The Devil and Secular Humanism: The Children of the EnlightenmentBloomsbury Academic, 1990 M11 30 - 170 pages There is currently much confusion about the nature of humanism and a good deal of interest in its point of view. As the object of attack and suspicion by fundamentalists, conservatives, and traditional religionists, Howard B. Radest believes that humanism deserves a clear and responsible treatment. He accomplishes this in this book by clarifying the nature of humanism in historical and current thought. The Enlightenment, Radest states, gave birth to a number of humanist values that are still being worked out in today's societies. He reconstructs how humanist values have been considered dangerous by those who fear a change in the status quo. Humanism, Radest maintains, is the true descendant of the age of reason and freedom. |
Contents
From Philosophy to Biography | 1 |
The Fundamentalist | 15 |
Rationalism Free Thought and | 31 |
Copyright | |
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