Humanism A Very Short Introduction Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 27 January 2011

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.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 11 July 2019

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 28 October 2010

What is agnosticism? Is it just the 'don't know' position on God, or is there more to it than this? Is it a belief, or merely the absence of belief?

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
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• Release Date : 07 April 2022

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

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 27 January 2011

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 22 October 2015

Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives. As humans, we decipher the meaning of newspaper articles, books, legal

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 12 October 2006

Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus, this Very Short

• Publisher : Prometheus Books
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• Release Date : 09 September 2010

A spirited defense of secular humanism against fundamentalist critics.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 26 June 2003

Do you think of atheists as immoral pessimists who live their lives without meaning, purpose, or values? Think again! Atheism: A Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 25 January 2018

Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.