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Multi-secularism : a new agenda /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kurtz, Paul, 1925-2012
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2010]
Subjects:
Secular humanism.
Table of Contents:
  • The secular humanist prospect in historical perspective
  • Naturalism and the future
  • Naturalism, secularism, and humanism
  • The ethics of secularism
  • Morality is natural
  • Affirming life
  • The pursuit of excellence: raising the level of taste and appreciation
  • A good will
  • Neo-humanism
  • A modified naturalistic ethical theory
  • Skeptical inquiry and religion
  • Why I am a skeptic about religious claims
  • Religion in conflict : are "evangelical atheists" too outspoken?
  • The passion as a political weapon : anti-Semitism and the Gospels
  • Creating secular and humanist alternatives to religion
  • Is America a post-democratic society?
  • The new American plutocracy
  • Can we bridge the great cultural divide?
  • The industrial-technological revolution
  • The new China and the old
  • The convictions of a secular humanist
  • The transformation of universities
  • Final reflections : perhaps facing death.