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Humanist Anthology From Confucius to Attenborough

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ISBN-10: 0879759577

ISBN-13: 9780879759575

Edition: Revised 

Authors: Margaret Knight, James Herrick, Edward Blishen

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List price: $33.99
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 8/1/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Foreword
Good Behaviour
The Art of Government
Funeral Oration of Pericles
Death
Pleasure
Superstition
Friendship
Natural Benevolence
The Brotherhood of Man
On Death
On Anger
Thoughts on Illness and Death
Euthanasia
God in Man
Contentment
Disarming the Critic
Do Good Voluntarily
The Claim of Man on Man
Citizen of a Democracy
Euthanasia
Disinterested Kindness
Man a Social Animal
Open-mindedness
Death
Anti-intellectualism
On Reason and Religion
Miracles and Witchcraft
Of Mortal Contentment
Of the Oneness of the Universe
The Nature Of God
Virtue, Freedom and Servitude
The Abbe's Apology to His Flock
The Credibility of the Gospels
The Incarnation
Envoi
Toleration
Christianized Rome
The Prime Architect
Councils
The Argument from Design
Damnation
Creating a Fantasy
Theology
Divine Justice
Universal Consent
Atheism and Morality
The Death of Hume
Christians and Pagans
Revealed Religion and Morality
The Future Progress of the Human Mind
Ethical Hedonism
Ethical Hedonism in Practice
Tampering with Veracity
Incredible Beliefs
Liberty
Early Indoctrination
Religion and Ignorance
Paganism and Christianity
Religious and Legal Sanctions
Pantheism
Christianity in Action
Pictures of Priests
Positive Ethics
The Essence of Religion Considered Generally
The Utility of Religion
Omnipotence and Evil
The Social Instincts
The Growth Of Scepticism
Pulpit Oratory
Judicious Haziness
Truth-telling
Alienation from Christianity
The Historical Jesus
Agnosticism
'Doublethink'
Religious Persecution
Science and Myth
Freedom of Thought
Humanity's Gain from Unbelief
God and Evil
A Humanist Credo
Thoughts of God
Religion
Heaven and Hell
Prayer
Complete Death
Life and Death
The Defeat of Death
Rome's Attitude towards Christianity
Religious Persecution
Humanist Parents and their Children
Medical Materialism
God Is a Supposition
Moral Behaviour
God-making
Religion and Illusion
Education for Reality
Mystical Experience
Science versus Dogma
Freedom of Speech
Greek Ethics
'Doublethink'
Wishful Thinking and Anthropomorphism
Man a Social Animal
Christianity and Social Ethics
Religion and Fear
The Happy Man
The Faith of a Humanist
Can 'Good' be Defined?
Good as Means and Good as End
What Things Are Good as Ends?
'A Deeply Religious Man'
The Meaning of 'Religious'
Science and Ethics
Humanism versus Authoritarianism
Humanist Belief
'Interimsethik'
A Humanist's Faith
Radical Democracy
The Spirit of Enquiry
Faith and Science
Religion and the Social Sciences
The Atheistic Way of Life
The Snare of Definitions
Balance
The Open Mind
Religion and Moral Training
Morals without Religion
Existentialism and Humanism
In Possession of Self
The Foundation of Morality
Views of a Rationalist Scientist
Can Science Make us Good?
The Presumption of Atheism
A Moral Revolution
Viruses of the Mind
The Itch for the Absolute
Human Responsibilities
Appendix
Acknowledgements