Forum: Naturalistic Transcendentalism (Dr. Peter Bishop)

Dr. Peter Bishop was a very important and very generous member of the Humanist Community in the 1980's and up until a few years ago, when he and his family moved to the East Coast. Here is a summary of his talk that Dr. Bishop provided:

Natural Transcendentalism is a philosophy that ties together everything that I have been discovering from a philosophical point of view, and published in my first peer-reviewed journal article of the same name in the Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism.

I am continuing to make headway on this work, but I will present the fundamental point of view: starting from the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was interested in the human capacity for intuition and other religious experiences, such as revelations, but looking at this from the 21st century and a 21st century naturalism. There are three major areas of philosophy that are ripe for advance with such a point of view, and I lay out the three areas in my talk.

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Bishop is an MIT graduate who worked as a software writer in Silicon Valley. His parents encouraged the idea of free thought during his childhood.

After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.

"People are the force for good in the world and so I believe in people that their goodness will create the goodness that we have in the world". ~ Peter Bishop

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