An Archaeology Of Disbelief
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An Archaeology Of Disbelief
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Author : Edward Jayne
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-12-22
An Archaeology Of Disbelief written by Edward Jayne and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-22 with Philosophy categories.
An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety of scientific fields. He also revisited many pre-Socratic assumptions by proposing that existence consists of mass in motion without temporal or spatial boundaries. In many ways his analysis anticipated Newton’s concept of gravity, Darwin’s concept of evolution, and Einstein’s concept of relativity. Aristotle’s follower Strato invented scientific experimentation. He also inspired the pursuit of science and advocated the rejection of all beliefs unconfirmed by science. Carneades in turn distorted Aristotelian logic to ridicule the god concept, and Lucretius proposed a grand secular cosmology in his epic De Rerum Natura. In the two dialogues, Academica and De Natura Deorum, Cicero provided a useful retrospective assessment of this entire movement. The Roman Empire and advent of Christianity effectively terminated Greek philosophy except for Platonism reinvented as stoicism. Widespread destruction of libraries eliminated most early secular texts, and the Inquisition played a major role in preventing secular inquiry. Aquinas later justified Aristotle in light of Christian doctrine, and secularism’s revival was postponed until the seventeenth century’s paradoxical reaction against his interpretation of Aristotle. Today it nevertheless remains possible to trace western civilization’s remarkable secular achievement to its initial breakthrough in ancient Greece. The purpose of this book is accordingly to trace the origin and development of its secular thought through close examination of texts that still exist today in light of Aristotle’s writings.
An Archaeology Of Disbelief
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Author : Edward Jayne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-22
An Archaeology Of Disbelief written by Edward Jayne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-22 with History categories.
An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the classical origin of secular philosophy in ancient Greece based on a close examination of its few relevant texts still available today. More than a dozen pre-Socratic philosophers are examined as well Aristotle and such later figures as Strato, Carneades, Lucretius, and Cicero.
The Varieties Of Nonreligious Experience
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Author : Jerome P. Baggett
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-07-09
The Varieties Of Nonreligious Experience written by Jerome P. Baggett and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-09 with Religion categories.
A fascinating exploration of the breadth of social, emotional, and spiritual experiences of atheists in America Self-identified atheists make up roughly 5 percent of the American religious landscape, comprising a larger population than Jehovah’s Witnesses, Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus combined. In spite of their relatively significant presence in society, atheists are one of the most stigmatized groups in the United States, frequently portrayed as immoral, unhappy, or even outright angry. Yet we know very little about what their lives are actually like as they live among their largely religious, and sometimes hostile, fellow citizens. In this book, Jerome P. Baggett listens to what atheists have to say about their own lives and viewpoints. Drawing on questionnaires and interviews with more than five hundred American atheists scattered across the country, The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience uncovers what they think about morality, what gives meaning to their lives, how they feel about religious people, and what they think and know about religion itself. Though the wider public routinely understands atheists in negative terms, as people who do not believe in God, Baggett pushes readers to view them in a different light. Rather than simply rejecting God and religion, atheists actually embrace something much more substantive—lives marked by greater integrity, open-mindedness, and progress. Beyond just talking about or to American atheists, the time is overdue to let them speak for themselves. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in joining the conversation.
It Feels Like Disbelief
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Author : Paul Hetherington
language : en
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Release Date : 2007
It Feels Like Disbelief written by Paul Hetherington and has been published by Salt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Poetry categories.
It Feels Like Disbelief is a remarkable book. Its poems are contemporary and engaged, sometimes edgy, yet they exhibit a skilled formal control and a marvellous capacity to make music out of language. There is an emotional strength at the core of these poems which allows the reader to accompany the poet on a series of shared and satisfying personal journeys. The poems are also rewardingly wide-ranging, dealing with subjects as various as human intimacy, sensuality and love, history, refugees, fishing, books, photography, reading, desire, bushwalking, gardening, children, opera, archaeology and the Iraq war.Throughout there is an elegiac sense of the imminence of loss; of how time and history undo the very things that we know and take for granted. Many poems reveal often troubling or mysterious domestic interiors, along with intense moments of recognition and recollection. The book contains a number of longer poems as well as numerous lyrics, including a rewarding series of sonnets. These are all poems that amply repay a first reading and they will further reward the reader who becomes familiar with their subtleties and intricacies. Hetherington returns to various themes and motifs throughout the volume. Music is one example, which first figures in the phrase 'elegant singing lines of silver death', soon becomes 'Bach's singing tune' and then a scale that 'rippled up and down the house'. By the end of the volume music is 'the call / of being that is usually unheard'. In such ways, these poems explore and recast human perceptions, while also conjuring memorable images and phrases. This poetry collection is extraordinary in the way that it combines figurative language with plain-speaking. When the poet says that a wasp represents 'some trouble or beauty / transformed', he might have been speaking for the transformative power of his collection as a whole. Paul Hetherington is the award-winning author of seven previous books of poetry and this new collection confirms his position as one of the most gifted poets of his generation.
Archaeology Is A Brand
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Author : Cornelius Holtorf
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07
Archaeology Is A Brand written by Cornelius Holtorf and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07 with Social Science categories.
Possessors of a widely recognized, positively valued and well-underpinned brand, archaeologists need to take more seriously the appeal of their work and its relationship to society and popular culture.
Essay On The Archaeology Of Our Popular Phrases
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Author : John Bellenden Ker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1840
Essay On The Archaeology Of Our Popular Phrases written by John Bellenden Ker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1840 with English language categories.
An Introduction To The Study Of Southwestern Archaeology
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Author : Alfred Vincent Kidder
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
An Introduction To The Study Of Southwestern Archaeology written by Alfred Vincent Kidder and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Alfred Vincent Kidder's Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology was the first regional synthesis and summary of Peublo archaeology. It is a guide to historic and prehistoric sites of the Southwest as well as a preliminary account of Kidder's exemplary excavation at Pecos.
The Archaeology Of Death And Burial
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Author : Mike Parker Pearson
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2021-09-03
The Archaeology Of Death And Burial written by Mike Parker Pearson and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-03 with Social Science categories.
The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric people to death and the afterlife, but also about their way of life, their social organisation and their view of the world. This ambitious book reviews the latest research in this huge and important field, and describes the sometimes controversial interpretations that have led to rapid advances in our understanding of life and death in the distant past. A unique overview and synthesis of one of the most revealing fields of research into the past, it covers archaeology's most breathtaking discoveries, from Tutankhamen to the Ice Man, and will find a keen market among archaeologists, historians and others who have a professional interest in, or general curiosity about, death and burial.
An Archaeological Evolution
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Author : Stanley South
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-10-21
An Archaeological Evolution written by Stanley South and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-21 with Social Science categories.
This fascinating and revealing book charts the life of one of the greatest living archaeologists. Stanley South has been a leading figure not only in historical but also in anthropological archaeology. His personal perseverance in field of archaeology has also been an inspiration to new and upcoming archaeologists and anthropologists. This is his memoir, played out among some of the most important debates and movements in archaeology since the 1960s.
Song Of The Depths
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Author : Bonnie L. Price
language : en
Publisher: Bonnie L. Price
Release Date : 2020-09-21
Song Of The Depths written by Bonnie L. Price and has been published by Bonnie L. Price this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-21 with Fiction categories.
To the Creshe Empire, I’m just a number. I’ve spent the past five years in isolation and under study. With my home razed by a Syldrari attack, my mind damaged, and nothing but white walls and a viewing window around me, I dedicated myself to two things: training my body, and reading any book they allowed me to have. The Empire wants me to serve, to use the inhuman power the Incident stirred within me. Technically, they asked, but it wasn’t much of a choice. It never is. Serve, or… I refused to be a mindless slave. My life was taken from me once. Never again. With the Empire moving forward with their xenophobic plans, they needed someone capable of killing Syldrari—and I was just that. A tool they could use, a tool they thought they could manipulate. Needing me was their first mistake. They gave me leverage; I named my terms. Now, after five years, my life can begin. Song of the Depths is a slow burn #whychoose romantic science fantasy series with reverse harem elements. It contains strong language, violence, difficult situations, and will contain love scenes (including LGBTQ+ pairings).