Freethought Across The Centuries
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Freethought Across The Centuries
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Author : Gerald A. Larue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Freethought Across The Centuries written by Gerald A. Larue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Free thought categories.
A History Of Free Thought In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : John Mackinnon Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
A History Of Free Thought In The Nineteenth Century written by John Mackinnon Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with categories.
A Short History Of Freethought Vol 2 Of 2
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Author : John M. Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-23
A Short History Of Freethought Vol 2 Of 2 written by John M. Robertson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-23 with Literary Collections categories.
Freethinkers and secularists may believe that theirs is a relatively modern philosophy. But as A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 of 2 explains, freethought has a long and dignified history and has survived many previous attempts by government and churches to stifle reason and logic. Volume 1 traces the philosophies that were prevalent in the ancient world and Volume 2 describes freethought during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. J. M. Robertson was a Liberal member of Parliament, journalist and advocate of rationalism and secularism. He authored several books, including one on the historicity of Jesus. According to Robertson even some of history's most celebrated thinkers, like John Stuart Mill, had a tendency to timidly "speak out without really speaking out" about their secularist beliefs. This problem is still ever present in our own time. Volume 2 opens with the rise of modern freethought in Italy and throughout Europe, partly as a reaction to the Reformation. Robertson does a good job of explaining the political, religious and social forces that affected the freethought movement. Although the Church fought freethinkers, scientists like Copernicus and Galileo gave new life to secular ideas. The chapters on British Freethought in the 17th and 18th Century are rigorous and cover every major figure of the time and many minor ones that are less familiar to readers. This is particularly true in the chapters tracing secularism in the rest of Europe, as conditions in Poland, Portugal and Switzerland are included in the Volume. The discussion of early freethought in the United States is a helpful summary of scholars and statesmen who framed the Constitution, most of whom espoused deism, actively rejecting divinely-inspired texts. Their disavowal of established religious practices was just as revolutionary as their political declaration of independence from the United Kingdom. The book ends with the waves of freethinkers in the 19th Century, again reviewing the situation in most of the major countries around the world. A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 of 2 is still the most comprehensive book on the intellectual history of freethought and skepticism. Secularist readers will recognize that the arguments levied against these skeptics are the same ones brought to bear in our current century. This book is a must-read for secular humanists, atheists and skeptics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A History Of Freethought In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : John Mackinnon Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01-05
A History Of Freethought In The Nineteenth Century written by John Mackinnon Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-05 with Free thought categories.
A continuation of Robertson's A History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, this work centred on Europe and American freethought in the century that saw the greatest surge of religious doubt and scepticism. At the heart of this work lies the doctrine of evolution and the birth of 'new' sciences like anthropology, psychology, sociology and the growth of ethics without religious dogma. Together these works tell an exciting story and would be of benefit to all students of the history of ideas whatever their core interest. --sole lifetime edition of major and pioneering intellectual source book --important biographical source for pre and post-Darwinian religious thinking in Europe and America --attractively illustrated with 48 portraits --packed with cross-references and bibliographical information --relevant to all historians of ideas
A Biographical Dictionary Of Freethinkers Of All Ages And Nations
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Author : Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
A Biographical Dictionary Of Freethinkers Of All Ages And Nations written by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Free thought categories.
A History Of Freethought In The 19 Century
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Author : J. M. Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
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Free Thoughts On Religion The Church And National Happiness
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Author : Bernard Mandeville
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-18
Free Thoughts On Religion The Church And National Happiness written by Bernard Mandeville and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with Philosophy categories.
Bernard Mandeville was best known for The Fable of the Bees, in which he demolishes the supposed moral basis of society by a Hobbesian demonstration that civilization depends on vice. Today Mandeville is seen as a trenchant satirist of the manners and foibles of his age. He is also seen as a precursor of some of Adam Smith's doctrines, a forerunner in the field of sociology. A prescient analyst of the dynamics of our modern consumer society, Mandeville is author of a striking naturalistic account of the gradual evolution of modern society from its primitive antecedents. His literary signature, in a manner of speaking, is his famous paradox, "private vices, public benefits." This new edition of Free Thoughts is prefaced by a lengthy and informative introduction by Irwin Primer, who recreates not only the literary, political, and religious atmosphere surrounding Mandeville, but also the controversies that surrounded his writing in mid-eighteenth-century England. Primer includes textual notes on the first and second editions of this classic work. To understand Mandeville's Free Thoughts, one needs to situate it within the context of the religious and political controversies, ongoing subversion, fear and dormant warfare of his times. Those would eventually erupt again and for the last time in the bloody Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46. The first five chapters of the book explore religious and theological issues including the nature of belief and knowledge, the significance of rites and ceremonies, and controversies about Christian mysteries such as the Trinity and free will and predestination. The next five chapters explore controversial issues of church politics, including persecution and toleration across the centuries, the basis of Mandeville's anticlericalism. In the eleventh chapter, he turns aside from matters of religion to review the balance of powers in Britain's government, a mixed or limited monarchy. The final chapter is essentially a repetition of Mandeville's pleas for civil and religious peace through mutual toleration by opposing religious parties. Mandeville's work is of continuing interest to students of culture and history, religion and theology, and political science. Irwin Primer is professor emeritus at Rutgers University who has written widely on Mandeville and the Scottish tradition in philosophy.
The Free Mind Through The Ages
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Author : Edward L. Ericson
language : en
Publisher: Frederick Ungar
Release Date : 1985
The Free Mind Through The Ages written by Edward L. Ericson and has been published by Frederick Ungar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Philosophy categories.
A History Of Freethought Ancient And Modern To The Period Of The French Revolution
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Author : John Mackinnon Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Thoemmes Press
Release Date : 2001-05-01
A History Of Freethought Ancient And Modern To The Period Of The French Revolution written by John Mackinnon Robertson and has been published by Thoemmes Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-01 with Philosophy categories.
John Mackinnon Robertson (1856--1933), scholar and man of letters, was a Rationalist and humanist who wrote voluminously on a wide range of intellectual and literary projects. This work and the following grew out of the successful A Short History of Freethought (1915). This first work covers the period from early man's doubts about gods through to the end of the eighteenth century. --arguably the first full history of freethought in the English language --evised, expanded and final authoritative edition --handsomely illustrated with 44 portraits --packed with cross-references and bibliographical information --covers European and Eastern freethinking
Freethinkers
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Author : Susan Jacoby
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2005-01-07
Freethinkers written by Susan Jacoby and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-07 with Religion categories.
An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times) At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with liberal and tolerant religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for reforms opposed by reactionary forces in the past and today. Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrow—as well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, "the Great Agnostic"—Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanists. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system.
