Progressive Secular Society by Tom Rubens

Progressive Secular Society by Tom Rubens

A progressive secular society is one committed to the widening of scientific knowledge and humane feeling. It regards humanity as part of physical nature and opposes any appeal to supernatural agencies or explanations. In particular, human moral perspectives are human creations and the only basis for ethics. Secular values need re-affirming in the face of the resurgence of aggressive supernatural religious doctrines and practices. This book gives a set of 'secular thoughts for the day' - many only a page or two long - on topics as varied as Shakespeare and Comte, economics, science and social action.

Rubens, Tom: - Tom Rubens has had a great many interesting years with The Conway Hall Ethical Society; he has been a member of the committee, The Editor of the monthly Journal and given many talks at the society's Sunday Morning Lectures. His current long term project for them is a researching and indexing the Humanist Archive since 1870. Tom has 11 books published - 5 of which were published by the Bristol firm Imprint Academic Book. One in particular includes detailed research for 2 essays about the Wessex born Thomas Hardy who turn atheist in his later life. During his experimental years 30s, my teaching vocation took me further afield to Nigeria, and to the very edge of the Sahara Desert. There, the huge variety of languages and cultures deepened my thirst for knowledge about the human race as a whole: including knowledge of religious and tribal ways of life. All this was very different from anything I'd experienced in Europe. While I was travelling I developed an interest in humanists and philosophy. Over many years, I have met and listened to some extraordinary and inspirational speakers on the subject. These meetings have been at lectures and events mainly held at London's Conway Hall and Royal Institute of Philosophy; and, amongst the many speakers have been Anthony Clifford Grayling CBE and Richard Dawkins Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science. My growing interest within the philosophical sphere has chiefly been voiced in books. The first of these was published in 1984, and has since been followed by seven more publications, as well as journal articles. These broadly reflect the outlook of people such as Grayling and Dawkins: an outlook, which is based on ideas about the nature of reality. My latest endeavours have been to write a trilogy of novels, based in the 1960s and 70s, about young people's experience of growing up, and their perspective in evaluating their newfound knowledge and how they interpret it. The aim of my work is to enable the reader to compare the differences between the time periods and understand better why young people make judgments and opinions today.

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ISBN 13	9781845401320
ISBN 10	1845401328
Title	Progressive Secular Society
Author	Tom Rubens
Series	Societas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Imprint Academic
Year published	2008-06-01
Number of pages	128
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