{"id":320,"date":"2012-03-11T05:26:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T05:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:39:03","slug":"2012-03-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-03-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Live the Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Arthur M. Jackson<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Mar. 11, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249\" title=\"2012-03-04-(6)Speaker\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-03-04-6Speaker.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur M. Jackson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arthur M. Jackson, longtime Humanist Community member and leader, will for the first time provide a PowerPoint <a title=\"Arthur M. Jackson's Good Life Presentation Slides\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/arthur-jackson-31112\/\">presentation<\/a> about his book <em>How to Live the Good Life:\u00a0 A User\u2019s Guide for Modern Humans.<\/em>\u00a0 This book is the result of over fifty years of struggle to find a naturalistic model for ethics and morality able to provide existential and emotional support to the individual. He was looking for a fundamental understanding of life and the world in which we find ourselves, based on the science paradigm rather than tradition, authority, or cultural relativism. He proposes that this has led him to a science of religion and ethics capable of supporting a religion of wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49401227\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/49401227\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-03-11): Arthur M. Jackson&rsquo;s Book &quot;How to Live the Good Life&quot;<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur M. Jackson Mar. 11, 2012 Arthur M. Jackson, longtime Humanist Community member and leader, will for the first time provide a PowerPoint presentation about his book How to Live the Good Life:\u00a0 A User\u2019s Guide for Modern Humans.\u00a0 This book is the result of over fifty years of struggle to find a naturalistic model &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-03-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Live the Good Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/320"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}