{"id":8710,"date":"2016-12-18T06:42:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T06:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2017-01-22T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T07:11:05","slug":"2017-01-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-01-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Science of Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Arthur Jackson<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>January 8, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Longtime Humanist Community member and leader Arthur Jackson (who authored the book &#8220;How to Live the Good Life: A User&#8217;s Guide for Modern Humans&#8221;) writes that Ernst Mayr tells us \u201cDarwin provided a scientific foundation for ethics.\u201d  Unfortunately Mayr\u2019s insight has not been taken seriously either in the scientific community or the academic community in general.  Jackson attempts to clarify today what a scientific ethic would mean.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/200411543\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/200411543\">Humanist Community Forum (2017-01-08): Science of Ethics (Arthur Jackson)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RSVP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/236312356\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/236312356\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Join our Meetup group:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Like us on Facebook:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Follow us on Twitter:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>(Note: People interested in the Family Program should contact Harrianne Mills at 650-257-0478.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Jackson January 8, 2017 Longtime Humanist Community member and leader Arthur Jackson (who authored the book &#8220;How to Live the Good Life: A User&#8217;s Guide for Modern Humans&#8221;) writes that Ernst Mayr tells us \u201cDarwin provided a scientific foundation for ethics.\u201d Unfortunately Mayr\u2019s insight has not been taken seriously either in the scientific community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-01-08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science of Ethics&#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\/8710"}],"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=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}