I'm glad you chose to speak intentionally.... with effortless action (wu-wei) and as always, I enjoyed your thoughts. I believe in many philosophies. Perhaps I might relate best with Humanism. This philosophy, or life stance, embraces human reason, ethics, social justice and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience and superstition as the bases of morality and decision making.
Hi Leigh, so glad you enjoyed it! I liked your way of describing humanism. I'm curious about how pseudo-science can reliably be distinguished from science! I know Karl Popper and George Steiner take this view (to discredit Marx, Freud, Levi-Strauss) but I think Kuhn and others make a convincing case that the history of astronomy and alchemy are inextricably linked to the development of what we now regard as science. Best, Bryan
Hi Bryan,
I'm glad you chose to speak intentionally.... with effortless action (wu-wei) and as always, I enjoyed your thoughts. I believe in many philosophies. Perhaps I might relate best with Humanism. This philosophy, or life stance, embraces human reason, ethics, social justice and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience and superstition as the bases of morality and decision making.
Sat Nam (Truth is my essence) Leigh
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Hi Leigh, so glad you enjoyed it! I liked your way of describing humanism. I'm curious about how pseudo-science can reliably be distinguished from science! I know Karl Popper and George Steiner take this view (to discredit Marx, Freud, Levi-Strauss) but I think Kuhn and others make a convincing case that the history of astronomy and alchemy are inextricably linked to the development of what we now regard as science. Best, Bryan