Download or read book Professor Huxley and Religion written by W. Halliday Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science" (Essay #6 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition") by Thomas Henry Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this selection of his most important writings, renowned scientist and philosopher Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) discusses his views on the demonstrative evidence of evolution, the physical basis of life, naturalism and supernaturalism, agnosticism and Christianity, and the Christian tradition in relation to Judaic Christianity.
Download or read book Collected Essays Volume 5 Science and the Christian Tradition written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Australia while working as an assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy; ultimately he became President of the Royal Society (1883-5). Throughout his life Huxley struggled with issues of faith, and he coined the term 'agnostic' to describe his beliefs. This nine-volume collection of Huxley's essays, which he edited and published in 1893-4, demonstrates the wide range of his intellectual interests. In Volume 5, Huxley discusses the doctrines of Christianity and explains how his dissatisfaction with conventional religion led him to agnosticism.
Download or read book Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T H Huxley written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley" by Thomas Henry Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Huxley s Church and Maxwell s Demon written by Matthew Stanley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Victorian period science shifted from being practiced in a theistic context (integrating religious considerations and ideas) to a naturalistic context (explicitly forbidding religious matters). This book examines the foundations of that change. While it is generally thought that the transformation was due to the methodological superiority of naturalistic science, Matthew Stanley shows that most of the methodological values underlying scientific practice were virtually identical between the theists and the naturalists. Each agreed on the importance of the uniformity of natural laws, the use of hypothesis and theory, the moral value of science, and intellectual freedom. This was despite the claims by both groups that those fundamentals were intrinsic to their worldview, and completely incompatible with that of their opponents. Stanley goes on to argue that the victory of the scientific naturalists came from deliberate strategies executed over a generation to gain control of the institutions of scientific education and to re-imagine the history of their discipline. Rather than a sudden revolution, the similarity between theistic and naturalistic science allowed for a relatively smooth transition in practice from the old guard to the new. "Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon" explores this shift through a parallel study of two major scientific figures: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic. Both were deeply engaged in the methodological, institutional, and political issues that were crucial to the theistic-naturalistic transformation. The author s astute examination of the ascendance of scientific naturalism sheds new light on the controversies over science and religion in modern America. "
Download or read book Thomas Henry Huxley written by Edward Clodd and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley written by Irving Wilson Voorhees and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions is a good way to spend the afternoon deep in the contemplation of existence. Contents: "THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PALÆONTOLOGY An Address delivered at the York Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1881, THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND THE INTERPRETERS OF NATURE Nineteenth Century, December 1885, MR GLADSTONE AND GENESIS Nineteenth Century, February 1886, Note on the proper sense of the "Mosaic" narrative of the Creation..."
Download or read book Professor Huxley and Religion written by William Gilman Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution and Ethics written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by Great Minds. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two essays by the famous 19th-century champion of Darwin's theory of evolution tackle a subject that is still a major focus of ethical debates today: the relation of science as a whole, and specifically evolutionary ideas, to ethics and morality. Written toward the end of Huxley's career when he was already famous as a persuasive lecturer and a fascinating expositor of new ideas, these essays demonstrate his rhetorical gifts and talent for explaining the importance of science to a lay audience. "Evolution and Ethics," his last major talk delivered at Oxford in 1893, was written in response to the then fashionable "Social Darwinism" popularized by philosopher Herbert Spencer. Spencer and his followers had been labeling the poor, criminals, and other social undesirables as "unfit" and suggesting that society deal with them as harshly as nature deals with the physically unfit. Huxley found this approach both morally repugnant and a serious misapplication of Darwinian theory to the subject of ethics. Society progresses, Huxley maintained, through individuals who prove themselves to be ethically the best, not physically the most fit. Ethics is designed to curb our antisocial animal instincts and therefore must be detached from natural competition. In "Science and Morals," written some years earlier (1886), Huxley addresses three criticisms: namely, that he and his associates refuse to take seriously anything that (1) cannot be verified by the senses, that (2) is beyond the bounds of physical science, and that (3) cannot be subjected to laboratory experimentation and chemical analysis. To all of these criticisms Huxley replies that he takes very seriously a host of mental phenomena that do not, strictly speaking, fall within these narrow physical limits: the universal law of causation, or the esthetic pleasure of the arts, or the truths of mathematics, for example. He goes on to say that he repudiates the doctrine of Materialism as much as he does that of Spiritualism, and that he coined the term "Agnostic" to apply to his own particular philosophical viewpoint. He concludes with comments on the existence of God and free will, suggesting that science does not necessarily rule out either postulate. Students of ethics, the history of science, and the ongoing debates over evolution will welcome this new edition of two masterful essays by "Darwin's Bulldog."
Download or read book Huxley Prophet of Science written by Houston Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book T H Huxley Scientist Humanist and Educator written by Cyril Bibby and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origins of Agnosticism written by Bernard Lightman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that "God is unknowable." To address this question, he reconstructs the theory of knowledge posited by Thomas Henry Huxley and his network of agnostics. In doing so, Lightman argues that agnosticism was constructed on an epistemological foundation laid by Christian thought. In addition to undermining the continuity in the intellectual history of religious thought, Lightman exposes the religious origins of agnosticism.
Download or read book Thomas Huxley written by Paul White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Thomas Huxley reflects on the historical significance of scientific authority.
Download or read book Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science written by J. Deery and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-07-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can religious belief survive in a scientific era? Aldous Huxley thought so. His early recognition of the profound significance of twentieth-century science and the need for moral and spiritual direction resulted in his espousal of mysticism. An examination of his fiction and nonfiction reveals Huxley's significance for cross-disciplinary debates between religion, science and literature and provides examples of the transmission or refraction of knowledge from one discourse to another.
Download or read book Collected Essays of Thomas Huxley V5 written by Thomas Huxley and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
