ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part argues that humanism has the ability to transcend this and feels it is important. It offers concept of what a new global ethics should include. Situations, however, change, and societies need to face new crises which go beyond the traditional solutions of the past and on which men and women need to create a new kind of ethics. Humanists are usually on the cutting edge of trying to find ethical answers for the new ambiguities and new problems which confront them. Humanism is something more than atheism, it is essentially an ethical system. The source of many of the attacks on humanism by religious adherents of all stripes and persuasions is over the question of ethics.
