Author: Bo Bennett, PhD
Narrator: Bo Bennett, PhD
Unabridged: 1 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 11/05/2014
Genre: Religion - Atheism
Positive humanism is an applied secular humanistic philosophy based on the scientific findings of positive psychology that focuses on personal, professional, and societal flourishing.As an applied philosophy its focus is on ideas that lead to increased well-being. As a secular 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 positive side of the mental health spectrum--human flourishing.
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