Author: Paul Kurtz
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: humanism, secular
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 2007-06-27
List price: $9.98
ISBN-10: 1591024994
ISBN-13: 9781591024996
Are there any ethical values and principles that non-religious individuals can live by? In a time when many have forsaken otherworldly religions, what does human life mean? What is its significance? Secular humanism attempts to answer these questions in a way that resonates with human aspirations and the findings of science. In this succinct, engaging overview of the secular humanist perspective, philosopher Paul Kurtz describes the many ways in which secular humanism’s scientific, philosophical, and ethical outlook has exerted a profound influence on civilisation from the ancient world
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: secular, ethics, humanist, meditations
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-12-18
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195168909
ISBN-13: 9780195168907
Magnanimity is in short supply, writes A. C. Grayling is this wonderfully incisive book, "but it is the main ingredient in everything that makes the world a better place" And indeed Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age is itself a generous, insightful, wide-ranging, magnanimous inquiry into the philosophical and ethical questions that bear most strongly on the human condition. Containing nearly fifty linked commentaries on topics ranging from love, lying, perseverance, revenge, racism, religion, history, loyalty, health, and leisure, Meditations for the Humanist does not of
Author: Michael Alexander
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: market, bear, secular, investing
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2005-01-19
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 059534206X
ISBN-13: 9780595342068
How to Invest in a Secular Bear Market is a sequel to Alexander’s 2000 book Stock Cycles, which forecast the start of a secular bear market, a lengthy period of poor investment performance. Alexander describes the structure of a secular bear market and explains why they happen. He then shows what an investor can expect from this secular bear market over the next 5-10 years and provides some investing strategies. "This is a brilliant and scholarly study that looks to create longer term capital gains in retirement accounts based on cycle investing. What I found particularly fascinating was
Author: J. Moreland
Publisher: Baker Academic
Keywords: christianity, defense, city, secular, scaling
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1987-02-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0801062225
ISBN-13: 9780801062223
Here are up-to-date arguments for God’s existence and for Jesus’ deity and resurrection, answers to objections to Christian theism, and discussions of four key issues.
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: secular, life, atheism, meditations, gods, philosophers
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-08-08
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0195173074
ISBN-13: 9780195173079
Atheists are frequently demonized as arrogant intellectuals, antagonistic to religion, devoid of moral sentiments, advocates of an "anything goes" lifestyle. Now, in this revealing volume, nineteen leading philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism, shattering these common stereotypes as they reveal how they came to turn away from religious belief. These highly engaging personal essays capture the marvelous diversity to be found among atheists, providing a portrait that will surprise most readers. Many of the authors, for example, express great affection for particular religi
Author: Andrew Kernohan
Publisher: Published byt the Author
Keywords: meaning, path, secular, godless, guide
Published: 2008-01-25
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0978035003
ISBN-13: 9780978035006
This book aims to apply recent thinking in philosophy to the age-old problem of the meaning of life, and to do so in a way that is useful to atheists, agnostics, and humanists. The book reorients the search for meaning away from a search for purpose and toward a search for what truly matters, and criticizes our society’s prevailing theory of value, the preference satisfaction theory of the economists. It next argues that emotions are our best guides to what matters in life, and shows how emotional judgments about what matters can be true. Finally it discusses how a meaningful life can
Author: Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: secular, engagements, theological, dispatches
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1994-05-20
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822317168
ISBN-13: 9780822317166
God knows it is hard to make God boring, Stanley Hauerwas writes, but American Christians, aided and abetted by theologians, have accomplished that feat. Whatever might be said about Hauerwasand there is plentyno one has ever accused him of being boring, and in this book he delivers another jolt to all those who think that Christian theology is a matter of indifference to our secular society.At once Christian theology and social criticism, this book aims to show that the two cannot be separated. In this spirit, Hauerwas mounts a forceful attack on current sentimentalities about the significa
