Finngeir
Hiorth: INTRODUCTION TO ATHEISM.
Lima: AERPFA, 1997.Finngeir
Hiorth: INTRODUCTION TO ATHEISM.
Lima: AERPFA, 1997.PRESENTATION
PREFACE
1. WHAT IS ATHEISM?
Introduction and brief justification of Atheism, Richard Robinson, Gora, Atheism and Theism, Human rights, Atheistic Organizations, Number of atheists, History of Atheism, Atheism in Germany: Ludwig B5uchner, The future of Atheism
2. ATHEISM´S CONCEPTS
Introduction and summary, Theoretical Atheism and Non Theism, Theism, Deism and Panteism, Defenses of Theism, Flew and the Positive and Negative Atheism, The Positive Atheism of Gora, General, Theoretical and Practical Atheism, Summary of Atheism: Concepts of atheism.
3. JUSTIFICATION OF ATHEISM
Agnosticism, Michael Martin, J. L. Mackie, George H. Smith.
4. CRITICS OF RELIGION
Bertrand Russell, Alfred J. Yesterday, Antony Flew, Ronald W. Hepburn, Walter Kaufmann, Antony O'Hear, Keith Parsons, Michel Scriven and some other critical, Tad S. Clements, Joachim Kahl, Karlheinz Deschner, Guy Fau, Madalyn O'Hair, Ayn Rand, Other Criticisms of Religion.
5. THE ATHEISM OF KAI NIELSEN
Biography, intellectual development, Wittgenstenian fideism, Two concepts of God, Ethics without God, Conclusion, Select Bibliography of the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen.
6. SECULARIZATION
Secularization in general, the Christian World-wide Encyclopedia, Western Countries, Communist Countries, Islamic Countries, Black Africa, Latin America, Western Asia, Thirteen countries and Japan, Religious commentaries on the results of the Encyclopedia, Japan, Indonesia, "Statistical" believers, Another glance to the secularists and the secularization, Conclusion.
7. MATERIALISM
Introduction, Definition and brief history of the materialism, Büchner and the German Physicalist Materialism, the Monism of Haeckel, Büchner, Haeckel and his inheritance, Chapman Cohen, Rudolf Carnap and Physicalism, the Behaviourism, Recent tendencies in the Psychological Materialism, Mario Bunge, Frethinking and Humanism, Naturalism, Books on Materialism.
8. CARL VOGT
Materialism, Physiological Biography, Letters, Faith blind and science, Political Radicalism: The main importance of freedom, Sources.
9. ETHICS AND POSITIVE ATHEISM
The atheistic values, Liberal Atheism, suffering is bad and happiness is a good, right, Reason, Love, Objections to the initiative of Robinson, the base of ethics, Kant and deontology, the Utilitarism, God and Ethics, the Golden rule, the Positive Atheism
LITERATURE
Anthologies, bibliographies, collections, directories, and encyclopedias, Another Literature.
... "According to our reading of Introduction to the Atheism we understand that for the author simply it is contradictory and even absurd an idea of the existence of a supreme being --as well as of his inherent qualities- -. If existed such being not would need that theologians will try to demonstrate his existence by means of arguments. Another important subject of this work is the one of 'practical atheists' that commonly is said of that they live a life not very exemplary, does not matter that they are believing or not, would be better simply to call them immoral. Atheism or theism as such are not sufficient to have a significant life --because this one is the only one --, it is necessary, says the author to us, to base to us on an ethics, for example, one that includes the human rights or at least the decency (the honesty, fulfilling our promises and a consideration by the others). But this is too much for some people.
The book takes us to a route, fundamentally in West, by the minds of which they have contributed mainly to the history and the theory of the atheism without letting name philosophically to less sophisticated "...
... Lima, 23 June, 1997
-M.
A Paz y Miño, President,
Publishing Association
of the Peruvian
Journal of Applied Philosophy (AERPFA)
«Finngeir Hiorth is a Norwegian philosopher widely read and respected, and has traveled much around the world. Introduction to the Atheism is the product of years of compared work studies of atheistic, pantheist, agnostic writers, as well as of humanist, frethinker, secularist and materialist ones».
-Nigel Bruce, Humanism, Scotland.
«In Introduction to the Atheism, the Norwegian scholar Finngeir Hiorth not only makes a mere presentation to the subject but that also he develops the theory of the atheism».
-The Freethinker, London.
«We looked for to provide intellectual sustenance for the thought on matters with importance that promote a vision of the world guided for reason and cradle in the modern knowledge. We do not have any doubt that what Dr Hiorth says in this book will contribute to this intention».
- A. Solomon, Indian Secular Society, Bombay.
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