EDITOR'S PREFACE 1

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

Humanism in Historical Perspective 6

Will Durant

PANEL I:

Does Humanism Have an Ethic of Responsibility? 11

Paul Kurtz

Comment by Storer 25

Reply by Kurtz 26

Comment by Nielsen 27

Reply by Kurtz 29

Comment by Marković 31

Reply by Kurtz 33

Historical Praxis as the Ground of Morality 36

Mihailo Marković

Comment by Kurtz 51

Reply by Marković 54

Morality and the Human Situation 58

Kai Nielsen

Comment by Fletcher 70

Reply by Nielsen 71

Comment by Simpson 73

PANEL II:

Freedom, Obligation, and Responsibility 75

Kurt Baier

Comment by Schneider 93

Comment by Kolenda 94

Comment by Bahm 95

Morality as an Art 98

Herbert W. Schneider

Comment by Kolenda 101

Comment by Baier 102

Globalism vs. Consensual Pluralism 104

Konstantin Kolenda

Comment by Baier 117

Comment by Simpson 118

Comment by Kohl 119

Reply by Kolenda 120

Toward a Humanist Consensus on Ethics

of International Development 122

James R. Simpson

Comment by Kolenda 134

Reply by Simpson 135

PANEL III:

Toward an Ethic of Mutual Accommodation 137

Max Hocutt

Comment by Tarkunde 147

Reply by Hocutt 149

Comment by Hannay 151

Reply by Hocutt 153

Toward a Fuller Consensus in Humanistic Ethics 154

V. M. Tarkunde

Comment by Hannay 168

Reply by Tarkunde 169

Comment by Hocutt 171

On Suffering 173

Marvin Kohl

Comment by Kurtz 177

Reply by Kohl 178

Propositions Toward a Humanist Consensus in Ethics 179

Alastair Hannay

Comment by Hocutt 191

Reply by Hannay 192

PANEL IV:

An Ethical System for Now and the Future 193

Lester A. Kirkendall

Comment by Bahm 206

Reply by Kirkendall 207

Comment by Radest 208

Humanist Ethics and the Science of Oughtness 210

Archie J. Bahm

Comment by Kirkendall 221

Reply by Bahm 222

Comment by Radest 223

Reply by Bahm 224

Comment by Storer 225

Relativism and Responsibility 226

Howard B. Radest

Comment by Bahm 241

Kulturkampf 246

Lee Nisbet

Comment by Kirkendall 247

Reply by Nisbet 248

Comment by Anton 250

Reply by Nisbet 252

PANEL V:

Humanistic Ethics: The Groundwork 253

Joseph Fletcher

Comment by Storer 260

How Humanistic are Humanists? 262

Marvin Zimmerman

Comment by Nisbet 268

Comment by Storer 269

Reply by Zimmerman 271

A Note Toward a Theory of Political Humanism 272

John P. Anton

A Factual Investigation of the Foundations of Morality 281

Morris B. Storer

Comment by Bahm 293

Reply by Storer 295

Comment by Fletcher 296

Reply by Storer 299

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 301

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