Friday, July 4, 2008

Naturalism Links

My own humanistic philosophy has always been rooted in science and reason with a distaste for any kind of dogma, religious or political. I have recently re-centered myself in this regard after realizing how far astray from this foundation many "Humanists" are. Humanists groups have a tendency to stray towards political dogma and emotionality and away from science and critical thinking. In thinking again about my own philosophy, "naturalism" has more appeal than Humanism with the political stigma it is earning itself. Check out www.naturalism.org . There is a great link on this site ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1022039654662139670&hl=en ) to a presentation done by a Tom Clark where he suggests it may be "the next step for Humanists". I found this a bit ironic, in that for me as a humanist I considered it the first step.

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