Ethical movement

The Ethical movement (also the Ethical Culture movement, Ethical Humanism, and Ethical Culture), is an ethical, educational, and religious movement established in 1877, by the academic Felix Adler (1851–1933). In effort to develop humanist codes of behavior, the Ethical movement emerged from the moral traditions of the secular societies of Europe and the secular society of the United States of the 19th century. In practice, the Ethical movement organized themselves as two types of organization: (i) a secular humanist movement and (ii) a moral movement, with a religious approach. In the U.S., ethical movements became organizations for the advancement of education (e.g. the American Humanist Association and the American Ethical Union), whereas the U.K., the ethical movements became the South Place Ethical Society and the British Ethical Union, organizations which consciously transcended the congregational model of organization, as the Conway Hall Ethical Society, the Humanists UK, and the Sunday Assembly. Internationally, Ethical Culture and secular humanist organizations organized jointly; the American Ethical Union and the British Ethical Union were the founders of Humanists International, whose original name, the "International Humanist and Ethical Union", reflected the philosophical unity of the Ethical Culture movement. The premise of Ethical Culture is that honoring and living in accordance with a code of ethics is required to live a meaningful life, and for making the world a better place for all people. The Ethical movement was an outgrowth of the general loss of faith among the intellectuals of the Victorian era. A precursor to the doctrines of the Ethical movement can be found in the South Place Ethical Society, founded in 1793 as the South Place Chapel on Finsbury Square, on the edge of the City of London. In the early nineteenth century, the chapel became known as "a radical gathering-place". At that point it was a Unitarian chapel, and that movement, like Quakers, supported female equality.

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Humanisme

vignette|La citation du philosophe grec Protagoras, « L'homme est la mesure de toute chose », et l'Homme de Vitruve, dessin de Léonard de Vinci (fin ), sont les symboles les plus connus de la pensée humaniste. Le terme humanisme, créé à la fin du et popularisé au début du , a pendant longtemps désigné exclusivement un mouvement culturel, philosophique et artistique prenant naissance au dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, puis se développant dans le reste de l’Europe.

Religious humanism

Religious humanism or ethical humanism is an integration of nontheistic humanist ethical philosophy with congregational rites and community activity which center on human needs, interests, and abilities. Self-described religious humanists differ from secular humanists mainly in that they regard the nontheistic humanist life stance as a non-supernatural "religion" and organising using a congregational model. Religious humanists typically organise in the 21st century under the umbrella of Ethical Culture or Ethical Humanism.

Église positiviste

vignette|Temple positiviste à Porto Alegre, Brésil. Le positivisme religieux est un mouvement fondé par Auguste Comte dans la phase dite religieuse de sa pensée, qu'il développe dans la deuxième partie de sa vie (1846-1857), et qui l'amène à fonder l'Église positiviste. Auguste Comte souhaite ainsi contribuer à régénérer la société par l'institution d'un nouveau. Cette phase débouche sur des réflexions sur l'organisation de la société et de l'État.