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Hide books by the same authorEthics for the New Millennium
Dalai Lama XIV · 239 pages
In a difficult, uncertain time, it takes a person of great courage, such as the Dalai Lama, to give us hope. Regardless of the violence and cynicism we see on television and read about in the news, there is an argument to be made for basic human goodness. The number of people who spend their lives engaged in violence and dishonesty is tiny compared to the vast majority who would wish others only w
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti · 370 pages
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Christopher Hitchens · 499 pages
Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.
Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet Boxed Set
Benjamin Hoff · 428 pages
The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud · 95 pages
In what is considered one of his greatest contributions to psychology, Austrian psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud describes his perspectives on the development and origins of religion - religion as an illusion, wishes that are the "fulfillments of the oldest, strongest, and most urgent wishes of mankind." He goes on to explain and illustrate, "what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Jennifer Michael Hecht · 551 pages
Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
Alan W. Watts · 185 pages
How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
James K.A. Smith · 160 pages
This book is a smart, intelligent guide to navigating today's culture. How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present." It is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of w
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
Terry Eagleton · 185 pages
How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
Francis A. Schaeffer · 288 pages
As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God's revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning. -
Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
Armin Navabi · 128 pages
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Rene Girard · 199 pages
Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map of human behavior, and sees Jesus Christ as the turning point leading to new life. The title echoes Jesus' words: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven". Girard persuades us that even as ou
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Alain de Botton · 320 pages
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world.
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor · 885 pages
"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God b
Freedom of the Will (Great Awakening Writings: 1725-1760)
Jonathan Edwards · 348 pages
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
Alvin Plantinga · 359 pages
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris · 256 pages
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Waking Up is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experienc
A Confession
Leo Tolstoy · 95 pages
Leo Tolstoy wrote this short meditation on sadness and the meaning of life when he was middle aged. He had already completed his masterworks, Anna Karenina and War and Peace , reared fourteen children, and gained fame and acclaim in Russia as a man of letters. But despite having attained that success, he still found himself unhappy and always returning to the disturbing idea that all achievement i
Religion and Science
Bertrand Russell · 255 pages
"In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. Examining accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine or biblical interpretations of the day, from Galileo and the Copernican Revolution, to the medi
The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
David Berlinski · 230 pages
A secular Jew, Berlinski delivers a biting defense of religous thought. An acclaimed author who has spent his career writing about mathematics and the seciences, he turns the scientific community's cherished skepticism back on itself, daring to ask and answer some rather embarrassing questions. -- Dust jacket.