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Humanism
Beliefs and Practices
Ed. Jeaneane Fowler
Brighton 1999
Waga: 0,7 kg
Stron: 362
Język: angielski
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Contents
Poreword by Sir Hermann Bondi viii
foreword by Paul Kurtz x
Preface and Acknowledgements xii
Introduction l
l What is Humanism? 5
The complexities of the term "Humanism" 6
A working definition 9
The history of the humanist tradition 12
The Renaissance 13
The Enlightenment 16
Humanism today 19
The modern Humanist movement 25
Freethinkers 25
Ethical societies 26
The British and American Humanist associations 28
Literature 29
Humanist organizations 30
Is Humanism a religion? 31
2 The Human Being 34
The Christian view of the human being 35
The value of life 37
Death 38
The existential life-condition 39
Humanity 41
Human potential 44
The nature of the seif 45
Spirituality 50
Individuality 55
3 The Case against Religion: The Rejection of God 61
Atheism 66
Agnosticism 68
Pascal's Wager 69
Theism and deism 69
The Bible 73
God 79
Theodicy 84
Free will 89
Can it be proved that God exists? 92
Cosmological arguments for the existence of God 94
The arguments to design 96
The ontological argument 100
Rejection of an afterlife 100
4 The Case against Religion: The Rejection of Faith
What is religion?
Why do humans need religion?
Adverse effects of religion
Belief
Faith
The Christian f aith
The problematic gospels
The Jesus legend
Paul of Tarsus
The charismatic phenomenon
5 Society
Modern society
Freedom
Equality
Is the concept of equality rational?
Equality of the sexes
Education
The Humanist society
The "Good Life"- the Humanist vision for all individuals
6 Morality
Ethics
The nature of morality
Good 191
Values 194
Morality äs an evolutionary process 197
Religious morality 199
A universal ethic? 207
Humanist ethics 213
Moral autonomy 215
7. Ratiortalism and Reason 219
Intelligent living 219
Rationalism and reason 224
Rationalism 224
Reason 227
Reason versus faith 2
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