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Author : John Bagnell Bury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Free thought
ISBN : OSU:32437000242343
Author : Jonathan Rauch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226130552
The classic “compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies” now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will (Kirkus Reviews). “A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.” So writes Jonathan Rauch in Kindly Inquisitors, which has challenged readers for decades with its provocative analysis of attempts to limit free speech. In it, Rauch makes a persuasive argument for the value of “liberal science” and the idea that conflicting views produce knowledge within society. In this expanded edition of Kindly Inquisitors, a new foreword by George F. Will explores the book’s continued relevance, while a substantial new afterword by Rauch elaborates upon his original argument and brings it fully up to date. Two decades after the book’s initial publication, the regulation of hate speech has grown both domestically and internationally. But the answer to prejudice, Rauch argues, is pluralism—not purism. Rather than attempting to legislate bias and prejudice out of existence, we must pit them against one another to foster a more vigorous and fruitful discussion. It is this process, Rauch argues, that will enable our society to replace hate with knowledge, both ethical and empirical.
Author : Fred Whitehead,Verle Muhrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024945860
A stirring anthology that documents, in poetry, song, stories, memoirs, and essays, the breadth and scope of secularism from the early 19th century to the present. Included are pieces by the notables--Twain, Dreiser, Lindsay, Service, Sandburg, Hughes, Masters, et al.--as well as grassroots contributions. Also included are photographs of authors, historical sites, and The Truth seeker cartoons of Watson Hedges. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547599166
In Free Thought and Official Propaganda, Bertrand Russell delves deep into the intricacies of free thinking juxtaposed against the pervasive influences of official propaganda. With his sharp analytical prowess, Russell illuminates the dynamics of information dissemination, societal control, and the relentless pursuit of truth in an age of conflicting narratives.
Author : Gerald A. Larue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Free thought
ISBN : 0931779030
Author : Milton Mayer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226525976
National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider.” —The New York TImes They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” These ten men were not men of distinction, according to Mayer, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.
Author : Paul Blanshard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Free thought
ISBN : 0879754214
A collection of striking essays by great dissenters. The contributors include Hugo Black, Harry A. Blackmun, Clarence Darrow, Charles Darwin, Felix Frankfurter, E. Haldeman-Julius, T. H. Huxley, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Mark Twain, Voltaire, and many others.
Author : Thomas Vickers,John Baptist Purcell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : HARVARD:HNSSUB
Author : Roger Pullin
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781478735700
This book is about thought—not the basic thought that we use to determine what to eat or wear or buy—but the Free Thought we use to make personal choices about the higher things of life: faith or unbelief, justice, morality, and the development and use of our creativity. Free Thought can have any outcome, including unbelief or faith, which is defined here as personal belief and trust in God, not as a religious affiliation. Free Thought is founded on free will. Everyone is a unique combination of a material body-mind and a spiritual soul. Free Thought is the integrated and iterative processing of information from the material and spiritual realms, in one or more common nonmaterial formats, across a mind-soul interface. Through our Free Thought, God and the spiritual force for evil change us and we change the material realm. All truthful spiritual insights and truthful disclosures through mathematics and science come from God, and it is through faith and science that we approach one whole body of truth. Free Thought, Faith, and Science includes definitions of terms, summaries of the author’s beliefs and background, a literature review, and a questionnaire for readers. It’s a comprehensive and thought-provoking book that will contribute to bringing more believers and nonbelievers together in an expansion of the faith-science quest for truth.
Author : Adam Storey Farrar
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547373582
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion" by Adam Storey Farrar. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Adam Storey Farrar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Free thought
ISBN : UOM:39015064434783
Author : Dan Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Atheism
ISBN : 1877733059
Compares concepts of God to concepts of other mythological beings and stories.
Author : Marc Jonathan Blitz,Jan Christoph Bublitz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030844943
Freedom of thought is one of the great and venerable notions of Western thought, often celebrated in philosophical texts – and described as a crucial right in American, European, and International Law, and in that of other jurisdictions. What it means more precisely is, however, anything but clear; surprisingly little writing has been devoted to it. In the past, perhaps, there has been little need for such elaboration. As one Supreme Court Justice stressed, “[f]reedom to think is absolute of its own nature” because even “the most tyrannical government is powerless to control the inward workings of the mind.” But the rise of brain scanning, cognition enhancement, and other emerging technologies make this question a more pressing one. This volume provides an interdisciplinary exploration of how freedom of thought might function as an ethical principle and as a constitutional or human right. It draws on philosophy, legal analysis, history, and reflections on neuroscience and neurotechnology to explore what respect for freedom of thought (or an individual’s cognitive liberty or autonomy) requires.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Free thought
ISBN : CORNELL:31924016373536
Author : Tomáš Bubík,Atko Remmel,David Václavík
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000039832
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In contrast to scholarship that has focused on the ‘decline of religion’ and secularization theory, the book builds upon recent trends to focus on the ‘rise of non-religion’ itself. While the label of ‘post-communism’ might suggest a generalized perception of the region, this survey reveals that the precise developments in each country before, after and even during the communist era are surprisingly diverse. A multinational team of contributors provide interdisciplinary case studies covering Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. This approach utilises perspectives from social and intellectual history in combination with sociology of religion in order to cover the historical development of secularity and secular thought, complemented with sociological data. The study is framed by methodological and analytical chapters. Offering an important geographical perspective to the study of freethought, atheism, secularity and non-religion, this wide-ranging book will be of significant interest to scholars of twentieth-century social and intellectual history, sociology of religion and non-religion, cultural and religious studies, philosophy and theology.