Humanist Community In Silicon Valley

Description

• Truth and Knowledge: We should base our conduct on the best available knowledge of the natural world, in which people and their minds have evolved and of our human-made systems.
• Rationality: The systems of the human mind based in the natural world, enable us to think, and be creative agents, and are the source of personal freedom, dignity and responsibility.
• Emotions: We have to recognize that emotions are the driving force of our behavior. We need to provide the loving relationships of a family for the security of young and old.
• Values: People are able to share emotions and refine their values through the various arts.
• Ethics: We should use or emotions, values and rationality in building ethical theories and systems to live by.
• Pragmatism: We should uphold the methods of social systems that have proven to be successful in the past, including the law, science and good practice while working for their improvement.
• Commitment: We need to belong to the organizations that foster our worldview and enable it to be tested and improved.
• Destiny: We believe that Humanism should offer visions of the future which will inspire the individual and guide the policies of society.