Humanism: A Beginner's Guide - Softcover

Cave, Peter

 
9781851685899: Humanism: A Beginner's Guide
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1851685898 ISBN 13: 9781851685899
Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2009

Synopsis

Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? With historical adherents including such thinkers as Einstein, Freud, Philip Pullman, and Frank Zappa, Humanism’s central quest is to make sense of such questions, explaining the ethical and metaphysical by appealing to shared human values, rationality, and tolerance. Essential reading for atheists, agnostics, ignostics, freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, and believers too, this Beginner’s Guide will explain all aspects of the Humanist philosophy whilst providing an alternative and valuable conception of life without religion.

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About the Author

Writer and broadcaster Peter Cave teaches philosophy for The Open University and City University London. Author of the bestselling Can A Robot Be Human?, he chairs the Humanist Philosophers’ Group, frequently contributes to philosophy journals and magazines, from the academic to the popular, and has presented several philosophy programmes for the BBC. He lives in London.

From the Back Cover

Does goodness require God? Do we need eternity for meaningful lives?
Should we believe in God without evidence? Peter Cave’s new book,
Humanism, is a welcome guide, with very human answers, to these
questions and many more.
With historical adherents as various as Mark Twain, Einstein, Freud,
Philip Pullman, and Frank Zappa, Humanism’s central quest is to live with
meaning with no need for the supernatural. Cave explores the humanist
approach to religious belief, ethics, and politics, together with moral
dilemmas and those ‘meaning of life’ questions that can keep us awake
at night. Showing how humanists make sense of the world using reason,
experience, and sensitivity, Cave emphasizes that we can, and should,
flourish without God. Lively, provocative, and refreshingly rant-free,
this book is essential reading for all – whether atheist, agnostic, believer,
or of no view – who wish better to understand what it means to be human.

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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1851685898
ISBN 13 
9781851685899
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
200