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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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Hoboken :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.