The Humanist Outlook Author:A J Ayer What does it mean to call oneself a Humanist today? A. J. Ayer invited twenty distinguished men and women, all members of the Advisory Council of the British Humanist Association, to write on any subject of their choice and so illustrate what Humanism implies in practice. As professor Ayer explains, "it is not so much a matter of their adherin... more »g to a given set of doctrines as of their having similar moral interests and a common intellectual approach."« less