Reading Group: Being Good - Session 5: Radical Evil/Conclusion

In this series of sessions, we will be discussing Richard Norman’s short book, Being Good, exploring humanist values and what it means to be good. You are encouraged to read the assigned chapters before the session. For this final session, we are reading Chapter 9: ‘Radical Evil’ and the Conclusion (pages 21 to 24). The session facilitator will provide a brief summary at the start of each session.

About the book:
Most people have some idea of how to be good. They may not always do it, but they know how to do it. They know how to be kind, how to be helpful, how to show compassion, how to be honest. But for a humanist there is more to being good than that, and the ‘more’ is what Richard Norman explores in this publication.

About the author:
Richard Norman is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Kent and a patron of Humanists UK. He is the author of Ethics, Killing and War (1994), On Humanism (2004), and was the editor of the collection of essays Religion and Atheism (2017).

Download a free PDF version of the book here >
https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Being-Good-pages.pdf

Cost:
This event is free. Your donation to help keep these events going is greatly appreciated. Please make your donation at https://www.humanistsaustralia.org/donate