Our Organisation
We regularly meet in Wellington, and have members throughout New Zealand.
We are affiliated internationally to the IHEU and the United Nations Association of NZ.
We are a non-profit society dedicated to Humanist thought and ideals in New Zealand.
We support ethics; giving the greatest possible freedom compatible with the rights of others; the constructive use of rational thought and scientific enquiry; democracy and human rights; personal liberty combined with social responsibility; a secular world based on observation, evaluation, and revision.
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Monthly Meeting
25/05/2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
Monthly meeting: Monday 25 May
Making & Changing Moral Decisions
Dan Burkett, PhD Student and philosophy tutor at Rice University, Houston Texas
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