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Positive Illusions: What’s So Great About Truth?
February’s topic of the
moderated by Tom Clark
February 19, 7:30-9:30 pm
(
McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, in conjunction with the Center for
Naturalism, continues year 5 of its discussion group series, the Davis
Square
February’s topic, “Positive Illusions: What’s So Great About Truth?,"
will focus on the following:
Socrates
said that the unexamined life isn’t worth living. But what if discovering the
truth about ourselves didn’t set us free, but merely depressed us? Are we
sometimes better off believing falsehoods, or should commitment to truth always
come first? Is it possible to knowingly deceive ourselves, and if so, should we?
(Background
of the moderator)
Tom Clark is director of the Boston-based Center for
Naturalism and author of Encountering
Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses. He writes on science,
naturalism, free will, consciousness, addiction and other topics, and maintains
an extensive website on philosophical and applied naturalism, Naturalism.Org.
As moderator of the
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