Please note that this month’s meeting is the third Saturday of the month and starts an hour later than normal.

A video featuring Paul Kurtz

Lake Nokomis Community Center
2401 E. Minnehaha Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55417

The topic of this month's meeting is "Defending Secular Humanism," featuring a video recording of an address that Paul Kurtz gave to students at the University of Minnesota. He expounds on four key points of Secular Humanism:

1. Free inquiry methodology,
2. Science as the best attempt of getting at reality,
3. Secular Humanism as an ethical doctrine open to change in response to human needs, and
4. Secular Humanism as a social policy that promotes world cohesiveness.

The half-hour video will be followed by small-group discussions (divided up into approximately equal numbers of participants). After the small-group discussions, the larger group will review the various group findings.

Paul Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, but is best known as founder and chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, the Council for Secular Humanism, the Center for Inquiry and Prometheus Books. He was co-president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Humanist Laureate and president of the International Academy of Humanism. He was the principal editor of the Humanist Manifesto II.