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'Abounds in deep insights into human nature ... a notable contribution towards a contemporary spirituality.' John Macquarrie, New Blackfriars
Assuming no previous knowledge, this text provides an introduction to Humanism and includes Humanist marriage and funeral ceremonies written by students.
Compares the features which humanism, Marxism and nationalism share with recognized religions, analyzing each in turn, and asks whether there is not always a threat of the demonic when any contingent reality - man, the economic order or the skill - is made absolute.
Examines that theism has always understood the divine as awaiting human cognisance and worship.
Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) was one of Denmark's greatest scholars within Indoeuropean studies. His letters to scholars in Denmark provide a unique insight into the working methods of a young linguist. This book includes the letters, preserved in the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
A collection of essays in which Femia argues that Labriola, Gramsci, Mosca and Pareto are united by the worldly humanism inherited from Machiavelli. This was due to their distinctively Italian hostility to the metaphysical abstractions of natural law and Christian theology which accounted for similarities in their thought.
Summarises, synthesizes, and assesses over forty years of research in religious movements by historians, sociologists, and psychologists of religion. This text also provides an introduction to the study of religious phenomena.
One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book, the author seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with a comprehensive analysis of the humanist's attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism.
This volume provides an introduction to economics in terms of human rather than material welfare. The book recommends a more rational economic order and proposes new principles of economic policy.
The Case for Humanism is the premier textbook to introduce and help students think critically about the _big ideas_ of Western humanism--secularism, rationalism, materialism, science, democracy, individualism, and others--all powerful themes that run through Western thought from the ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment to the present day.
Contains material that is primarily verbal, intellectual and ideological, and reflective and sentimental. This book states that the style rests on the conviction that celebration events can touch the mind and the heart; the content rests on the conviction that reason and emotion, inspiration and integrity, humanism and Judaism are complementary.
An examination of divine omnipotence , based on ten themes central to religion: language; law; love; truth; tribe; selfhood; nature; power; time; and worship. A final chapter argues that Christianity is, in fact, divine risk . The text draws on religions, poetry, literature and the humanities.
Secularism was born of Christianity. This book argues that it is impossible to understand the idea of the secular without appreciating that, at root, it is Christian. It reshapes discussions of western culture, religion and politics. It is suitable for students of religion, political philosophy, and the history of ideas.
Reflecting the broad range of interests of a major Renaissance philosopher and his distinctive brand of syncretism, this title offers three central works of Pico's in their entirety.