Treatise of Humanism

Today the human species is collectively confronting a complex existential crisis comprised of a number of diverse elements: political economic religious technological and environmental. The globalization of information and commerce has revealed to us the universality and interrelatedness of all of these factors. A Treatise of Humanism is an attempt to address the human crisis through an examination of ourselves: our past our possibilities for a future our common rational capacity (which should give us hope) and our common human nature. As a philosophy of humanism this book shares many ideas with existentialism and it may in fact be viewed as a work of American existentialism focused on our common human condition and on what we may need to do to continue to survive and to thrive together not only as a species of life unified through reason but as an interrelated collectivity of unique human individuals.