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The God argument : the case against religion and for humanism.
Van Pelt Library BL2747.6 .G73 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grayling, A. C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanism, Religious.
- Humanism.
- God.
- Ethics.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- x, 269 pages ; 25 cm
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury, [2013]
- Summary:
- Anthony Grayling offers a definitive examination of the arguments for and against religion and religious belief, and an in-depth exploration of the humanist outlook that recommends itself as the ethics of the genuinely reflective person.
- Contents:
- Clarifications
- Naming and describing a 'god'
- The origins of religion
- An axe to the root
- Knowledge, belief and rationality
- Agnosticism, atheism and proof
- Theistic arguments
- Arguing by design
- Arguing by definition
- Causes, wagers and morals
- Creationism and 'intelligent design'
- The three debates
- Humanism: the ethics of humanity
- Humanism and the good life
- Putting the world to rights
- Shared humanity, human diversity
- The ethical and the moral
- A humanist on love, sex and drugs
- Humanism, death and the ends of life
- Religion revisited
- Humanism and the ethical dimension
- The better alternative.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781620401903
- 1620401908
- 9781408837412
- 1408837412
- 9781408837405
- 1408837404
- 9781620401927
- 1620401924
- OCLC:
- 811597565
- Publisher Number:
- 99953203992
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