Category: Video+discussion

Alex Havasy, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., October 31, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum, we will watch and discuss the documentary video “Manufacturing Ignorance”. This is a documentary from the German broadcasting service, Deutsche Welle, showing how companies use science to create uncertainty and mislead the public.

You can view this 42 minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frCIYEyURV0.

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Alex Havasy, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., October 17, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum we will discuss “Making Choices” after watching two TED Talks on the subject. First psycho-economist Sheena Iyengar will talk about “The Art of Choosing.” Then psychologist Barry Schwartz will talk about “The Paradox of Choice.”

You can pre-watch the videos at:

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Alex Havasy, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., October 10, 2021

At next Sunday’s Humanist Forum (October 10), we will watch the video “Talking to Strangers – What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know” by Malcolm Gladwell. Alex Havasy will lead the discussion after the video. He chose this video because he thinks that it makes interesting points about human nature.

You can preview the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgr1Wv8mwh8.

Malcolm Gladwell is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.

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Alex Havasy, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., October 3, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum we will watch Michael Sandel talk about “The Moral Side of Murder” with his students. Afterwards, Alex Havasy will facilitate a discussion of our reactions to the video.

Michael Joseph Sandel (born 1953) is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University Law School, where his course Justice was the university’s first course to be made freely available online and on television.

His many books include The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?; What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets; Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?; The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering; Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics; Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy; and Liberalism and the Limits of Justice.

You can see this 55 minute video here.

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