Fb2 Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Humanism ePub
by Paul Kurtz
Category: | Philosophy |
Subcategory: | Political books |
Author: | Paul Kurtz |
ISBN: | 1573921009 |
ISBN13: | 978-1573921008 |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Prometheus Books (October 1, 1996) |
Fb2 eBook: | 1598 kb |
ePub eBook: | 1638 kb |
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266 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index
266 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : living outside Eden - The failure of theistic morality - Ethical inquiry - The common moral decencies - Excelsior : the ethics of excellence - Responsibilities - Education for character and cognition - Human rights - Privacy - The tree of life.
Paul Kurtz, America's leading secular humanist philosopher, affirms that it is possible to live the good life and be morally responsible .
Paul Kurtz, America's leading secular humanist philosopher, affirms that it is possible to live the good life and be morally responsible, without belief in religion.
Paul Kurtz's "The Ethics of Humanism" is an excellent book showing an alternative to the mind- rape known as religion. As eloquent and insightful as Paul Kurtz can sometimes be, however, he seems to regard his own moral reasoning as THE "reasoned" morality. In such chapters as "The Common Moral Decenies" and "Excelsior, The Ethics of Excellence" Kurtz provides an excllent defense of Humanistic principles and shows that life can indeed have a positive affirmative outlook.
Forbidden Fruit book. This is the path that leads to the discovery of significant ethical truths that can guide both self-reliant conduct and consideration for the rights of others.
Paul Kurtz's "The Ethics of Humanism" is an excellent book showing an alternative to the mind- rape known as religion
Paul Kurtz's "The Ethics of Humanism" is an excellent book showing an alternative to the mind- rape known as religion. Indeed, to champion the Promethean ideal of living an automonus ethical life, is lost today in the world bombarded by theism, and Kurtz I feel does a nice job of trying to be Pro-humanist instead of anti-theist
Paul Kurtz - 1988 - Prometheus Books. Troubling Problems in Medical Ethics the Third Volume in a Series on Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine : Proceedings of the 1980 and 1981 Conferences on Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Paul Kurtz - 1988 - Prometheus Books. Forbidden Fruit Versus Tainted Fruit: Effects of Warning Labels on Attraction to Television Violence. Brad J. Bushman & Angela D. Stack - 1996 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 2 (3):207. Marc D. Basson, Rachel E. Lipson, Doreen L. Ganos & Humanism Medicine Conference on Ethics - 1981. Forbidden Subgraphs in Terms of Forbidden Quantifiers.
Forbidden Fruit is Kurtz’s attempt to show how this is possible According to Kurtz, To ground ethics in God only pushes skepticism one step backward and does not advance the argument (149).
Forbidden Fruit is Kurtz’s attempt to show how this is possible. Taking his title consciously from Genesis 3, he affirms an ethic which is based on a scientific and naturalistic theory of nature and human nature and is grounded in the rational knowledge of good and evil (16). He says boldly, Eating of the fruit of the tree of life gives us the bountiful enthusiasm for living. According to Kurtz, To ground ethics in God only pushes skepticism one step backward and does not advance the argument (149). Furthermore, many people who profess belief in God neglect their moral duties and actually break moral principles.
This is the path that leads to the discovery of significant ethical truths that can guide both self-reliant conduct and consideration for the rights of others.
Автор: Kurtz Paul Название: Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of. .Автор: Kurtz, Paul Название: What Is Secular Humanism?
Автор: Kurtz, Paul Название: What Is Secular Humanism?
PDF Paul Kurtz will be long remembered as the late twentieth century’s . Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Humanism (1987). His later books re-affirmed this secular humanism with bold confidence
PDF Paul Kurtz will be long remembered as the late twentieth century’s pre-eminent philosophical defender of freethinking rationalism and skepticism,. This trilogy stands as the last complete. atheology produced in the western world. His later books re-affirmed this secular humanism with bold confidence. Secularists do not look to salvation and confirmation of the afterlife as their. overriding goal, but rather focus on temporal humanist values in the here and now –.
Fundamentalists of all religious persuasions would have us believe that morality is impossible without belief in God. Paul Kurtz, America's leading secular humanist philosopher, affirms that it is not only possible but that such an approach can lead to a higher ethical level. We must be nourished by the "forbidden fruit", the knowledge of good and evil, if we are to make informed choices. We must also eat from the tree of life to discover significant moral values to guide our conduct and develop our potential for a bountiful existence. This path leads to self-reliant conduct and consideration for the rights of others.