Paul Kurtz

Multi-Secularism (eBook, ePUB)

A New Agenda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The contemporary world is witness to an intense controversy about secularism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351504249
• Artikelnr.: 48866576

Autorenporträt

Paul Kurtz

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The Battle for Secularism
Section 1 - Basic Categories
I: The Secular Humanist Prospect in Historical Perspective
II: Naturalism and the Future
III: Naturalism, Secularism, and Humanism
Section 2 - Secular Morality
IV: The Ethics of Secularism
V: Morality Is Natural
VI: Affirming Life
VII: The Pursuit of Excellence: Raising the Level of Taste and Appreciation
VIII: A Good Will
IX: Neo-Humanism
X: A Modified Naturalistic Ethical Theory
Section 3 - Secularism and Religion
XI: Skeptical Inquiry and Religion
XII: Why I Am a Skeptic about Religious Claims
XIII: Religion in Conflict: Are "Evangelical Atheists" Too Outspoken?
XIV: The Passion as a Political Weapon: Anti-Semitism and the Gospels
XV: Creating Secular and Humanist Alternatives to Religion
Section 4 - Humanism and Politics
XVI: Is America a Post-Democratic Society?
XVII: The New American Plutocracy
XVIII: Can We Bridge the Great Cultural Divide?
Section 5 - The Rise of India and China
XIX: The Industrial-Technological Revolution
XX: The New China and the Old
Section 6 - Personal Reflections
XXI: The Convictions of a Secular Humanist
XXII: The Transformation of Universities
XXIII: Final Reflections: Perhaps Facing Death
Index