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(Wikipedia).\n\nDeism differs from Atheism, which proposes that natural processes are solely responsible for the existence of the universe, or Theism, which professes a knowledge of God who can only be known through revelation given to certain people. Religion is a Theistic worldview.\n\n**History and Background:**\nDeism gained prominence in the 17th and 18th centuries as religion was increasingly challenged and scientific knowledge of the natural world expanded dramatically. Deists believed that divine laws could be discerned from a study of nature rather than sacred texts, and seeing the work of a supreme designer in the order of the natural world. Many scientists and philosophers of the time, such as Voltaire and Leibniz, were Deists (Wikipedia) as well as those involved in the founding of the United States, including Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.\n\nDeism declined following further scientific advancement and discoveries, particularly related to the age of the universe and the origins of humanity, leading many to an Atheistic worldview that the universe was solely created and exists in accordance with natural laws. Religion also staged a revival as science was seen as stripping away individual and communal spirituality that many find comforting.\n\n**So, why Deism?**\nAs religious intolerance remains stubbornly entrenched and science postulates a purely material universe devoid of higher purpose, can Deism help humanity to find meaning in existence and a way of living in harmony with each other and the world around us?\n\n**Questions for discussion:**\nIf the universe is the work of a creator (a concious being/s acting freely and rationally) as believed by Deists, then:\n\n1. Would humanity and the natural world have greater meaning and value to us than if they were the product of blind chance?\n2. Is our experienced reality ‘real’, meaning that our actions, or lack of them, actually matter and form part of the ongoing story of the universe?\n3. Would our understanding of natural laws have a spiritual dimension? Would the creator want us to know its intentions and increase our knowledge of its existence through our understanding of the universe?\n4. What would our moral values and decisions be if we tried to extrapolate them from the laws of nature? For example, should we help others at risk to ourselves?\n5. What should be humanity’s concerns and priorities based on the laws of nature, for example of issues like climate change, population, etc?\n6. Would it mean that we have free will, as compared to a deterministic universe where each action is the result of the previous one?\n\n**References:**\n**[Deism: Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism)**\n**[List of Deists: Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deists)**\n**[What is Deism? Long Video](https://youtu.be/vByIKKgkM20?si=IXs1pu7pP8nJdgyt)**\n**[Deism Explained. Short Video](https://youtu.be/7-b0nU_SzRM?si=zrgj9u2M9no8wUoy)**\n\n***\n\nHeader Image: Eta Carinae regions of the Carina Nebula\nAuthor: European Southern Observatory.\nSource: [http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1031b/](http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1031b/)\n\n***\n\n*Anyone can attend this session. No experience in philosophy or knowledge of the subject is required in advance. Just come along and enjoy. Our events use the the 4Cs of community philosophy:*\n\n* ***Caring*** *for others, making space for their contributions*\n* ***Collaborating*** *to get a better mutual understanding rather than scoring points*\n* ***Critically*** *assessing what we say, clarifying what is meant and asking what reasons support assertions*\n* ***Creatively*** *coming up with alternative perspectives, rather than dogmatically sticking to our initial positions*\n\n*We welcome everyone of a wide range of ages, social and educational backgrounds etc. Don't worry if you don't have a qualification in philosophy - almost no-one does. Occasionally, attendees will be asked to watch, read or listen to a short piece of material in advance of the session (as the 'stimulus' for discussion), but this will be minimal and will be made clear in the description of the session.*\n\n*We ask for donations of £1 per session from those who can afford to pay to cover the costs of the Meetup subscription. First timers are exempt. Don't feel obliged to pay if you can't afford it - or pay less. Feel free to put £5 to cover five sessions or however you want to donate - this is left entirely up to you.*","price":"Free","unit":null,"currency":null,"company":null,"language":"en","online":1,"infoType":1,"biz":"community","postDate":"1762436173000","seoName":"is-deism-an-alternative-to-religion-or-atheism","supplement":null,"author":null,"originalPrice":null,"soldCnt":null,"topSeller":null,"source":1,"cardType":null,"action":"https://uk.ok.com/en/city-bicester/cate-classes-lessons/is-deism-an-alternative-to-religion-or-atheism-6431183015475412/","localIds":"173","cateId":null,"tid":null,"logParams":{"tid":"b5fc40f7-4764-4b2b-8776-00d4735d7560","sid":"86a56eb3-e24f-499f-960c-761121ce0f38"},"attrParams":{},"addDate":1762436173084,"categoryName":null,"postCode":null,"secondCateCode":"classes-lessons","kycTag":null,"pictureUrls":null,"isFavorite":false},{"category":"6503,6506","location":"21 Rectory Rd, Oxford OX4 1BU, UK","infoId":"6425436239232212","pictureUrl":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/9/9/8/highres_508603416.jpeg","videos":null,"title":"Oxford Rationalish Pub Social","content":"Pub this month is Wed 19th November 6:30pm, at The Star\n\nCome by! Meet interesting people, chat interesting chat <3\n\nNormally we just chat about whatever comes up. Past topics of conversation have included AI alignment, collaborative disagreement, calibrating personal predictions (how to measure and improve your own predictions), decision theory (Newcomb's paradox, Parfit's hitchhiker, etc), miscellaneous tech stuff (LLMs, etc), animal husbandry (how to flip a goat, and why), and much much more.\n\nWe'll be in the second big room in the back with a sign!","price":"Free","unit":null,"currency":null,"company":null,"language":"en","online":1,"infoType":1,"biz":"community","postDate":"1761987206000","seoName":"oxford-rationalish-pub-social","supplement":null,"author":null,"originalPrice":null,"soldCnt":null,"topSeller":null,"source":1,"cardType":null,"action":"https://uk.ok.com/en/city-bicester/cate-classes-lessons/oxford-rationalish-pub-social-6425436239232212/","localIds":"173","cateId":null,"tid":null,"logParams":{"tid":"cb32a621-436c-47e2-9510-4df2cc0e8938","sid":"86a56eb3-e24f-499f-960c-761121ce0f38"},"attrParams":{},"addDate":1761987206189,"categoryName":null,"postCode":null,"secondCateCode":"classes-lessons","kycTag":null,"pictureUrls":null,"isFavorite":false},{"category":"6503,6506","location":"38 Abingdon Rd, Oxford OX1 4PD, UK","infoId":"6425369779289812","pictureUrl":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/d/5/highres_529083029.jpeg","videos":null,"title":"Where do we get our morals from?","content":"**Where do we get our morals from?**\n\nFor millennia there has been no doubt as to what the steadfast reply to this question is. Our morals come from God. Whatever our religious belief has been it has always been assumed that how we behave would be dictated from above and God’s appointed representatives on Earth will tell us what is right or wrong not only with that we do, but also with how we think. God has been the first and most important Thought Police in our lives.\n\n**Part 1**\nThe fact that all of the above may not quite wash with us in this new millennium is the subject of tonight’s talk and suggestions are invited as to:\n\n1. What makes us behave, comply and obey?\n2. How relevant is the religious control of our morals today?\n3. What alternatives can be discussed as a viable and effective way to control society?\n\n**Part 2**\nThe terms \"morals\" and \"ethics\" are sometimes used interchangeably in everyday conversation, but they denote distinct concepts. Whilst morals are personal principles of right and wrong, ethics are codes of conduct that members of a group, society or profession agree to follow.\n\n1. Do ethical considerations simply add to our individual moral values in determining what we consider to be the right or wrong thing to do?\n2. What happens if ethics and morals clash? (For instance, a journalist's code of ethics may require them to protect the anonymity of their sources whereas their own moral code may tell them that they should be honest and name those sources.)\n\nThese and other points are encouraged in tonight’s discussion bearing in mind, as always, the philosophical recommendations of our debates embodied in the four Cs outlined below..\n\n***\n\nAnyone can attend this session. No experience in philosophy or knowledge of the subject is required in advance. Just come along and enjoy. Our events use the the 4Cs of community philosophy:\n\n* **Caring** for others, making space for their contributions\n* **Collaborating** to get a better mutual understanding rather than scoring points\n* **Critically** assessing what we say, clarifying what is meant and asking what reasons support assertions\n* **Creatively** coming up with alternative perspectives, rather than dogmatically sticking to our initial positions\n\nWe welcome everyone of a wide range of ages, social and educational backgrounds etc. Don't worry if you don't have a qualification in philosophy - almost no-one does. Occasionally, attendees will be asked to watch, read or listen to a short piece of material in advance of the session (as the 'stimulus' for discussion), but this will be minimal and will be made clear in the description of the session.\n\nWe ask for donations of £1 per session from those who can afford to pay to cover the costs of the Meetup subscription. First timers are exempt. Don't feel obliged to pay if you can't afford it - or pay less. Feel free to put £5 to cover five sessions or however you want to donate - this is left entirely up to you.","price":"Free","unit":null,"currency":null,"company":null,"language":"en","online":1,"infoType":1,"biz":"community","postDate":"1761982014000","seoName":"where-do-we-get-our-morals-from","supplement":null,"author":null,"originalPrice":null,"soldCnt":null,"topSeller":null,"source":1,"cardType":null,"action":"https://uk.ok.com/en/city-bicester/cate-classes-lessons/where-do-we-get-our-morals-from-6425369779289812/","localIds":"173","cateId":null,"tid":null,"logParams":{"tid":"ed7d2702-4f8b-4404-8480-f0cecb911576","sid":"86a56eb3-e24f-499f-960c-761121ce0f38"},"attrParams":{},"addDate":1761982014006,"categoryName":null,"postCode":null,"secondCateCode":"classes-lessons","kycTag":null,"pictureUrls":null,"isFavorite":false},{"category":"6503,6506","location":"38 Abingdon Rd, Oxford OX1 4PD, UK","infoId":"6400175087232312","pictureUrl":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/d/5/highres_529083029.jpeg","videos":null,"title":"The Concept of Illusion: Use and Abuse","content":"More information to follow.\nWorking title: “The meaning and (mis)use of the concept of Illusion”…\nThe idea for this is driven by various uses of “X is an illusion” in forms of argument (reality/consciousness/identity etc ) and the structure will be driven by key examples in philosophy plus an attempt to define what we mean by illusion.\n\n***\n\nAnyone can attend this session. No experience in philosophy or knowledge of the subject is required in advance. Just come along and enjoy. Our events use the the 4Cs of community philosophy:\n\n* **Caring** for others, making space for their contributions\n* **Collaborating** to get a better mutual understanding rather than scoring points\n* **Critically** assessing what we say, clarifying what is meant and asking what reasons support assertions\n* **Creatively** coming up with alternative perspectives, rather than dogmatically sticking to our initial positions\n\nWe welcome everyone of a wide range of ages, social and educational backgrounds etc. Don't worry if you don't have a qualification in philosophy - almost no-one does. Occasionally, attendees will be asked to watch, read or listen to a short piece of material in advance of the session (as the 'stimulus' for discussion), but this will be minimal and will be made clear in the description of the session.\n\nWe ask for donations of £1 per session from those who can afford to pay to cover the costs of the Meetup subscription. First timers are exempt. Don't feel obliged to pay if you can't afford it - or pay less. 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We can show you how to make these mostly ancient philosophies relevant to our lives today.\nYou will join a small group (max 15) of like minded people of all ages all walks of life and many religions or none.\nIn groups we discuss concepts from mostly ancient philosophies and practise mindfulness exercises which our school has been offering since the 1950's. When students are ready they can take up mantra meditation.\nOur introductory course is ten weekly sessions long and forms part of a foundation year in Practical Philosophy.\nWhy not visit our website and to find out more you can order a free prospectus.\n[https://oxford.schoolofphilosophy.org/](https://oxford.schoolofphilosophy.org/)\nWe are a registered charity and no one in our School is paid. What's more this introductory course is subsidised by students who want to share the benefits they have found.\nCome and see!\n\nPrice **£80** (usual price £165) if you book before the first session.\n**Full Price for 10 WEEKS is just £80**\n**Pay by Stripe:**\nhttps://buy.stripe.com/cNi28r8Rs30bcrE5BD0Fi0o\nApply the **Early Bird Discount of £85** with this code\n**EB85** (Valid till 21/09/2025)","price":"£80","unit":null,"currency":null,"company":null,"language":"en","online":1,"infoType":1,"biz":"community","postDate":"1757411393000","seoName":"an-introduction-to-practical-philosophy-a-ten-week-course","supplement":null,"author":null,"originalPrice":null,"soldCnt":null,"topSeller":null,"source":1,"cardType":null,"action":"https://uk.ok.com/en/city-bicester/cate-classes-lessons/an-introduction-to-practical-philosophy-a-ten-week-course-6366865831885112/","localIds":"173","cateId":null,"tid":null,"logParams":{"tid":"b4e56ecb-be3c-45d6-bd7f-7cd78c2018b2","sid":"86a56eb3-e24f-499f-960c-761121ce0f38"},"attrParams":{},"addDate":1757411393115,"categoryName":null,"postCode":null,"secondCateCode":"classes-lessons","kycTag":null,"pictureUrls":null,"isFavorite":false},{"category":"6503,6506","location":"37 Ock St, Abingdon OX14 5AG, UK","infoId":"6366865830003512","pictureUrl":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/f/0/a/highres_527043850.jpeg","videos":null,"title":"Topic to be decided ","content":"Topic: To be decided\n\nAnyone can attend this session. No experience in philosophy or knowledge of the subject is required in advance. Just come along and enjoy. Our events use the 4Cs of community philosophy:\n\n* **Caring** for others, making space for their contributions\n* **Collaborating** to get a better mutual understanding rather than scoring points\n* **Critically** assessing what we say, clarifying what is meant and asking what reasons support assertions\n* **Creatively** coming up with alternative perspectives, rather than dogmatically sticking to our initial positions\n\nWe welcome everyone of a wide range of ages, social and educational backgrounds etc. Don't worry if you don't have a qualification in philosophy - almost no-one does. Occasionally, attendees will be asked to watch, read or listen to a short piece of material in advance of the session (as the 'stimulus' for discussion), but this will be minimal and will be made clear in the description of the session.\n\nNote that we collect voluntary contributions from attendees to cover the cost of the Meetup subscription. First time attendees and anyone who is financially stretched need not contribute.","price":"Free","unit":null,"currency":null,"company":null,"language":"en","online":1,"infoType":1,"biz":"community","postDate":"1757411392000","seoName":"topic-to-be-decided","supplement":null,"author":null,"originalPrice":null,"soldCnt":null,"topSeller":null,"source":1,"cardType":null,"action":"https://uk.ok.com/en/city-bicester/cate-classes-lessons/topic-to-be-decided-6366865830003512/","localIds":"779","cateId":null,"tid":null,"logParams":{"tid":"c45280e7-b1bb-4160-b329-5e5690e54aed","sid":"86a56eb3-e24f-499f-960c-761121ce0f38"},"attrParams":{},"addDate":1757411392969,"categoryName":null,"postCode":null,"secondCateCode":"classes-lessons","kycTag":null,"pictureUrls":null,"isFavorite":false},{"category":"6503,6506","location":"12 St Andrew's Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DL, UK","infoId":"6365502268365112","pictureUrl":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/6/6/9/highres_529929833.jpeg","videos":null,"title":"What has Progress ever given us?","content":"What has progress ever given us?\n\n“Our civilization is characterized by the word ‘progress’. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features.” Ludwig Wittgenstein\n\nWhen thinking about ideas and the thinkers that produce them we often make implicit assumptions about the benefits of the progress that these ideas contribute to. What kinds of progress do we want or need? Can all progress be sustainable? Is progress always beneficial? Is progress just the evolution of complex systems? Should we privilege one state of such a system over another?\n\nIn this session we will be discussing these questions and related topics including a brief exercise to imagine ourselves in different times and in different cultures.\n\nSupporting Video Links:\n**[John Gray on progress](https://share.google/H4KfNaAufGUJVEmBk)**\n**[Rupert Read on Progress and Wittgenstein](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPcQ6sIOTY)**\n**[Monk debate on progress](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUmBWB54riE) [Long]**\n\nInteresting background reading:\n**[If we don't rethink the concept of progress, it could point society toward oblivion - Macleans.ca](https://macleans.ca/facebook-instant-articles/if-we-dont-rethink-the-concept-of-progress-it-could-point-society-toward-oblivion/)**\n**[Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?](https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20220615-do-we-need-a-better-understanding-of-progress)**\n**[Is 'Progress' Good for Humanity? - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/the-industrial-revolution-and-its-discontents/379781/)**\n**[When is Progress Really Progress? | Absolute Engagement Blog](https://absoluteengagement.com/blog/when-is-progress-really-progress)**\n**[Do Human Progress Trends Justify the Status Quo?](https://humanprogress.org/do-human-progress-trends-justify-the-status-quo/)**\n**[Kate Soper – The growth agenda is no longer feasible. What is the alternative?](https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2023/06/26/kate-soper-the-growth-agenda-is-no-longer-feasible-what-is-the-alternative)**\n\n***\n\nAnyone can attend this session. No experience in philosophy or knowledge of the subject is required in advance. Just come along and enjoy. Our events use the the 4Cs of community philosophy:\n\n* **Caring** for others, making space for their contributions\n* **Collaborating** to get a better mutual understanding rather than scoring points\n* **Critically** assessing what we say, clarifying what is meant and asking what reasons support assertions\n* **Creatively** coming up with alternative perspectives, rather than dogmatically sticking to our initial positions\n\nWe welcome everyone of a wide range of ages, social and educational backgrounds etc. Don't worry if you don't have a qualification in philosophy - almost no-one does. Occasionally, attendees will be asked to watch, read or listen to a short piece of material in advance of the session (as the 'stimulus' for discussion), but this will be minimal and will be made clear in the description of the session.\n\nWe ask for donations of £1 per session from those who can afford to pay to cover the costs of the Meetup subscription. First timers are exempt. Don't feel obliged to pay if you can't afford it - or pay less. 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Instead, they present an image of a celebrity or happy family, with the implication that we should look 'like them' It is the power of The Spectacle, something the Situationist movement, active from the 1950’s to 1970’s banged on about. Fifty years later, do their views, on the power of the image, still resonate? Has social media turbo charged the phenomenon?\n\nBut who were the Situationists? Many core messages from the movement were delivered by the philosopher Guy Debord, in his 1967 book ‘The society of the Spectacle’. To set out, what at times may appear a willfully obscure ideology. Here is a Situationist quote:\n*Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.*\nThe shift to how we appear, indeed 'looks' as heavily curated, for photos, TikTok shorts, box set series, facebook and instagram to Hollywood movies, but also through AI texts, dominates now far more than it did in the 1960’s. We increasingly live our lives, one could argue, through representations of it, rather than first-hand experiences of it.\n\nImagine a portrait gallery where hundreds of people are looking at a few individual depictions of people, ....rather than at the real people surrounding them.\nImagine a bustling Park where a child is clicking the buttons on a game about visiting a park on their tablet whilst all around the trees are dropping leaves, the lake refracts and ripples, and children run about laughing and playing together.\nImagine watching a sunset on your TV whilst one is occurring live outside your window.\nSo, is Situationism just an obsession with easy imagery? No. Here is another Situationist quote -\n*The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation between people, mediated by images.*\n\nAt a music festival you may expect the grittiness of camping, seeing bands live, making use of sub-par bathroom facilities etc to be direct and visceral. Yet even here, is the ‘Spectacle’ mediated? Are crowds largely performing their crowd roles in the way bands perform their sets? Is everyone dutifully taking selfies showing themselves in front of the structures set up with the purpose of people having selfie opportunities? Is life increasingly about a step back from direct experience and more about acting in a way we have seen the spectacle depict for us? Is it less about being and more about appearing to be? The ‘image’ remaining essential to how everyone feels about themselves and others. Has the 'look' become the experience? Even philosophers could be more interested in appearing philosophical than experiencing, un-fettered, the full range of human ideas and potential.\n\nThe Situationist ideology, though it was never clearly and consistently articulated, was also big on nurture rather than nature. Take this quote –\n*You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you\\\\'ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.*\nSituationists were appalled by the way work and indeed leisure was increasingly commodified.\nTake ‘wild swimming’. Two decades ago those who jumped into random outdoor watercourses were mostly oddball thrill seekers. These days it is often far from ‘wild’.\nThe Situationists would likely ask: When ‘wild swimmers’ go swimming, are they feeling the cold water on their skin; the weeds, mud and rocks under their feet etc. Are they really conscious of their situation. Or are they reveling in fitting an image, a spectacle, the correct look, of health and adventure?\n\nPerhaps it is truly Epicurean to reject the fakery of the spectacle and live instead more simply and happily and truer to ourselves?\n\nAnd what would E.P. Thompson have to say on working class collusion in not just attaining things for material improvement, but to look the part. How we all no longer simply aspire to own a posh frock or classy shirt, but clothing with a label emblazoned across the front of it. A statement of slavish adherence to the image portrayed by wearing Nike, The North Face or Tommy Hilfiger. A kind of visual reference point of who we are or want to be seen as. A substitute for genuine emancipation. A view that Situationists would say was driven by the need for constant market expansion, making us no more than kens or Barbies, adorned with accessories ,,,,but ultimately empty.\n\nHere are some philosophical questions we could tackle on this-\n\n1.Are second hand (metaphysical?) relationships to the world, and to others in it, as meaningful as directly experienced and/or unmediated encounters?\n2.\na) Do we think in images?\nb) Are images reference points to aid thinking?\nc) Do images dictate behavior and stop us thinking and acting creatively and meaningfully?\n\n3.Is the way we see products, politicians, scientists, even the whole concept of truth, about how it is spun?\n\n4\\. Has the explosion of imagery in the last hundred years driven a fundamental shift in how we see ourselves and others?\n\n5\\. 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