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Author Kurtz, Paul, 1925-2012

Title In defense of secular humanism / Paul Kurtz.

Imprint Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1983.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  211.6 K967i 1983    ---  Available
Description viii, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Defending humanism against its fundamentalist critics -- A secular humanist declaration -- The fallacy of the undistributed middle -- Is secular humanism a positive alternative? -- Humanism and the moral revolution -- Humanist manifesto II -- Libertarianism : the philosophy of moral freedom -- The principle of tolerance reaffirmed -- Humanism and the freedom of the individual -- The democratic ethic -- Does humanism have an ethic of responsibility? -- Moral faith versus ethical skepticism -- The case for naturalistic humanism -- Functionalism and the justification of religion -- The crisis in humanism -- Toward a Catholic/humanist dialogue : crisis humanology -- Humanism : the meaning function -- The meaning of life -- Two views of death -- The future of the humanist movement -- Will humanism replace theism? --
Humanism and critical intelligence -- The original sins : gullibility and nincompoopery -- The psychology of belief -- Is parapsychology a science? -- The scientific attitude versus antiscience and pseudoscience -- The new censors of science -- Reason interview.
Subject Humanism.
ISBN 0879752289 (pbk.)
0879752211

 
    
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