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Corliss Lamont

Lamont helped define secular humanism for twentieth-century American audiences.

BORN 1902 CE · Englewood, New JerseyDIED 1995 CE · Ossining, New YorkERA Twentieth-century secular humanism

NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION

Popularized secular humanism as a naturalistic philosophy of ethics, democracy, and human welfare.

THE RECORD

His writing emphasized reason, human flourishing, democracy, and this-worldly ethics.
He defended civil liberties and freedom of thought in public life.
His work became a common reference in organized humanist circles.