HOH Ideas Club

May 24 2009 - Ideas Club

2009-04-27T10:54:00.000-07:00

May's topic will be "Practical Ethics" by Peter Singer. The presenter will be Rusty Lyon.

The Ideas Club, which is more than just a book club, meets to discuss important ideas in the philosophy of humanism and freethought including its history, ethics, and relationship to economics, politics and comparative religion. The group was started in 1998 by the former Houstonians for Secular Humanism (HSH) The meeting time is 10:30am winding up at about noon on the fourth Sunday of each month. We are fortunate that our meetings can be held in the family home of Dr Louis and Laverl Daily at 1506 North Boulevard. We follow a Book-a-Month format whereby each month a member reviews a book of his or her own choice, which it has been ascertained is of some interest to the other participants. The presentation is always followed by animated discussion. Plan on going to lunch with the group after the meeting, usually at La Madeleine in the Village.

We look forward to seeing you then!

Program for 2007/2008

2008-07-15T11:04:00.000-07:00

Program for 2007/2008

Date	Title	Author	Reviewer
9/23/07	Moral Minds	Marc Hauser	Marian Hillar
10/28/07	The Reason Driven Life	Robert Price	Jim Knierien
11/25/07	Religion Explained	Pascal Boyer	C.J. Renzi
12/15/07 (Sat)	<Alliance Solstice Party>
1/27/08	Infidel	Ayaan Hirsi Ali	Tammy Renzi
2/24/08	Habermas	James Gordon Finlayson	Bob Finch
3/23/08	A Short History of Just About Everything	Bill Bryson	Bill Fricks
4/27/08	The Future of Life	E.O. Wilson	John Simpson
5/25/08	The Science of Good & Evil	Michael Shermer	Roxie Deaton, Bob Finch, Jim Knierien, C.J. Renzi
6/22/08	The World is Flat	Tom Friedman	Sheila Finch
7/27/08	Members' Readings
8/24/08	The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes	Lou Marinoff	Daniel Strain
9/26/08	Recess
10/26/08	Consilience	E.O. Wilson	Louis Daily

Past Topics

2008-07-14T11:14:00.000-07:00

Past Topics

Title	Author	Reviewer
The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins	Marian Hillar
Atheism: A Reader	S.T. Joshi, Editor	Ron Titus
Breaking the Spell	Daniel Dennett	Jim Knierien
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	David Hume	Bob Finch
Christianity Without God	Lloyd Geering	Daniel Strain
The Origins of Totalitarianism	Hannah Arendt	Tom Brucia
Toward a New Political Humanism	Seidman & Murphy	Jim Knierien
The Americans: The Colonial Experience	Daniel Boorstin	Ariel Thomann
Jesus After 2000 Years	Gerd Ludemann	Marian Hillar
The Singularity is Near	Ray Kurzweil	Bob Finch
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders	Amer. Psych. Assoc.	Ron Titus
The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life	A.C. Grayling	Sheila Finch
Bookseller of Kabul	Asne Seierstad	Jimmy Dunne
How Capitalism Saved America	Thomas J. DiLorenzor	Ron Jones
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements	Eric Hoffer	Ron Titus
Human Nature	James Trefil	Sheila Finch
The Agile Gene/Nature via Nurture	Matt Ridley	Cindy Clark
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are	Robert Wright	Marian Hillar
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism	Susan Jacoby	Jim Knierien
God’s Funeral	A.N. Wilson	Tom Brucia
The Poverty of Historicism	Karl Popper	Che Alvandi
The Grass Roots Manual --- The Purpose-Driven Church	AHA ------ Rick Warren	Bob Finch
Why Darwin Matters	Michael Shermer	Jerry Harris
Khomenei: Life of the Ayatollah	Bequer Moin	Tom Brucia
Quest for Divinity: Critical Examination of the Thought of Mahmoud Muhammad Taha	Mohamed A. Mahmoud	Daniel Strain
A Party of One: The Loners Manifesto	Anneli Rufus	Ariel Thomann
Genealogy of Morality	Frederich Nietzsche	Fernando Casas