Pragmatic Humanism - 10 Practical Guidelines

In the 18th Century, British Empiricism founded modern empirical science to overcome human prejudices by religion, tradition and personality. Pragmatic Humanism supports personal responsibility by 10 positivist guidelines serving to unfold our human potential: • Applied Neuroeconomic Psychology (NeP) Guides Individual Economic Behavior: (1) Sensitivity training, (2) Entrepreneurship and (3) Stress management. (4) Prevention of subjective biases in behavioral science. (5) Mutual understanding between genders. • Universal Technology Assessment (UTA) Guides the Priority of Collective Needs: (6) The marginal global net growth effect will be negative before 2050 pushing burdens to future generations and (7) A subsidy to non-fossil energy alternatives (ES) is recommended to protect the ecosystem. (8) Social welfare by short-term stabilization policies and Universal Basic Income. (9) Democratic collaboration across-the-center serves implementation of (8). (10) UTA divides the global economy in the rich North and the developing South, opening an option for a unilateral implementation of ES by the Global North. The Discussion focuses both on the relation between Pragmatic Humanism and democracy, and how ES in a globalized economy must replace the mainstream recommendation of a tariff on CO2 emission (ET).