To Set Prometheus Free: Essays on Religion, Reason and Humanity - Couverture rigide

Grayling, A C

 
9781840029628: To Set Prometheus Free: Essays on Religion, Reason and Humanity
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1840029625 ISBN 13 : 9781840029628
Editeur : Oberon Books Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

In 2007 A.C. Grayling published Against All Gods: Six Polemics Against Religion and an Essay on Kindness, which has sold nearly 10,000 copies in hardback. Professor Grayling deliberately kept the essays in that book short and to the point as they were polemical contributions to the debate. Grayling stands by what he wrote in that book and still encourages blunt speaking and writing when it comes to the debate about the need for more secularism in society, because quieter methods have failed to abate the negative influence of religion. However, whilst the brevity of the essays served its purpose many correspondents have asked for a fuller statement of the case against religion, which Professor Grayling provides in To Set Prometheus Free with the essays collected here. Contents: Preface-Where are we in history? -Why I do not subscribe to religious beliefs-Why Bertrand Russell was not religious-Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism-The War of the Books-The Good Life

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In 2007 A.C. Grayling published Against All Gods: Six Polemics Against Religion and an Essay on Kindness, which has sold nearly 10,000 copies in hardback. Professor Grayling deliberately kept the essays in that book short and to the point as they were polemical contributions to the debate. Grayling stands by what he wrote in that book and still encourages blunt speaking and writing when it comes to the debate about the need for more secularism in society, because quieter methods have failed to abate the negative influence of religion. However, whilst the brevity of the essays served its purpose many correspondents have asked for a fuller statement of the case against religion, which Professor Grayling provides in To Set Prometheus Free with the essays collected here. Contents: Preface-Where are we in history? -Why I do not subscribe to religious beliefs-Why Bertrand Russell was not religious-Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism-The War of the Books-The Good Life

Biographie de l'auteur

A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a writer and broadcaster and the author of many books on philosophy.

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Éditeur
Oberon Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1840029625
ISBN 13 
9781840029628
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
112
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