Positive Humanism: A Primer
Published on 5. November 2014
50 pages
978-1-4566-2355-5 (ISBN)
Description
Positive humanism is an applied secular humanistic philosophy based on the scientific findings of positive psychology that focuses on personal, professional, and societal flourishing. As an applied philosophy its focus is on ideas that lead to increased well-being. As a secular humanistic philosophy, there are no appeals to the supernatural, the magical, or the mystical. The philosophy is founded on reason and critical thinking. The philosophy is science-based, meaning it is void of the unsupported and/or exaggerated claims and the constant confusing of correlation with causality often found in the self-help genre. The philosophy is grounded in the theories of positive psychology, which is the study of the positive side of the mental health spectrum-human flourishing.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Preface: POSITIVE HUMANISM: A PRIMER
- Positive Humanism 2.0: Living the Good, Secular Life
- Why Positive Psychology?
- Why Positive Humanism?
- The Morality of Positive Humanism
- So Man Created God in His Own Image
- Objectivity, Relativity, or Both?
- The Collective Well-Being of Humanity: The Humanistic Moral Foundation
- No Moral Anarchy Nor Utility
- Changing Morality: A Tough Pill To Swallow
- A Complex Topic Too Often Made Simplistic
- Religion: A Middleman to Well-Being
- A Means to an End
- "Proof" That Religion is Just a Middleman
- Making Sense of Reason
- The Origin of Reason
- The Foundation of Reason
- The Development of Reason in Our Species
- The Secular Justification for Reason
- Exploring the "F" Word: Freewill
- What is "Freewill?"
- The Real Problem of Freewill
- The Freewill Controversy
- What Does Matter
- Freewill and the Positive Humanist
- "Balance" Does Not Have To Mean Being Irrational
- Kicking Old Ladies
- Arationality: Neither Rational Nor Irrational
- Love and "Soulmates"
- A Feeling Is Not the Same as an Explanation of the Feeling
- Keep the Good, Lose the Bad
- On Dying and Living
- How Did You Feel About Not Being Born Yet?
- Why Do We Fear Death?
- Facing Reality (a Humanist Perspective)
- Taking Action
- About Me (the Author)
- My Drug of Choice: Tony Robbins
- Jackpot!
- The Frustration Begins
- Becoming an Angry Atheist, Then a Positive Humanist
- It's a Wonderful Life
- References
