We're extremely excited to have Professor Callum Brown present to our first online Humanists in Berkshire* session. Callum is one of the authors of the recently published book, The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain, and a leading historian of secularisation and humanism in Britain. He will be discussing one of themes from the book: Why were British humanists so confident in the 1960s?
How important is it to think for yourself?
Socrates was executed in 399 BC because he questioned Athenian views about the gods and morality. The history of daring to criticise mainstream opinion, especially in matters of religion, is a defining feature of the intellectual development of the West. Through historical and contemporary examples including Socrates, Shelley, Charles Bradlaugh and Salman Rushdie, Emma Park will consider the importance of thinking for yourself, of learned uncertainty and liberating doubt, to the flourishing of the individual and wider society – and the place of the Freethinker in all this.
