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Tag Archives: philosophy
Belief
By Fran Evanisko
(in collaboration with his local Brights Community Cluster)
To my dad, the old days were either better or worse than the present, depending on the point he was trying to make. If he wanted me to appreciate all of the good things I had, he would emphasize how bad things were during the depression. If he wanted me to feel bad about … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged acceptance, Aristotle, belief, believe, disagreements, Earth, evidence, faith, Galileo, objective, philosophy, proposition, Pythagoras, religion, science, truth, worldviews
2 Comments
Whose Afterlife Matters?
Try this thought experiment:
Suppose you knew that, although you yourself would live a normal life span, the earth would be completely destroyed thirty days after your death in a collision with a giant asteroid. How would this knowledge affect your attitudes during the remainder of your life?
That’s what the author of a new book suggests we do. Death and the Afterlife (Oxford) by … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged afterlife, apocalypse, atheism, book review, death, Death and the Afterlife, Kylie's Heel, philosophy, Samuel Scheffler
1 Comment
Teaching the Good in Godless
“Not possessing a religious basis for morality, atheists are fundamentally incapable of having a coherent system of morality.”
–Conservapedia, Atheism & Morality
“The biggest damage religion does is indoctrinating and brainwashing children.”
–Richard Dawkins, in a The Times of India interview with Vineet Gill, 25 Jan 2012
As a precociously atheist child, I was often asked by friends why I didn’t just rob banks if … Read more
Posted in Umwelt Utahpia
Tagged canon, children, development, education, ethics, instruction, morality, parenting, philosophy, secular humanist, taught
24 Comments
10 Bright Ways to Think about Death
It may seem paradoxical, but what more rational way for a Bright to say good-bye to the old year and welcome a new one than to consider the end of everything?
That’s why I’ve compiled some approaches toward death held by various clear thinkers. Philosophers, psychologists, scientists, poets, and novelists have expressed a wide array of attitudes about dying. I find each of the ones … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged death, denial, fear, mortality, new year, novelists, philosophy
66 Comments
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