Download or read book Just Pretend written by Dan Barker and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares concepts of God to concepts of other mythological beings and stories.

Download or read book Freethought Across the Centuries written by Gerald A. Larue and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kindly Inquisitors written by Jonathan Rauch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic “compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies” now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will (Kirkus Reviews). “A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.” So writes Jonathan Rauch in Kindly Inquisitors, which has challenged readers for decades with its provocative analysis of attempts to limit free speech. In it, Rauch makes a persuasive argument for the value of “liberal science” and the idea that conflicting views produce knowledge within society. In this expanded edition of Kindly Inquisitors, a new foreword by George F. Will explores the book’s continued relevance, while a substantial new afterword by Rauch elaborates upon his original argument and brings it fully up to date. Two decades after the book’s initial publication, the regulation of hate speech has grown both domestically and internationally. But the answer to prejudice, Rauch argues, is pluralism—not purism. Rather than attempting to legislate bias and prejudice out of existence, we must pit them against one another to foster a more vigorous and fruitful discussion. It is this process, Rauch argues, that will enable our society to replace hate with knowledge, both ethical and empirical.

Download or read book Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe written by Tomáš Bubík and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In contrast to scholarship that has focused on the ‘decline of religion’ and secularization theory, the book builds upon recent trends to focus on the ‘rise of non-religion’ itself. While the label of ‘post-communism’ might suggest a generalized perception of the region, this survey reveals that the precise developments in each country before, after and even during the communist era are surprisingly diverse. A multinational team of contributors provide interdisciplinary case studies covering Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. This approach utilises perspectives from social and intellectual history in combination with sociology of religion in order to cover the historical development of secularity and secular thought, complemented with sociological data. The study is framed by methodological and analytical chapters. Offering an important geographical perspective to the study of freethought, atheism, secularity and non-religion, this wide-ranging book will be of significant interest to scholars of twentieth-century social and intellectual history, sociology of religion and non-religion, cultural and religious studies, philosophy and theology.

Download or read book The Ethic of Freethought written by Karl Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Short History of Freethought written by John M. Robertson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A Short History of Freethought by John M. Robertson

Download or read book A Short History of Freethought written by John Mackinnon Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A GRAMMAR OF FREETHOUGHT written by Chapman Cohen and published by HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organized Freethought written by Shirley A. Mullen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England’s working classes from 1840-1870. In particular, it is an effort to explain the peculiarly theological and evangelistic overtones of much Victorian working class radicalism, and the resulting emergence of a Victorian religion of atheism. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century religious and social history.

Download or read book A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern written by John Mackinnon Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freethought and modern Progress A lecture written by Charles WATTS (Secretary of the National Secular Society.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Agnostic written by Susan Jacoby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography that restores America's foremost 19th-century champion of reason and secularism to the still contested 21st-century public square.

Download or read book The Church and Freethought written by Franklin Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freethought and Freedom written by George H. Smith and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty of conscience and freedom of thought are twin, core components of modern life in societies across the world. The ability to pursue one?s vision of the right and the good, coupled with liberty to pursue individual reason and enlightenment, helped produce so much of modern life that we may be apt to forget that libertarian philosophy was not dictated by Nature. Freethought and Freedom surveys the long history of religious and intellectual liberty, exploring their key ideas along the way.

Download or read book Arrows of Freethought written by G. W. Foote and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will love this collection of articles by British secular philosopher George W. Foote. These articles have been published in the Secularist, the Liberal, the National Reformer, and the Freethinker. Contents: Religion and Progress, A Defense of Thomas Paine, The Gospel of Freethought, cont.

Download or read book Romantic Atheism written by Martin Priestman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain from the 1780s onwards. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, establishing the depth of their engagement with such discourses, and in some cases their active participation. Equal attention is given to less canonical writers: such poet-intellectuals as Erasmus Darwin, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and controversialists including Holbach, Volney, Paine, Priestley, Godwin, Richard Carlile and Eliza Sharples (these last two in particular representing the close links between punishably outspoken atheism and radical working-class politics). Above all, the book conveys the excitement of Romantic atheism, whose dramatic appeals to new developments in politics, science and comparative mythology lend it a protean energy belied by the common and more recent conception of 'loss of faith'.

Download or read book Freethought is it Destructive Or Constructive written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: