Agnostic Reader

Name: Agnostic Reader
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ISBN: 9781591025337

ISBN-10: 1591025338

ISBN-13: 9781591025337

Edition: 2007

Authors: S. T. Joshi

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Agnosticism -- the philosophical argument that it is impossible to know whether God exists or not -- has been the point of view of many distinguished thinkers from the 19th century to the present. In contrast to atheism, which asserts that God does not exist, agnosticism holds that reason and the best scientific evidence do not allow one to reach a decisive conclusion regarding the existence of God. This reader prints selections of some of the most profound and pioneering discussions of agnosticism over the past two centuries. Beginning with early formulations of the agnostic perspective by Thomas Henry Huxley (who coined the term), Bertrand Russell, and others, editor S. T. Joshi shows how…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 8/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 386
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Introduction



Some Overviews



Agnosticism and Christianity (1889)




Agnosticism (1889)




Why I Am an Agnostic (1929)




What Is an Agnostic? (1953)




The Critical Study of Religion



The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1835)




Primitive Culture (1871)




About the Holy Bible (1894)




Christianity and Morals (1939)




Agnosticism and Science



History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874)




The Pre-Darwinite and Post-Darwinite World (1877)




Science and Religion (1941)




In the Beginning...(1981)




The Deficiencies of Religion



The Christian System (1851)




The Ethics of Religion (1877)




Christianity and Civilization (1914)




Christianity in Decline



Rationalism in Europe (1865)




Are We Christians? (1873)




The Twilight of Christianity (1929)




God in the Modern World (1929)




The Agnostic Way of Life



Secularism the True Philosophy of Life (1879)




On Happiness (1927)




The Ethics of Humanism (1949)



Further Reading