Alex’s Heresies – embracing a physical reality

Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.

"The Australian Book of Atheism aims to change that, gathering together an impressive collection of essays from pre-eminent Australian atheist, rationalist, secular, humanist, and skeptic thinkers, many of whom participated in the 2010 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne." [from the publisher Scribe Publications] Also I'm one of the contributors with an article on Progressive Christianity. Alex McCullie

Centre for Adult Education: Melbourne Content

What is Reality? We shall examine two competing ways of understanding reality. Naturalism with its strictly physical world-view and traditional Christianity with a divine creator and organiser. Since the 18th Century Enlightenment, western society has moved away from traditional Christian understandings to a more naturalistic view of existence. We shall compare the two views.

What is Truth? Modernism (there are universally reasoned truth) and Post-modernism (we can have personal truths only) also compete with different explanations on the status of knowledge and truth. This conflict lead to the (in) famous science and history wars of the late 20th century.

5 sessions: Tuesdays 6.00PM-7.30PM: 17/05/11 to 14/06/11 Venue: CAE Building B - 253 Flinders Ln, Melbourne

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Centre for Adult Education: Melbourne

BEING GOOD: 3 VIEWS OF MORALITY We think about moral issues every day. Newspapers, television programs, and internet web-sites tell us what is immoral and moral.

Class details 5 sessions: Tuesdays 7.30PM-9.00PM: 22/02/11 to 22/03/11

Venue: CAE Building B - 253 Flinders Ln, Melbourne

Content We explore two traditional foundations of Western moral attitudes - traditional Religious beliefs and Philosophical thinking - with the more-recent and challenging research of Moral Psychology and ask the questions, does morality exist? Can there be universal moral rules? How do we know right from wrong? What is evil? How does culture influence morality?

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Talk proposed for July 2011 for Sofia in Melbourne, where I'll question that science is simply the business for finding objective truths.

Click to read Natural Philosophy The natural philosophy of life offers a simple, elegant, and powerful alternative to religious dogma. This philosophy has a firm foundation in nature, science, and reason. It is centered on the core values of honesty, generosity, equality, and freedom. (quoted from the site)

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