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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kurtz, Paul, 1925- In defense of secular humanism. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1983 (OCoLC)707191659 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Kurtz |
| ISBN: | 0879752211 9780879752217 0879752289 9780879752286 |
| OCLC Number: | 10221152 |
| Description: | viii, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Other Titles: | Secular humanism. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Kurtz. |
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