As Britain's former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has eloquently written, the story of humanity, starting with Adam and Eve, "has been for the most part a flight from responsibility.
At Lund University in Sweden, the medical humanities became an explicit part of the medical curriculum in 2000 with the start of the Humanities and Medicine program (HumMed).
In the 19th century, the Frenchman Auguste Comte, for example, tried futilely to start a religion of humanity, modeled on the organization of the Catholic Church, with priests, weekly services and feast days, but without God.
This is the start of a study of humanity that will find out if we can cope with the rigours of travel between the planets".
And if one-sixth of humanity starts going through an unstable and uncertain political/economic transition, it will shake the world.
Their thesis is that, far from arriving at the idea of human evolution from his studies of natural history, Darwin took as one of his starting points the diversification of humanity into "races".There are many interesting twists here.
This dance craze seems like a million years ago already, but it was only in February that videos of people performing the silliest moves in the history of humanity started being rapidly uploaded on to the internet.
Can we all now do something so that half of humanity starts feeling safe amongst us?" — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal7) 29 Dec 12 Many, like the Hindustan Times newspaper editor Abhijit Majumder, implied there was something rotten in the Indian government that would allow such a rape to happen: "We are guilty of the gangrape of India.
Why would we start to question basic notions of humanity, such as the need to give asylum to people fleeing persecution, or the need for respect and warmth towards EU migrants, when people from our own country work abroad so much of the time.
As Whitesides will later tell me, "This is the start of something really big – humanity going into the cosmos.
There are better ways of helping the great mass of humanity to a start in life than levelling down from the top..
