Concord Area Humanists Dec 3, 2014

Concord Area Humanists invites you to a discussion and dialogue entitled “An Introduction to Positive Humanism: Philosophy and Psychology”. The special speaker will be Bo Bennett. This special meeting will be held on Wednesday, Dec 3, 2014 at 7 p.m. at First Parish Hall, 20 Lexington Rd, Concord MA.

Positive humanism is an applied humanistic philosophy based on the scientific findings of positive psychology that focuses on personal, professional, and societal flourishing.

Translation: As an applied philosophy it offers practical solutions to increase well-being. As a 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 other side of the mental health spectrum of problems — human thriving. The philosophy focuses on concrete strategies to help individuals in all areas of personal growth and professional success, primarily through positive being and pro-social acts and through distributed kindness.

Bo Bennett is a secular Humanist and a PhD candidate in social psychology. Bo has devoted his time to the studying several religions. He has completed many courses from the world’s leading universities on Christianity, Catholicism, Theology, Biblical Studies, Argumentation, Historical Jesus, Cosmology, Biology, Evolution, Quantum and Particle Physics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Apologetics.

Today, from a secular perspective, Bo is very active at promoting reason, rationality, and critical thinking to people of all religions and philosophies. He is the administrator of: DebateGod.org, a critical thinking page on Facebook, and his personal blog at www.relationshipwithreason.com. Bo is the author of “The Concept“, a book that examines religion and the nature of God, as well as the author of “Logically Fallacious“, the largest known published collection of logical fallacies.

More information can be found on www.ConcordAreaHumanists.org and from pne@aol.com For more information, contact David Kimball at 508-485-4795.