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Book Synopsis Great Freethinkers by : James C. Sanford
Download or read book Great Freethinkers written by James C. Sanford and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grouped into categories that range from religion and psychology to sex and politics, the 1,000 quotations by the world's great iconoclasts and skeptics collected in this volume challenge conventional notions of god, country, science, art, society, and culture. In eclectic harmony, the words of cynics Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, and H. L. Mencken counterbalance those of idealists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, and Jane Addams. Utopians Emma Goldman and Che Guevara contrast with anti-utopians George Orwell and Albert Camus. Individualists contend with egalitarians as do deists with atheists in these thought-provoking quotations that have been carefully selected from a broad range of writings and chosen on the basis of their wit, eloquence, novelty, and incisiveness.
Book Synopsis Raising Freethinkers by : Dale McGowan
Download or read book Raising Freethinkers written by Dale McGowan and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and their children. Covers every important topic nonreligious parents need to know to help their children with their own moral and intellectual development.
Download or read book Freethinkers written by Susan Jacoby and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2005-01-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times) At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with liberal and tolerant religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for reforms opposed by reactionary forces in the past and today. Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrow—as well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, "the Great Agnostic"—Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanists. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system.
Book Synopsis The Great Agnostic by : Susan Jacoby
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 Freethinkers written by Susan Jacoby and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Book Synopsis Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers by : Charles Bradlaugh
Download or read book Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers written by Charles Bradlaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of various freethinkers throughout history, including Thomas Hobbes, Shelley, Hume, Voltaire, Paine, Epicurus, Spinoza, Blount, Toland, and many more.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by : J. M. Wheeler
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations written by J. M. Wheeler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]elected deputy to Parliament for Brescia. Died Verona, 16 July, 1878. Alembert (Jean le Rond d'), mathematician and philosopher, b. at Paris 16 Nov. 1717. He was an illegitimate son of Canon Destouches and Mme. Tencin, and received his Christian name from a church near which he was exposed as a foundling. He afterwards resided for forty years with his nurse, nor would he leave her for the most tempting offers. In 1741, he was admitted a member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1749, he obtained the prize medal from the Academy of Berlin, for a discourse on the theory of winds. In 1749, he solved[...]".
Book Synopsis Half-hours with Freethinkers by : John Watts
Download or read book Half-hours with Freethinkers written by John Watts and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Agnostic by : Susan Jacoby
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 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration” (The Boston Globe). During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as “the Great Agnostic.” The nation’s most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a power unmatched since America’s revolutionary generation. When he died in 1899, even his religious enemies acknowledged that he might have aspired to the US presidency had he been willing to mask his opposition to religion. To the question that retains its controversial power today—was the United States founded as a Christian nation?—Ingersoll answered an emphatic no. In this provocative biography, Susan Jacoby, author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition extending from Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine to the current generation of “new atheists.” Jacoby illuminates the ways in which America’s often-denigrated and forgotten secular history encompasses issues, ranging from women’s rights to evolution, as potent and divisive today as they were in Ingersoll’s time. Ingersoll emerges in this portrait as an indispensable public figure who devoted his life to that greatest secular idea of all—liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike. “Jacoby’s goal of elucidating the life and work of Robert Ingersoll is admirably accomplished. She offers a host of well-chosen quotations from his work, and she deftly displays the effect he had on others. For instance: after a young Eugene V. Debs heard Ingersoll talk, Debs accompanied him to the train station and then—just so he could continue the conversation—bought himself a ticket and rode all the way from Terre Haute to Cincinnati. Readers today may well find Ingersoll’s company equally entrancing.” —Jennifer Michael Hecht, The New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers by : Joseph McCabe
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers written by Joseph McCabe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive deep into history with Joseph McCabe's "A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers." This comprehensive collection from the 1940s offers insights into the lives of prominent freethinkers throughout history. McCabe's meticulous research and detailed entries make this a valuable resource for history enthusiasts and scholars alike.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by : J. M. Wheeler
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations written by J. M. Wheeler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The work throughout has been a labor of love.....' 'A Classic' A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. Wheeler. John Stuart Mill in his "Autobiography" declares with truth that "the world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue are complete sceptics in religion." Many of these, as Mill points out, refrain from various motives from speaking out. The work I have undertaken will, I trust, do something to show how many of the world's worthiest men and women have been Freethinkers. My Dictionary does not pretend to be a complete list of those who have rendered services to Freethought. To form such a compilation would rather be the task of an international society than of an individual. Moreover details concerning many worthy workers are now inaccessible. Freethought boasts its noble army of martyrs of whom the world was not worthy, and who paid the penalty of their freedom in prison or at the stake. Some of the names of these are only known by the vituperation of their adversaries. I have done my best to preserve some trustworthy record of as many as possible. The only complete work with a similar design of which I have any knowledge, is the Dictionnaire des Athées anciens et modernes, by Sylvain Maréchal with its supplements by Jerome de Lalande the Astronomer, An. VIII. (1800)-1805. That work, which is now extremely rare, gave scarcely any biographical details, and unfortunately followed previous orthodox atheographers, such as Buddeus, Reimmann, Hardouin, Garasse, Mersenne, in classing as Atheists those to whom the title was inapplicable. I have taken no names from these sources without examining the evidence. A work was issued by Richard Carlile in 1826, entitled A Dictionary of Modern Anti-Superstionists; or, "an account, arranged alphabetically, of those who, whether called Atheists, Sceptics, Latitudinarians, Religious Reformers, or etc., have during the last ten centuries contributed towards the diminution of superstition. Compiled by a searcher after Truth." The compiler, as I have reason to know, was Julian Hibbert, who brought to his task adequate scholarship and leisure. It was, however, conceived on too extensive a scale, and in 128 pages, all that was issued, it only reached to the name of Annet. Julian Hibbert also compiled chronological tables of English Freethinkers, which were published in the Reasoner for 1855.
Book Synopsis Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers by : John Watts
Download or read book Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers written by John Watts and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful work contains an abstract of the lives and philosophies of some of those personalities who have stood highest in the ranks of free thinkers in all nations and all ages. The writer has put forward ample factual information in a simple way through this work. A must-read for students of literature, philosophy, and history. Content includes: Thomas Hobbes Lord Bolingbroke Condorcet Spinoza Anthony Collins Des Cartes M. De Voltaire John Toland Compte De Volney Charles Blount Percy Bysshe Shelley Claud Arian Helvetius Frances W. D'arusmont Epicurus Zeno, the Stoic Matthew Tindal David Hume Dr. Thomas Burnet Thomas Paine Baptiste De Mirabaud Baron D'holbach Robert Taylor Joseph Barker
Book Synopsis Biographies of Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers by : Charles Bradlaugh
Download or read book Biographies of Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers written by Charles Bradlaugh and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis American Freethinker by : Kirsten Fischer
Download or read book American Freethinker written by Kirsten Fischer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer tells the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech. When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required no religious foundation. A better source for morality, he said, could be found in the natural world: the interconnected web of life that inspired compassion for all living things. Religions that deny these universal connections should be discarded, he insisted. For this, his Christian critics denounced him as a heretic whose ideas endangered the country. Although his publications and speaking tours made him one of the most infamous American freethinkers in his day, Elihu Palmer has been largely forgotten. No cache of his personal papers exists and his book has been long out of print. Yet his story merits telling, Kirsten Fischer argues, and not only for the dramatic account of a man who lost his eyesight before the age of thirty and still became a book author, newspaper editor, and itinerant public speaker. Even more intriguing is his encounter with a cosmology that envisioned the universe as interconnected, alive with sensation, and everywhere infused with a divine life force. Palmer's "heresy" tested the nation's recently proclaimed commitment to freedom of religion and of speech. In this he was not alone. Fischer reveals that Palmer engaged in person and in print with an array of freethinkers—some famous, others now obscure. The flourishing of diverse religious opinion struck some of his contemporaries as foundational to a healthy democracy while others believed that only a strong Christian faith could support democratic self-governance. This first comprehensive biography of Palmer draws on extensive archival research to tell the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the new nation's protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech—a debate that continues to resonate today.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by : Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations written by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: ...es (Baltimore, 1871) and Antiquity of Christianity (New York, 1874).Albini (Giuseppe). Italian physiologist, b. Milan. In 1845 he studied medicine in Paris. He has written on embryology and many other physiological subjects.Alchindus. Yakub ibn Is'hak ibn Subbah (Abú Yúsuf) called Al Kindi, Arab physician and philosopher, the great grandson of one of the companions of Muhammad, the prophet, flourished from 814 to about 840. He was a rationalist in religion, and for his scientific studies he was set down as a magician.Alciati (Giovanni Paolo). A Milanese of noble family. At first a Romanist, he resigned that faith for Calvinism, but gradually advanced to Anti-trinitarianism, which he defends in two letters to Gregorio Pauli, dated Austerlitz 1564 and 1565. Beza says that Alciati deserted the Christian faith and became a Muhammadan, but Bayle takes pains to disprove this. Died at Dantzic about 1570.Aleardi (Gaetano). Italian poet, known as Aleardo Aleardi, b. Verona...
Book Synopsis Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by : Charles Bradlaugh
Download or read book Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." written by Charles Bradlaugh and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Download or read book Freedom written by Leonard Roy Frank and published by Random House Reference Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insights from politicians, entertainers, philosophers, CEOs, and others, "Freedom" addresses topics such as class, race, war, trust, and the meaning of freedom post-September 11th. "Freedom" will be published in time for Independence Day.
