Values for Humanists
The subject of this article is the nature of values. One of the great challenges that is always presented to humanists is, how we can make sense of values? How do you give meaning to your life? How do you avoid some kind of relativism or subjectivism about values? Dostoevsky’s great character Ivan Karamazov asserts boldly, if God is dead, everything is permitted. And that’s a common attitude among non-humanists.