephen Fry
● How do we know what's true? (3 mins) — with Stephen Fry
● What makes something right or wrong? (3 mins) — with Stephen Fry
● How can I be happy? (3 mins) — with Stephen Fry
● How can I be happy? (8 mins) — A response to Stephen Fry. Does he really understand what Fry is saying?
● What humanists believe (8 mins) — with Professor Nichola Raihani
● Where do we come from? (4 mins) — with Alice Roberts
● Humanism vs Atheism (8 mins)
● Why I choose humanism over faith (10 mins) — with Leo Igwe
● Diversity within Humanism (4 mins) — with Professor Richard Norman on diversity of thinking within Humanism
● What is a Humanist? (2 mins)
● Humanism and Authority (4 mins)
● Most people do good because they want to do good (9 mins) — with Andrew Copson
● Is Atheism a Faith? (6 mins)
● What motivates humanist campaigners? (5 mins)
● The Humanists UK organisation (3 mins) — with Stephen Fry

Introducing Humanism (Longer videos)

● Introduction to Humanism (15 mins) — with Andrew Copson
● What I Believe (77 mins) — with Alice Roberts, Natalie Haynes, and Andrew Copson
● What makes us human? (22 mins) — with Professor Alice Roberts
● What is Humanism for? (47 mins) — with Richard Norman
● Humanism (57 mins) — with AC Grayling
● A safer basis for a cohesive society is values rather than beliefs — with Andrew Copson

Humanist Life

● Why humanism is the future (39 mins) — with David Voas
● Humanism and the Future (21 mins) — with Greg Claeys
● A life dedicated to human rights (90 mins) — Joan Bakewell interviews Peter Tatchell
● The Importance of happiness and how to get it (48 mins) —with Lord Layard
● Discovering global humanisms (44 mins) — Exploring new horizons in ethics and philosophy with Julian Baggini
● At the frontline of humanism (48 mins) — with Joan Bakewell and Andrew Copson
● Ray Tallis on 'Aping Mankind' (49 mins)

Humanist History

● Humanly Possible — Seven radical, humanist women throughout the past 700 years, with Sarah Bakewell
● Humanist history: from radical ideas to common sense
● Black Humanism
● 2021 census shows non-Christians outnumber believers (8 mins)
● Is science fiction a humanist genre? (62 mins)
● How 94 humanists rewrote Britain's moral laws (58 mins)

Ethics

● Morals Without Religion: the Unholy Mrs Knight —by Alice Roberts
● The problem of morality (39 mins) — Kenan Malik
● Philosopher Stephen Law explains why humanists reject moral relativism (5 mins)

Politics

● Towards a humanist politics (38 mins)
● Neil Kinnock on the humanist ideas behind the NHS (60 mind)

Atheism

● Atheists in the ancient world (4 mins) — by Tim Whitmarsh
● Atheism began before Christianity (55 mins)
● The Origins of Atheism (60 mins) — with Alec Ryrie
● Atheism before the Enlightenment — The doubters who risked everything
● Is Atheism a Religion? (12 mins)

Arguments for Agnosticism

● Arguments for agnosticism (4 min video) — with Leonard Susskind
● Arguments for agnosticism (7 min video) — with John Searl
● Agnostics struggle spiritually more than atheists (16 min video)
● How do atheists & agnosticsm compare? (7 min video)
● The real reasons why people become believers or atheists (16 min video)
● Why I'm an Agnostic with Alex O'Connor (10 min video)
● Why I call myself agnostic (5 min video)
● Arguing for Agnosticism (27 min video) — with Mark Vernon, Nick Bostrom, Leonard Susskind
● How to be a religious agnostic with Mark Vernon (45 min video)

Objections to Humanism

● Humanism and the critical spirit (60 mins) — with Julian Baggini
● Andrew Copson and Anne Atkins discussing 'militant secularism' (12 mins)
● Scrivener vs Dillahunty: Is humanism stealing from Christianity? (6 mins)

Religion

● God: An Anatomy &mash;with Francesca Stavrakopoulou and Andrew Copson
● Who needs religion? &mash;with Andrew Copson and Linda Woodhead

Humanist Songs?

Steve Martin says that 'Atheist don't have no songs' but here's a list of vaguely philosophical songs that Humanists might use in lieu of hymns!

● Atheists Don't Have No Songs by Steve Martin
● Monty Python Philosophers' Song
● Monty Python's Galaxy Song