{"id":10856,"date":"2018-07-22T06:54:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=10856"},"modified":"2018-10-20T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T00:52:13","slug":"2018-08-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-08-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Manuel Manga<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>August 19, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This talk will be based on reflections on the book &#8220;Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress&#8221; by Steven Pinker. Mr. Manga will expand on the key claims made by Pinker, but also on some of his limitations and assumptions about progress, sustainability, capitalism, and the role of evolutionary agents\/leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Manga is co-founder of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evoleadinstitute.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.evoleadinstitute.com<\/a>) based in Oakland, California, whose purpose is to contribute toward a just, sustainable, and flourishing world. He is a consultant, and executive coach, and has worked in the United States, Africa, Asia, Canada, Latin America, Europe and India.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/295486095\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/295486095\">Evolutionary Progress &#8211; Manuel Manga<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/253024007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel Manga August 19, 2018 This talk will be based on reflections on the book &#8220;Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress&#8221; by Steven Pinker. Mr. Manga will expand on the key claims made by Pinker, but also on some of his limitations and assumptions about progress, sustainability, capitalism, and the role &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-08-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evolutionary Progress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10856"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}