Crested partridge: [NTF-talk] questions of thinking, what is to be human, human rights' ethics, and philosophy? * Quaker-wise too? Friends' philosophy, for example, at Haverford and Swarthmore, doesn't seem to ripple into mainstream legal questions too mu

[NTF-talk] questions of thinking, what is to be human, human rights' ethics, and philosophy?

 

Dear Nontheist Friends, NtFs, Nontheist Quakers, f/Friends, 
Friendly greetings ... some questions of thinking, what is to be human, of human rights' ethics, and philosophy? Quaker-wise too? Friends' philosophy, for example, at Haverford and Swarthmore, doesn't seem to ripple into mainstream legal questions too much, that I've noticed, for example. Some of this thinking might:

Looked up Harvard philosophy faculty this morning, and found these interesting conversations - for one, 2019 Harvard Anscombe conference - and others about ethics, which touches abstractly on eudaimonia at around 35 minutes - and theism and non-theism issues throughout ... Doyle is originally from England, I think, and attended Cambridge, so there's a touch of British culture in his thinking - 
2019 Harvard Anscombe Symposium - Prof James Doyle
https://youtu.be/DSw-7hQRyNU

(Regarding eudaimonia, see too - 

Eudaimonia (personal flourishing)
is 'Flow' and Bliss

Dear Friends,

While bliss may be experienced by evoking or exploring good spiritedness, I'm curious about the following.

 

How to experience eudaimonia, flow, and bliss naturally?

FLOW

What is 'flow' ~ the psychology of optimal experience?

http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm - with a more explicit focus on Friends esp.).



2019 Harvard Anscombe Symposium - Prof Candace Vogler
https://youtu.be/36SBDLWLJlI
(Candace knows much about theology's role in some of these questions).


And here's another Harvard professor, touching on what it is to be a human being so ethics too - as well as the role of the secular age as well as the role of technology regarding what we might aspire to... interestingly 
Sean D. Kelly - On Being a Human Being
https://youtu.be/lnmuVb26ULQ

I teach about the information age, per the above talk, perhaps informed not by the middle ages, or this secular age, but rather by information technological developments, comparable to the first and second industrial revolutions  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html.

Am returning to Oxford Philosophy Theology atheist graduate student Alex O'Connor aka CosmicSkeptic in some of these regards too (please see below, again) - and even especially regarding questions of human rights and ethics.
It's interesting to me how philosophy is much about the conversation, whereas Friends find connectedness in Meeting, but perhaps recently for Quakers regarding Non-theist Friends in an unfolding email conversation in part. 
Am curious about the role that talk therapy may have played, or could play too, in some of the above philosophers: 

In what ways can
@WorldUnivAndSch
 medical schools best make free #TalkTherapy with MD psychiatrists (#WUaSPsychiatry), as well as eventual #WUaSAvatarBots (for privacy even) & for #WUaSmatriculatedStudents first - in all ~200 countries' universities re local law & main languages?

In what ways can @WorldUnivAndSch medical schools best make free #TalkTherapy with MD psychiatrists (#WUaSPsychiatry), as well as eventual #WUaSAvatarBots (for privacy even) & for #WUaSmatriculatedStudents first - in all ~200 countries' universities re local law & main languages? https://t.co/b8fFPK25LC

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) December 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1334993407102472192?s=20 
NtFriendly cheers, Scotthttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nontheist%20Friend



PPS
Perhaps some related questions will emerge at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School ... 
In including Friend David Ross, Bryn Mawr economics' professor emeritus, in an email recently about World Univ & Sch partnering with edX, am hoping Friends interested in online free PhD or 4 year Bachelor degrees will be able to register matriculate this September 1, 2021 in something like this - https://authn.edx.org/register (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html).

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Language

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Science

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ethics

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Law



Cosmic Sceptic Atheist Alex at Oxford: DISGUSTING Things From My Theology Degree

1010/2019
Non-theist Friends, NtFs  - 
Brilliant stuff (as they might say in Edinburgh, where I studied as a high school student at Fettes College, and attended chapel every morning, and 'Collection" or prayers every evening as well:): 
Here's Cosmic Sceptic Atheist Alex at Oxford: "DISGUSTING Things From My Theology Degree"EEE - https://youtu.be/VvcOfUrHS5U ... seems very relevant to Quakers / Friends and now NtF/ Nontheist Friends' emergence historically too somehow ... 
(Am a religion major from Reed College, and I find myself listening to the Grateful Dead - https://archive.org/details/gd1971-04-28.126262.sbd.boswell.smith.flac16/gd1971-04-28s1t04.flac -  as I listen to Alex, concurrently, a kind of remix :) 
May also head over from Religion to Philosophy or even NtF Philosophy. Am finding Eric Dodson's thinking fascinating in these regards; see his "Wisdom and Education" -
'Wisdom & Education' by Eric L Dodsonhttps://youtu.be/hBa7rGQXupU
Wallace Watson (Duquesne Professor Emeritus) or Rosemary Coffey - do you happen to know Eric Dodson by any chance? (Was he by any chance involved with Pittsburgh Friends' Meeting)? He lived in Pittsburgh PA and was a Duquesne University graduate student from about 1987-1996 (Have blogged a bit about Eric Dodson's philosophy and psychology here too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html ) ... Very brilliant stuff too :) 
May head up to Harbin Hot Springs / Heart Consciousness Church virtually too here - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1181347534662328323 ... and re all of the above! :)
Friendly cheers, Scott@scottmacleod - check out the Twitter feed re DIY Genetics Engineering ... 

In what ways can @WorldUnivAndSch medical schools best make free #TalkTherapy with MD psychiatrists (#WUaSPsychiatry), as well as eventual #WUaSAvatarBots (for privacy even) & for #WUaSmatriculatedStudents first - in all ~200 countries' universities re local law & main languages? https://t.co/b8fFPK25LC

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) December 4, 2020

... https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182416543436558337 ...  DIY Gene Editing from Home? How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools 

Tickled to see @4LOVofScience at @cooperhewitt’s Triennial. Who would’ve thought #CRISPR kits (ahem, lab tools) would make it to a *design museum*?

Lab aesthetics 🧬⚗️💯#biodesign #diybio pic.twitter.com/h4yUYx3BpU

— Ramy Kim (@ramymik) October 8, 2019

https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344 >#RealisticVirtualHarbin >#GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working from HOME labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital?

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)


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 6/15/2020
Hi Nontheist Friends: 
Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex, the non-theist Oxford theology graduate student: 
DEBATE: Would God Allow Evil? @CosmicSkeptic vs @InspiringPhilosophyhttps://youtu.be/hNF9bTESZwE> https://twitter.com/CosmicSkeptic/status/1271850270205587459?s=20

I wrote one of my Reed College qualifying exams in Religion (with both social science focus, as well as feminist theology focus) on the so-called 'problem of evil' (an old debate from Augustine, Aquinas and more recently John Hicks' ) ... but not from an atheist or non-theist (let alone NtF Friendly/Quaker) perspective. 
Quakers have addressed the so-called 'problem of evil' eg https://jollyquaker.com/2017/05/26/finding-a-good-way-to-talk-about-evil/ and https://books.google.com/books?id=v20GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=theodicy+quaker&source=bl&ots=wrKIOsfm7P&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizruCrvITqAhUVJDQIHdmwC90Q6AEwCXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=theodicy%20quaker&f=false ; NtF's not yet.
But Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex offers new ways (for me) for addressing such questions, and potentially in a non-theistically Friendly way ... Alex's opening begins at 22 minutes. 
I find that my more current research interests focus on the ethnography of actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs, where Harbin is also 2 churches (HCC, and NACOB) interestingly (but where actual Harbin is now closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and before closed due to the Valley Fire of September 2015 in Lake county CA). My research focuses partly on the ethnography of meditation in warm pools - with parallels to sitting in Quaker Silent Meeting - and even with developing brain research (where philosophical theodicy questions for me are something of the past (1983)). 
Appreciating this Oxford debate philosophical thinking and structure too, (where Quakers have only engaged modestly in debates eg https://www.jstor.org/stable/2710672?seq=1 and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/07/debate-on-god-language-doesnt-mean-all-quakers-are-losing-faith ) ... and NtFs haven't yet engaged in questions of debate that I know of (and anthropology / ethnography is a very different form of inquiry, than this kind of philosophy :).
Appreciating, too, the freedom in non-theistically Friendliness! :)
NtF cheers, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity
Here are some beginnings of where my further virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic research may head: 
Hot Springs' inns' videos takes #onsen lovers wearing VR headsets for #VirtualSoaking @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking ~https://youtu.be/AFrTTMbQx1o ~https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI ~https://youtu.be/WKEhLAOJsys ~https://youtu.be/x30Zf_pbSO4 ~https://youtu.be/Bk0wI07M4a0~

Hot Springs' inns' videos takes #onsen lovers wearing VR headsets for #VirtualSoaking @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking ~https://t.co/aRZKjXehmC ~https://t.co/EG5TqrCZFj ~https://t.co/CVKJUS5Z4E ~https://t.co/KohbyPu7Dm ~https://t.co/4bquE4qWSj~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) June 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1272593936180080641?s=20https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1272594727712374784?s=20


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