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Carleton Coon
are bom, evolve and die, drawing on the latest findings of evolutionary psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, and others.
He establishes a new context in which we can look at many old questions, like: What is consciousness? Is there such a thing as a human soul? Is there life after death? Is God a creature of human imagination, or something more? Can there be ethics without God? What is the essence of democracy? What is the proper role of the scientific method in helping us judge emerging moral issues?
“You won’t find all the answers spelled out in my book, but if you think about my views, you’ll almost certainly develop some fresh thoughts about them,” said Coon. “And what do you expect from a simple, clearly written book only 139 pages long?”
About Carlton Coon
Carleton Coon is a retired U.S. diplomat living in Washington, Virginia and Washington, D.C. He was bom in 1927, graduated from Harvard in 1949 (after serving briefly in the U.S. Army at the end of World War II), and joined the U.S. Foreign Service that same year. •
During his 37 years of government service, Coon was posted in various countries stretching from Morocco to Nepal. Prior to his retirement in 1985, Coon served as U.S. Ambassador to Nepal.
Coon’s main interest is in different cultures and different people. His second main interest is music — mostly western classical, but also non-western music.
He has written many essays. To learn more, visit www.progressivehumanism.com.
Copies of “One Planet, One People — Beyond Us vs. Them” will be available for purchase at the February 11 event.
Admission is free.
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