Good without God : what a billion nonreligious people do believe / Greg M. Epstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Greg M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Virtue.

Secular humanism.

Physical Description:

xviii, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : William Morrow, [2009]

Summary:

Author Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard, offers a world view for nonbelievers that dispenses with the hostility and intolerance of religion prevalent in national bestsellers like God is Not Great and The God Delusion. Epstein's Good Without God provides a constructive, challenging response to these manifestos by getting to the heart of Humanism and its positive belief in tolerance, community, morality, and good without having to rely on the guidance of a higher being.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Can we be good without God?

A brief history of goodness without God, or a short campus tour of the university of humanism

Why be good without a God? : purpose and The plague

Good without God : a how-to guide to the ethics of humanism

Pluralism : can you be good with God?

Good without God in community : the heart of humanism

Postscript: Humanism and its aspirations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780061670114

0061670111

OCLC:

310399059