We discuss the biggest questions: "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" with scientists, celebrities, activists, writers and philosophers. The Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a simple, yet radical, philosophy that's grounded in reality (naturalistic epistemology) and has compassion for all sentient beings (mostly human and non-human animals). Naturalism & sentiocentrism combined.
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This episode is a cross-post of my discussion with Louisa Jane Smith on “The RE Podcast“. Her audience are some of the most important people in the world – religions and worldview teachers and their students. Make sure you go and subscribe there too.
As well as hosting the podcast Louisa is a Religious Education Teacher and Head of Life Skills at a school in England. She a member of the National Association for Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE) executive committee as well as being a public speaker and author. Louisa was also my guest on Sentientism episode 205 if you want to hear more about her philosophical journey so far.
If you’re a teacher or are just interested, why not join our next free webinar on “Teaching the Sentientism Worldview”?
I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did talking – feedback and suggestions are always welcome. As ever I’m only one Sentientist so others will disagree!
I also wanted to extend a warm welcome to everyone who has recently joined one of our online Sentientism communities. More people join us there every day – whether they think of themselves as Sentientists or not. The groups are open to everyone. Just search for the word “Sentientism” on your favourite platforms
and you’ll find us there. FaceBook is our biggest group so far with 2,300 members from over 100 countries.
Soon we’ll have 14,000 subscribers on YouTube too. It’s great to have your support there.
Also check out the new ”In action” section of Sentientism.info. We’re building pages there about Sentientist Education, Politics, Rights, Economics, Justice, Agriculture, Environmentalism and more – come and help us work out what a more Sentientist world might look like.
A final thank you to Denise and Tarabella who found our secret Sentientism Patreon and are kindly contributing to our production costs – helping us steadily nudge the world
towards “evidence, reason and compassion”.
Thanks for listening!
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