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The Little Book of Humanism

Author : Alice Roberts
Publisher : Piatkus
ISBN 13 : 0349425450
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of Humanism written by Alice Roberts and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER We all want to lead a happy life. Traditionally, when in need of guidance, comfort or inspiration, many people turn to religion. But there has been another way to learn how to live well - the humanist way - and in today's more secular world, it is more relevant than ever. In THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISM, Alice Roberts and Andrew Copson share over two thousand years of humanist wisdom through an uplifting collection of stories, quotes and meditations on how to live an ethical and fulfilling life, grounded in reason and humanity. With universal insights and beautiful original illustrations, THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISM is a perfect introduction to and a timeless anthology of humanist thought from some of history and today's greatest thinkers.

The Good Book

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802717373
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Good Book written by A. C. Grayling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-religious, humanist reference draws on secular literature and philosophy from both Western and Eastern traditions to consider such topics as the origins of the world, how to relate to others, and how to appreciate life.

The God Argument

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408837439
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The God Argument written by A. C. Grayling and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to deal with all the arguments against religion and, equally important, to put forward an alternative - humanism

Meditations for the Humanist

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195168909
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Meditations for the Humanist written by A. C. Grayling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations for the humanist is a wide-ranging magnanimous inquiry into the philosophical and ethical questions that bear most strongly on the human condition. Containing nearly fifty linked commentaries on topics ranging from love, lying, perseverance, revenge, racism, religion, history, loyalty, health, and leisure, Meditations for the humanist does not offer definitive statements but rather prompts to reflection. For those wishing to explore ethical issues outside the framework of organized religious belief, Meditations for the humanist offers an inviting map to the country of philosophical reflection.

In Defense of Secular Humanism

Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615926402
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Secular Humanism written by Paul Kurtz and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited defense of secular humanism against fundamentalist critics.

Reason and Reverence

Author : William R. Murry
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558965188
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (651 download)

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Book Synopsis Reason and Reverence by : William R. Murry

Download or read book Reason and Reverence written by William R. Murry and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199553645
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Humanism: A Very Short Introduction written by Stephen Law and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Humanism

Author : Peter Cave
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861543572
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Humanism written by Peter Cave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with making sense of the world through reason, experience and shared human values. In this thought-provoking introduction, Peter Cave explores the humanist approach to religious belief, ethics and politics, and addresses key criticisms. Revised and updated to confront today’s great crises – the climate emergency and global pandemics – and the future of humanism in the face of rapid technological advancement, this is for anyone wishing to better understand what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

What Are We Doing Here?

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717788
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book What Are We Doing Here? written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”

Reviving the Children of Nimrod

Author : A. Pinn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349733245
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Reviving the Children of Nimrod written by A. Pinn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Anthony Pinn argues in his latest collection, humanism comes in many colors. When more attention is given to issues of race as connected to other forms of oppression, it is easier to see the manner in which humanism has lived and functioned within African American communities. Using the biblical figure Nimrod as symbol, African American Humanist Principles demonstrates African American humanists' intellectual and praxis-related grounding in a history of rebellion against over-determined and oppressive limitations on human doing and being. Pinn maintains that it is this quest for a fuller sense of being - for greater existential and ontological worth - that informs the basic principles of African American humanism. African American Humanist Principles is one of the only books to present the inner workings of humanist principles as the foundation for humanism from the African American perspective - its form and content, nature and meaning.

The Arrogance of Humanism

Author : David W. Ehrenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195028902
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Arrogance of Humanism written by David W. Ehrenfeld and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attacks nothing less than the currently prevailing world philosophy--humanism, which the author feels is exceedingly dangerous in its hidden assumptions.

God, Man, & Well-being

Author : Douglas J. Den Uyl
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820444628
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book God, Man, & Well-being written by Douglas J. Den Uyl and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza's modernist humanism. There is little doubt that Spinoza was one of the principal founders of modernity, but his modernism is often thought to come at the expense of a humanism. Drawing attention to Spinoza's humanism, this book concentrates on politics, ethics, and psychology in order to understand Spinoza's conception of the human being, and why that conception endures into our own time with particular relevance. This introduction to Spinoza's thought proceeds in a reverse order from the usual treatment: rather than beginning with a consideration of Spinoza's metaphysics, the discussion culminates in an exploration of those concepts. In this way, this book is a deeper examination of what Spinoza himself thought, and allows the reader to consider more fully Spinoza's wider philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.

Theism and Humanism

Author : Arthur James Balfour
Publisher : Inkling Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587420054
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Theism and Humanism written by Arthur James Balfour and published by Inkling Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, Christian Century asked C. S. Lewis to name the books that had most influenced his thought. Among those Lewis listed was Theism and Humanism, the published version of Arthur J. Balfour's 1914 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow. Long out of print, the book is now available in this newly typeset and greatly enhanced edition.

Humanism, Reading, & English Literature 1430-1530

Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019921588X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Humanism, Reading, & English Literature 1430-1530 written by Daniel Wakelin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wakelin uses new methods and theories in the history of reading to uncover fresh information about the design, ownership, and marginalia of books in a neglected period in English literary history. This is the first book to identify the origins of the humanist tradition in England in the 15th century.

On Humanism

Author : Richard Norman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134405960
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book On Humanism written by Richard Norman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: humanism /'hju:meniz(e)m/ n. an outlook or system of thought concerned with human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, and Gloria Steinem all declared themselves humanists. What is humanism and why does it matter? Is there any doctrine every humanist must hold? If it rejects religion, what does it offer in its place? Have the twentieth century's crimes against humanity spelled the end for humanism? On Humanism is a timely and powerfully argued philosophical defence of humanism. It is also an impassioned plea that we turn to ourselves, not religion, if we want to answer Socrates' age-old question: what is the best kind of life to lead? Although humanism has much in common with science, Richard Norman shows that it is far from a denial of the more mysterious, fragile side of being human. He deals with big questions such as the environment, Darwinism and 'creation science', euthanasia and abortion, and then argues that it is ultimately through the human capacity for art, literature and the imagination that humanism is a powerful alternative to religious belief. Drawing on a varied range of examples from Aristotle to Primo Levi and the novels of Virginia Woolf and Graham Swift, On Humanism is a lucid and much needed reflection on this much talked about but little understood phenomenon.

Humanism and Democratic Criticism

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231122641
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Humanism and Democratic Criticism written by Edward W. Said and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: brought on by advances in technological communication, intellectual specialization, and cultural sensitivity -- has eroded the former primacy of the humanities, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism -- one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten --

Humanism

Author : Jim Herrick
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615920943
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Humanism written by Jim Herrick and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanism is a philosophy that emphasizes the value of human life in all its creative potential within a secular context. Humanism is skeptical of religious beliefs and relies on science as the basis for understanding the universe. Although humanism has become most fully developed in the West, its origins lie throughout the world, and this perspective is shared by people from many different cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds.In this succinct, informative, and enlightening introduction to humanism, Jim Herrick, a leading humanist advocate in Great Britain, provides a very readable account of the guiding principles, history, and practice of humanism in today''s world. Herrick surveys the tradition of humanism as it developed over many centuries, its skepticism toward belief in God and an afterlife, humanist values and arguments for morality outside of a religious framework, its attitude of tolerance toward different lifestyles and belief systems, its endorsement of democratic political principles, its strong ties to science, its evaluation of the arts as an exploration of human potential, and its concern for environmental preservation and the long-term sustainability of the earth.In conclusion, Herrick briefly describes the various humanist organizations throughout the world; particular causes championed by humanists (women''s rights, racial and sexual equality, freedom of speech and information, and education, among others); and the future of humanism.