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- Publication Name
- The Agnostic Reader
- Title
- The Agnostic Reader
- Contributor
- S. T. Joshi (Edited by)
- ISBN-10
- 1591025338
- EAN
- 9781591025337
- ISBN
- 9781591025337
- Genre
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Release Date
- 01/08/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 454g
- Series
- Great Minds Series
- UPC
- 9781591025337
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Agnostic Reader
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Topic
- Alternative Belief Systems, Popular Philosophy
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Number of Pages
- 386 Pages
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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 agnosticism received a strong boost in the later 19th century from the so-called higher criticism of the Bible. Selections from Edward Burnett Tylor, Arthur Schopenhauer, Robert G. Ingersoll, and Edward Westermarck made a strong case that religion was a natural product of primitive development and that the Bible was the product of an age of scientific ignorance and superstition. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Christianity in Europe was in a state of decline among the intellectual classes. The writings of W. E. H. Leckey, Leslie Stephen, and Walter Lippmann show that leading commentators were openly pondering a European society in which Christianity was a thing of the past. The increasing success of the natural sciences during this same time period supported the agnostic viewpoint by accounting for phenomena on a natural, rather than a supernatural, basis. Selections from John William Draper, Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, and others demonstrate the scientific respectability of agnosticism. Finally, selections from such thinkers as Frederic Harrison, H. L. Mencken, and Corliss Lamont emphasise how living with agnosticism can be intellectually and morally satisfying, even exhilarating. Overall, The Agnostic Reader shows how agnosticism can provide a framework for living with courage and dignity.
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Prometheus Books
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9781591025337
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Book Title
The Agnostic Reader
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Alternative Belief Systems, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2007
Number of Pages
386 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
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Great Minds Series
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S. T. Joshi
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United States
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