Spirituality and Mindfulness

Positive Humanism

A Quick Guide to Living the Good, Secular Life

Positive Humanism logo
Quick Course Facts
10
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
10
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
1.1
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Positive Humanism Course

This is a quick course on Positive Humanism, an applied secular humanistic philosophy based on the scientific findings of positive psychology that focuses on personal, professional, and societal flourishing. This course presents an alternative to religions that require belief in the supernatural.

Make Sense of Our Magical World Without the Need for Magic

  • Learn how positive humanism can help you love life
  • Understand morality and ethics without the need for a god
  • Learn how to get the benefits of religion without the religion
  • Understand reason from a naturalistic perspective
  • Learn how to view freewill that is compatible with science
  • Learn how to live a balanced life without irrationality
  • Understand death and dying from a secular perspective

Learn How To Love Life Under a Secular Worldview

As an applied philosophy it offers practical solutions to increase well-being. As a humanistic philosophy, there are no appeals to the supernatural, the magical, or the mystical—the philosophy is founded on reason and critical thinking. The philosophy is science-based, meaning it is void of the unsupported and/or exaggerated claims and the constant confusing of correlation with causality often found in the self-help genre. The philosophy is grounded in the theories of positive psychology, which is the study of the other side of the mental health spectrum—human thriving. The philosophy focuses on concrete strategies to help individuals in all areas of personal growth and professional success, primarily through being of prosocial acts and through distributed kindness.

This course is especially beneficial for the many people who no longer can believe the supernatural claims of their former religion, but still don't know how to understand life's important questions from a secular point of view. Best of all, this course can bring one peace of mind and greater well-being.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Course Introduction

2 lessons

Lesson 1: Introduction

7 min Preview
The topics in this lesson include: Positive humanism is not anti-religion; it is however anti-anti-humanism. Positive humanism is not for everyone. Positive humanism is not the same as positive psycho…

Lesson 10: test

1 min

Essays

7 lessons

Lesson 2: Positive Humanism 2.0: Living the Good, Secular Life

6 min

Lesson 3: The Morality of Positive Humanism

13 min

Lesson 4: Religion: A Middleman to Well-Being

6 min

Lesson 5: Making Sense of Reason

6 min

Lesson 6: Exploring the “F” Word: Freewill

11 min

Lesson 7: “Balance” Does Not Have To Mean Being Irrational

7 min

Lesson 8: On Dying and Living

7 min

Bonus

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Live Presentation

In this presentation I go into more detail then is present in this course and cover some different topics.
About Your Instructor

Your Instructor

Your Instructor guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.