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
Hello Leigh, I am much bothered by this horrible habit of settling conflicts of interest between nations by killing each other. The root of this seems to be an attitude of separateness.
What you say here,
"...philosophy, or life stance, embraces human reason, ethics, social justice and philosophical naturalism..."
seems to imply that anyone in the world is firstly a member of the one human family; only trivially are we a nationality (by accident of birth) and then we may choose a philosophy of life or a religion as a guide through life.
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
Hello Leigh, I am much bothered by this horrible habit of settling conflicts of interest between nations by killing each other. The root of this seems to be an attitude of separateness.
What you say here,
"...philosophy, or life stance, embraces human reason, ethics, social justice and philosophical naturalism..."
seems to imply that anyone in the world is firstly a member of the one human family; only trivially are we a nationality (by accident of birth) and then we may choose a philosophy of life or a religion as a guide through life.