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A spirited defense of secular humanism against fundamentalist critics.
Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1615926402
A spirited defense of secular humanism against fundamentalist critics.
Author : Philip Kitcher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300210345
Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher constructs an original and persuasive secular perspective, one that answers human needs, recognizes the objectivity of values, and provides for the universal desire for meaningfulness. Kitcher thoughtfully and sensitively considers how secularism can respond to the worries and challenges that all people confront, including the issue of mortality. He investigates how secular lives compare with those of people who adopt religious doctrines as literal truth, as well as those who embrace less literalistic versions of religion. Whereas religious belief has been important in past times, Kitcher concludes that evolution away from religion is now essential. He envisions the successors to religious life, when the senses of identity and community traditionally fostered by religion will instead draw on a broader range of cultural items—those provided by poets, filmmakers, musicians, artists, scientists, and others. With clarity and deep insight, Kitcher reveals the power of secular humanism to encourage fulfilling human lives built on ethical truth.
Author : Robert E. Webber
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199553645
Summary: Philosopher Stephen Law explains why humanism--though a rejection of religion--nevertheless provides both a moral basis and a meaning for our lives.-publisher description.
Author : Eric Matthews
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Humanism
ISBN : 9780951821909
Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Humanism
ISBN : 9780879751494
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Author : David Wayne Jones
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433669692
An introductory text explaining the nature, relevancy, coherency, and structure of the moral law as revealed throughout the Bible, with discussion of the Ten Commandments as a moral rubric and a subsequent application of each commandment to Christian living.
Author : Ernest J. Zarra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 147585854X
When the Secular Becomes Sacred: Religious Secular Humanism and its Effects Upon America’s Public Learning Institutionsis an analysis of American K-16 public learning institutions from a unique perspective. Secular teachings, such as social-emotional learning, and sexual and identity philosophies, are behind movements to capture the minds and hearts of America’s students. Contemporary learning institutions resemble places of worship in several ways. This book will explain how this is the case. From educational philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes tactical intersections between secular humanism and religion. In today’s secular culture there is strong evidence to support the notion that worship of the self, the individual, has usurped the historically sacred place reserved for a transcendent deity. The fact is that this worship of the individual is certainly more fashionable and attractive than traditional orthodoxy or evangelical theology, in a today’s society. Bolstering this self-worship are mandated programs, such as those found in states’ controversial History-Social Science Frameworks, English-Language Arts Frameworks, and new sex education programs. The intention of this book is to provide the reader a realistic look into the effects of religious humanism upon America’s schools and students. Readers will be challenged with the notion that separation of church and state is being ignored for the political advantage of some. Furthermore, the reader will be presented with the argument that self-worship has become more attractive than traditional Judeo-Christian religious teachings, leading to the individual becoming both the worshipper and the object of such self-worship.
Author : Herbert London
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1458763552
In this timely and wide-ranging book, one of America's leading public intellectuals argues that the rise of radical secularism in the United States is a flaccid response to the challenge presented by the fanaticism of radical Islam. In the so-call...
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674986911
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.