Do Humanists have a “text?”
(This question was asked of me by a couple of seminary students doing a report on Humanism and by someone over at Quora). Here are my combined responses.

There are no "key" texts or authors. Humanism arises in every culture and in every time.
A great site to get started on the international and historical nature of Humanist thought is Humanistic Texts
The reason this site is called Humanistic texts is that the term Humanism wasn’t coined to describe this philosophy that’s always been around until the early 1900s. So, we can look back at different philosophies and say – they were Humanistic, but because the term was not applied to those philosophies at the time (because the term didn’t exist), it would be intellectually dishonest to say they were Humanist in the modern sense, even if it is clear, they were pretty darned humanistic.
That gives you the historical texts; now let’s look to the modern texts.
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