The Good Place

Here are a couple of links to interesting articles on The Good Place and its use of philosophy for an upcoming class.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/02/the-good-place-season-2-wrestled-with-morality-by-smashing-the-status-quo/

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/how-the-good-place-goes-beyond-the-trolley-problem/543393/

Meeting -- September 28

For our next meeting, for Fall 2018, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, September 28. 

Our topic this week may be selected from the following:

 -- War
 -- Fact (Factfulness)
 -- Gender in Language
 -- Communication and Communication Theory
 -- The Good Place (Moral Relativism)
 -- Socialism / Capitalism
 -- Labels
 -- Where is evolution taking us?

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the list, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com. 

See this web page at

https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/

Future Topics

 -- War
 -- Fact (Factfulness)
 -- Gender in Language
 -- Communication and Communication Theory
 -- The Good Place (Moral Relativism)
 -- Socialism / Capitalism
 -- Labels
 -- Where is evolution taking us?
 -- Memory

Human Attributes

http://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-6432/The-6-Qualities-That-Make-Us-Fully-Human.html

https://philosophynow.org/issues/124/Bergson_Rights_Instincts_Visions_and_War

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/philosophy-dispatches/201205/what-does-it-mean-be-human

What Does It Mean to Be Human

http://humanorigins.si.edu/about/become-involved/submit-your-response-what-does-it-mean-be-human

Meeting -- September 21

For our next meeting, for Fall 2018, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, September 21. 

Our topic this week was selected by the members at the past meeting:

-- what it means to be human.

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the list, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com. 

See this web page at

https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/

Nihilism Tee Shirt

Meeting, September 14

For our next meeting, for Fall 2018, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, September 14. 

Our first topic this semester can be selected from this list we proposed last week or from other suggestions the members may make:

-- Culture's Use of Symbols

 -- Communication and Communication Theory
 -- The Good Place (Moral Relativism)
 -- Socialism / Capitalism
 -- Labels
 -- What does it mean to be human?
 -- Where is evolution taking us?

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the list, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com. 

Prospective Topics

 -- Culture's Use of Symbols
 -- Communication and Communication Theory
 -- The Good Place (Moral Relativism)
 -- Socialism / Capitalism
 -- Labels
 -- What does it mean to be human?
 -- Where is evolution taking us?

A Real Me

https://www.arealme.com/

Big Think

https://bigthink.com/world-in-mind/can-we-quit-it-with-the-right-brain-left-brain-stuff-already