Brights Movement

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== Enthusiastic Brights ==
 
== Enthusiastic Brights ==
  
"Enthusiastic" brights supposedly include [[Daniel Dennett]] , [[James Randi]], Steven Pinker , [[Richard Dawkins]] , and [[Penn and Teller|Penn & Teller]]<ref>http://www.the-brights.net/people/enthusiastic/index.html</ref>
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"Enthusiastic" brights supposedly include [[Daniel Dennett]], [[James Randi]], Steven Pinker , [[Richard Dawkins]], and [[Penn and Teller|Penn & Teller]].<ref>http://www.the-brights.net/people/enthusiastic/index.html</ref>
  
 
==Reception==
 
==Reception==

Revision as of 03:19, 13 July 2008

The Brights Movement describes "brights" as follows: [1]

  • A bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview.
  • A bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements.
  • The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic worldview.

As a consequence "The Brights Movement" is naturally open to anyone who has a rationalistic or naturalistic worldview.


Contents

Aims

The movement describes its aims as:

  • To promote the civic understanding and acknowledgment of the naturalistic worldview, which is free of supernatural and mystical elements.
  • To gain public recognition that persons who hold such a worldview can bring principled actions to bear on matters of civic importance.
  • To educate society toward accepting the full and equitable civic participation of all such individuals.

History

The term "bright" was coined (or stolen) to be used in this context in 2002 by Paul Geisert.[2]

Enthusiastic Brights

"Enthusiastic" brights supposedly include Daniel Dennett, James Randi, Steven Pinker , Richard Dawkins, and Penn & Teller.[3]

Reception

The brights movement has met with mixed responses, even from those who it would technically include. Many find the choice of the term to be embarrassingly condescending - perhaps useful as snark or psrodt, but not as a name for a broad based umbrella movement.

References

  1. http://www.the-brights.net/
  2. Brights Net biography entry on Paul Geisert
  3. http://www.the-brights.net/people/enthusiastic/index.html
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