Author: Publisher:
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Category : Rationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
The Literary Guide and Rationalist Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
The Literary Guide and Rationalist Review
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Rationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Friendship in Doubt
Author: Richard KaczynskiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197694004
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Infidel. Atheist. Rationalist. Agnostic. Occultist Aleister Crowley, soldier J. F. C. Fuller, and poet Victor Neuburg embraced these labels as active contributors and participants in the British secularist movement at the dawn of the twentieth century. Rebelling against Victorian religious and social strictures, they dreamed of a world guided by scientific evidence instead of superstition. Friendship in Doubt examines how the Agnostic movement-from Saladin's Agnostic Journal and G. W. Foote's Freethinker, to the Rationalist Press Association and its Literary Guide--inspired and introduced Crowley, Fuller, and Neuburg to each other as foundational figures in the new religious movement of Thelema. Agnosticism would inform not only Thelema, but also Crowley's publishing company S.P.R.T.; Aâ, Aâ, , a successor to the fragmented Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; the Equinox journal; and the concept of "magick" as Scientific Illuminism. This volume also collects for the first time the contributions of all three to the Agnostic literature. This scarce and largely unknown material provides insight into the thinking of Crowley, Fuller and Neuburg at the start of their careers, and an understanding of their subsequent trajectories after they parted ways. As such, it provides unique insights into the role of Agnosticism in the formative years of an emerging occult movement which would go on to exert an immense influence on Western esotericism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley
Author: Edward CloddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Evolution of the Idea of God
Author: Grant AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The University Magazine and Free Review
Author: The Open court
Author: The Hindustan Review ...
Author: The Monist
Author: Paul CarusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices.
Against Empathy
Author: Paul BloomPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062339354
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it, but to draw instead upon a more distanced compassion. Basing his argument on groundbreaking scientific findings, Bloom makes the case that some of the worst decisions made by individuals and nations—who to give money to, when to go to war, how to respond to climate change, and who to imprison—are too often motivated by honest, yet misplaced, emotions. With precision and wit, he demonstrates how empathy distorts our judgment in every aspect of our lives, from philanthropy and charity to the justice system; from medical care and education to parenting and marriage. Without empathy, Bloom insists, our decisions would be clearer, fairer, and—yes—ultimately more moral. Brilliantly argued, urgent and humane, AGAINST EMPATHY shows us that, when it comes to both major policy decisions and the choices we make in our everyday lives, limiting our impulse toward empathy is often the most compassionate choice we can make.
