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The Wiley Blackwell handbook of humanism /
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism presents an edited collection of essays that explore the nature of Humanism as an approach to life, and a philosophical analysis of the key humanist propositions from naturalism and science to morality and meaning. Represents the first book of its kind to loo...
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Wiley-Blackwell,
2015.
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The Wiley Blackwell handbook of humanism / |c edited by Andrew Copson and A.C. Grayling. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 What Is Humanism? -- The History of the Word -- What Sort of Thing Is Humanism? -- What Is Humanism? -- The Humanist Approach 1: Understanding Reality -- The Humanist Approach 2: Understanding Ourselves -- The Humanist Approach 3: The Good Life and the Whole Person -- The Humanist Approach 4: Morality -- The Humanist Approach 5: Practical Action -- Humanism and Religion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Part I Essentials of Humanism -- Chapter 2 Naturalism -- What Is Naturalism and Why Does It Matter? -- Is Naturalism True? -- What Is Spooky? -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Science, Reason, and Scepticism -- What Are Science and Reason? -- Non-Scientific Approaches to Rationally Assessing Beliefs -- What's So Great about Reason and Science? -- Science as a Threat to Religious Belief -- Other Rational Threats to Religious Belief -- Immunizing Strategies -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Death as Annihilation -- Rejection of Afterlife Living -- Death as Harm -- Living with Death -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 The Good and Worthwhile Life -- Further Reading -- Part II Diverse Manifestations -- Chapter 6 The Materialists of Classical India -- The Charvakas -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Humanism in the Classical World -- The Vitality of Life -- The Search for Fundamental Principles -- Athens, Sophists, and Dramatists -- Plato and Aristotle: The Two Strands of Greek Philosophy -- The Scientists and Philosophers of Alexandria -- The Spread of Rome -- The Coming of Christianity to the Classical World -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Ancient China -- Confucianism -- Classical Taoism -- Buddhism -- Notes -- Further Reading. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 9 Humanistic Thought in the Islamic World of the Middle Ages -- Introduction -- What Were the Circumstances under which Humanistic Views Flourished in Islam? -- How Did This Thinking Develop? -- What Were the Consequences? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III Implications -- Chapter 10 Counselling and the Humanist Worldview -- Introduction -- Four 'Humanism-Rooted' Approaches to Counselling -- Central Dimensions of Present-Day Humanist Counselling -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Making a Home in This World: Humanism and Architecture -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Humanist Ceremonies: The Case of Non-Religious Funerals in England -- The British Humanist Association -- Humanist Funerals Today -- 'The words you spoke': The Person and Beyond in Humanist Funerals -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Humanism and Education -- Does Humanist Education Exist? -- Humanism and History -- Society as Educator -- Family Upbringing -- School Education -- Aims and Curricula -- Knowledge, Imagination, and Emotion -- The Protestant Tradition -- Aesthetic Activities -- Sex Education -- Physical Education -- Education for Personal Well-Being and Moral Sensitivity -- The Work Ethic -- Selection, Giftedness, and Life-Planning -- Children's Experience of School -- Examinations -- Learning Arrangements and Timetabling -- School Leadership -- An Individualist Inheritance -- Religious Education, Faith Schools, and Parents' Rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Humanism and the Political Order -- The Secular Polity -- The Anti-Secularist Case -- Humanism in the Modern World -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Humanism in Recent English Fiction -- A Secular Pilgrimage -- Perspectives from Immigration -- A Condition-of-England Novel -- Two Novels of Ideas -- A Humanist Hero? -- Jesus v. Christ -- Notes. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Further Reading -- Part IV Debates -- Chapter 16 Feminism and Humanism -- Adventures of Feminism and Humanism -- Critical Humanism -- Thinking with Critical Humanism: Feminist Appropriations of Enlightenment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Life Without Meaning? -- Finding the Right Beliefs? -- Meaning: Not Discovered but Made? -- Agnosticism and Mystery -- What Makes Life Meaningful? -- Meaning and Stories -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 Spirituality -- Divorcing Spirituality from Religion -- Historical Precedents for Postmodern Spirituality -- The Nature of the Self -- The Nature and Facets of Spirituality -- Meditation -- Pragmatic Spirituality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19 Is Humanism Too Optimistic? An Analysis of Religion as Religion -- Hitchens v. Blair -- Religion with a Capital 'R' -- Blair is no Catholic -- Vicarious Redemption -- Hitchens v. Alistair McGrath -- Again: Humanism Too Optimistic? -- The 'Religion' of Queen Noor of Jordan -- The Legal Concept of Religion (Religion) -- On Limiting Freedom of Religion -- The Relationship between the First Paragraph and the Second Paragraph -- How Do Courts Interpret 'Religion'? -- Unstunned Ritual Slaughter -- A 'Humanist' Reading of Human Rights -- Notes -- Chapter 20 Humanism, Moral Relativism, and Ethical Objectivity -- The Lure of Absolutism -- Moral Naturalism -- What Morality Is -- Moral Naturalism and Moral Relativism -- Cultural Objectivism and Cosmopolitan Humanism -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21 The Future of Humanism -- What Is Humanism? -- The Future of Humanism and the Humanist Movement -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- EULA. | |
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