These Concord Area Humanist (CAH) meetings occur on the First Monday of each month, at the Wright Tavern , Concord, 20 Lexington Rd, MA.
Wright Tavern is the historic red wooden building between First Parish Meeting House and the Town Flagpole.
At each of these meetings we have a featured speaker, followed by discussion.
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Social 7:00pm. Program 7:30 - 9:00pm.
Come to the historic building that Paul Revere failed to reach on an earlier historic occasion!
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Feb 7. “Atheism and Economic Man”, presented by Mark Lindley and Jim Farmelant. The great atheist philosopher Thomas Hobbes said that the natural social condition of humans is a "war of all against all" but that ensuing difficulties (i.e. lives which are "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short') have occasioned a social contract whereby massive government reins in human nature.
Do we have to support this view? And, must scientific economic theory rely on such a view of human nature or could it incorporate instead the idea that there is something other than greed in our motivations?" Mark has been Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, is a noted musicologist and, more recently, a historian of modern India. He has taught at various universities, in diverse countries.
Read about Mark, and the books he has authored, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lindley . Mark and Jim co-authored "Six Prominent American Freethinkers", 12/16/08, in MRzine. See http://www.mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/fl161208.html. Jim authored "The New Atheism (and New Humanism)" in Religious Humanism, Fall 2008. Googling on his name will also yield other citations.
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These meetings are generously hosted by the Wright Tavern Center of the First Parish in Concord.
