Freethought and Freedom

Freethought and Freedom
Author: George H. Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781944424374

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Liberty of conscience and freedom of thought are twin, core components of modern life in societies across the world. The ability to pursue one's vision of the right and the good, coupled with liberty to pursue individual reason and enlightenment, helped produce so much of modern life that we may be apt to forget that libertarian philosophy was not dictated by Nature. Freethought and Freedom surveys the long history of religious and intellectual liberty, exploring their key ideas along the way.

Freethought and Freedom

Freethought and Freedom
Author: George H. Smith
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1944424385

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Liberty of conscience and freedom of thought are twin, core components of modern life in societies across the world. The ability to pursue one?s vision of the right and the good, coupled with liberty to pursue individual reason and enlightenment, helped produce so much of modern life that we may be apt to forget that libertarian philosophy was not dictated by Nature. Freethought and Freedom surveys the long history of religious and intellectual liberty, exploring their key ideas along the way.

Freethought Across the Centuries

Freethought Across the Centuries
Author: Gerald A. Larue
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1996
Genre: Free thought
ISBN: 9780931779039

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A History of Freedom of Thought

A History of Freedom of Thought
Author: John Bagnell Bury
Publisher: IDEA
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781932716320

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Most people who live in open societies, especially in the West, take freedom of thought and expression for granted. Yet throughout most of history, independent thinking was discouraged and often persecuted. The battle for independence of mind continued for centuries. In Freedom of Thought, J. B. Bury provides a dramatic survey of intellectual history, clearly and eloquently describing the struggle for intellectual freedom from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. He guides the reader from the flowering of rational inquiry in early Greece, through the suppression of free thought during much of the Middle Ages, to the rediscovery of classical philosophy in the Renaissance, and finally to the growth of rationalism beginning with the Age of Reason in the 17th century. Along the way, Bury explains the key events that contributed to the modern rational understanding of nature and offers concise sketches of the many important persons'philosophers, scientists, and writers'who c

400 Years of Freethought

400 Years of Freethought
Author: Samuel Porter Putnam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1178
Release: 1894
Genre: Free thought
ISBN:

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A History of Freedom of Thought

A History of Freedom of Thought
Author: John Bagnell Bury
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1913
Genre: Free thought
ISBN:

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Traces freedom of thought from the freedom of Greece, through the persecution of the medieval church and state, to the rise of religious toleration and rationalism.

Free to Serve

Free to Serve
Author: Stephen V. Monsma
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493400061

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What do Hobby Lobby, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Wheaton College, World Vision, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the University of Notre Dame have in common? All are faith-based organizations that have faced pressure to act in ways contrary to their religious beliefs. In this book, two policy experts show how faith-based groups--those active in the educational, healthcare, international aid and development, and social service fields--can defend their ability to follow their religiously based beliefs without having to jettison the very faith and faith-based practices that led them to provide services to those in need. They present a pluralist vision for religious freedom for faith-based organizations of all religious traditions. The book includes case studies that document the challenges faith-based organizations face to freely follow the practices of their religious traditions and analyzes these threats as originating in a common, yet erroneous, set of assumptions and attitudes prevalent in American society. The book also includes responses by diverse voices--an Orthodox Jew, a Roman Catholic, two evangelicals, two Islamic leaders, and an unbeliever who is a religious-freedom advocate--underscoring the importance of religious freedom for faith-based organizations.

Modern Freethought

Modern Freethought
Author: John Gerard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1905
Genre: Free thought
ISBN:

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A History of Freedom of Thought

A History of Freedom of Thought
Author: J. B. Bury
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8027303214

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It is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds of his experience and the power of his imagination. In this book J.B. Bury examines the freedom of thought throughout history from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. Contents: Reason Free (Greece And Rome) Reason in Prison (The Middle Ages) Prospect of Deliverance (The Renaissance and the Reformation) Religious Toleration The Growth of Rationalism (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) The Progress of Rationalism (Nineteenth Century) The Justification of Liberty of Thought

Just Pretend

Just Pretend
Author: Dan Barker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2002
Genre: Atheism
ISBN: 9781877733055

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Compares concepts of God to concepts of other mythological beings and stories.