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H.J. Blackham

Born

in Birmingham, England, The United Kingdom

March 31, 1903

Died

January 23, 2009

Genre

Philosophy, Humanism, Nonfiction

Influences

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Harold John Blackham (31 March 1903 – 23 January 2009) was a leading British humanist philosopher, writer and educationalist. He has been described as the "progenitor of modern humanism in Britain".

Blackham has been Chairman, Social Morality Council, Great Britain, and a former director of the British Humanist Association.

In 1977, he was elected an honorary associate of the Rationalist Press Association. He is on the editorial board of The Humanist. In 1980, he signed the Secular Humanist Declaration.

He has written that “Unitarianism in England is negligible intellectually. Of course, the Hibbert survives and holds a place, but that is because it is open to all comers in its fairly broad field. The Unitarians here are hostile to humanism. T ...more

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Average rating: 3.24 · 154 ratings · 15 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Six Existentialist Thinkers 3.13 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1952 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reality Man and Existence Essential Works of Existentialism Kierkegaard Sartre 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1965	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Objections to Humanism: 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humanism 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1968 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fable As Literature liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Future of Our Past it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humanists & Quakers: An exchange of letters really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moral education; did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1971	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moral and religious education in county primary schools: Report of a working party to the Social Morality Council by H.J. Blackham, Social Morality Council 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Education for personal autonomy: An inquiry into the school's resources for furthering the personal development of pupils by H.J. Blackham (Contributor), Standing Conference for the Advancement 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“[Kierkegaard] is a prophet denouncing a generation which had sold its birthright of inquisitive ignorance for a mass of information.”
― H.J. Blackham, Six Existentialist Thinkers

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