Sunday Meeting, September 7
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Ceremonial Hall-4th floor
Singing Practice - Led by Patricia Bruder Debrovner and Jerry Ranck.
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Rooms 507 & 508
Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Auditorium
Must Humanists Be Polite?
Dr. Howard Radest, Past Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina
Andra Miller presides
Dr. Howard B. Radest reflects on the so-called new atheists, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett, a group that Susan Jacoby calls “the devil’s party, i.e., the passionate atheists.” At a time when dogmatic and fundamentalist religious belief and conduct challenge the courtesies of dialogue and respect between diverse parties, is civility now possible and desirable?
Dr. Howard B. Radest was Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at USC-Beaufort. He is a consulting member of the SC Medical Association Ethics Committee; a consultant to the Center for Preparedness, School of Public Health, USC; Dean Emeritus of the Humanist Institute; a member of the National Council of Ethical Culture Leaders, and a former member of the Board of the Association for Moral Education. Dr. Radest is a member of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophic Thought, serves on the Advisory Committee of the Appignani Center for Bioethics, and is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Inquiry.
