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Before the Sunrise - A Haiku Poetry Collection (Paperback): Germann Before the Sunrise - A Haiku Poetry Collection (Paperback)
Germann
R240 R223 Discovery Miles 2 230 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Humanism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, New): Stephen Law Humanism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, New)
Stephen Law
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's profile rises, those who reject religion, including humanists, often find themselves misunderstood, and occasionally misrepresented. Stephen Law explores how humanism uses science and reason to make sense of the world, looking at how it encourages individual moral responsibility and shows that life can have meaning without religion. Challenging some of the common misconceptions, he seeks to dispute the claims that atheism and humanism are 'faith positions' and that without God there can be no morality and our lives are left without purpose. Looking at the history of humanism and its development as a philosophical alternative, he examines the arguments for and against the existence of God, and explores the role humanism plays in moral and secular societies, as well as in moral and religious education. Using humanism to determine the meaning of life, he shows that there is a positive alternative to traditional religious belief. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Alma Mater (Paperback): Ajani Abdul-Khaliq Alma Mater (Paperback)
Ajani Abdul-Khaliq
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Get A Hold Of Yourself (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Xolani Kacela Get A Hold Of Yourself (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Xolani Kacela; Illustrated by Shamim Rashid
R419 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R22 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Atheist's Letters to Heaven (Paperback): Naimbai Njerakey An Atheist's Letters to Heaven (Paperback)
Naimbai Njerakey
R572 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Imperfect Garden - The Legacy of Humanism (Paperback): Tzvetan Todorov Imperfect Garden - The Legacy of Humanism (Paperback)
Tzvetan Todorov
R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavation of humanism, Tzvetan Todorov seeks an answer to modernity's fundamental challenge: how to maintain our hard-won liberty without paying too dearly in social ties, common values, and a coherent and responsible sense of self. Todorov reads afresh the works of major humanists--primarily Montaigne, Rousseau, and Constant, but also Descartes, Montesquieu, and Toqueville. Each chapter considers humanism's approach to one major theme of human existence: liberty, social life, love, self, morality, and expression. Discussing humanism in dialogue with other systems, Todorov finds a response to the predicament of modernity that is far more instructive than any offered by conservatism, scientific determinism, existential individualism, or humanism's other contemporary competitors. Humanism suggests that we are members of an intelligent and sociable species who can act according to our will while connecting the well-being of other members with our own. It is through this understanding of free will, Todorov argues, that we can use humanism to rescue universality and reconcile human liberty with solidarity and personal integrity. Placing the history of ideas at the service of a quest for moral and political wisdom, Todorov's compelling and no doubt controversial rethinking of humanist ideas testifies to the enduring capacity of those ideas to meditate on--and, if we are fortunate, cultivate--the imperfect garden in which we live.

The day and the dweller (Paperback): Jonathan Thompson The day and the dweller (Paperback)
Jonathan Thompson
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rationalism and Humanism - Delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1 on October 18, 1933 - With an Excerpt from the... Rationalism and Humanism - Delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1 on October 18, 1933 - With an Excerpt from the Economic Philosophies, 1941 by Ratish Mohan Agrawala (Paperback)
J.A. Hobson, Ratish Mohan Agrawala
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Learning Who You Are - An Introduction to Experimental Spirituality (Paperback): Peter Calvert, Keith Hill Learning Who You Are - An Introduction to Experimental Spirituality (Paperback)
Peter Calvert, Keith Hill
R387 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
For Humanism - Explorations in Theory and Politics (Hardcover): David Alderson, Robert Spencer For Humanism - Explorations in Theory and Politics (Hardcover)
David Alderson, Robert Spencer
R2,117 Discovery Miles 21 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today, anti-humanism is a dominant, even definitive, feature of contemporary theory. Setting out to challenge this tendency, editors David Alderson and Kevin Anderson argue that the political moment demands a reappraisal of the humanist tradition. Humanism, in all its diversity and complexity, may facilitate the renewal of progressive theory through the championing of human subjectivity, agency and freedom. Across four extended essays, David Alderson, Kevin Anderson, Barbara Epstein and Robert Spencer engage critically with the Marxist tradition, recent developments in poststructuralism, postcolonialism and queer theory. Incorporating an overview of the historical context that resulted in socialist humanism’s eclipse in the 1950s and '60s, and a strident critique of anti-humanism, For Humanism offers a coherent and compelling argument for the rehabilitation of a much maligned tradition.

The Human Animal Earthling Identity - Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements... The Human Animal Earthling Identity - Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements (Paperback)
Carrie P. Freeman
R1,067 Discovery Miles 10 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With The Human Animal Earthling Identity Carrie P. Freeman asks us to reconsider the devastating division we have created between the human and animal conditions, leading to mass exploitation, injustice, and extinction. As a remedy, Freeman believes social movements should collectively foster a cultural shift in human identity away from an egoistic anthropocentrism (human-centered outlook) and toward a universal altruism (species-centered ethic), so people may begin to see themselves more broadly as "human animal earthlings." To formulate the basis for this identity shift, Freeman examines overlapping values (supporting life, fairness, responsibility, and unity) that are common in global rights declarations and in the current campaign messages of sixteen global social movement organizations that work on human/civil rights, nonhuman animal protection, and/or environmental issues, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the World Wildlife Federation, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Rainforest Action Network, and Greenpeace. She also interviews the leaders of these advocacy groups to gain their insights on how human and nonhuman protection causes can become allies by engaging common opponents and activating shared values and goals on issues such as the climate crisis, enslavement, extinction, pollution, inequality, destructive farming and fishing, and threats to democracy. Freeman's analysis of activist discourse considers ethical ideologies on behalf of social justice, animal rights, and environmentalism, using animal rights' respect for sentient individuals as a bridge connecting human rights to a more holistic valuing of species and ecological systems. Ultimately, Freeman uses her findings to recommend a set of universal values around which all social movements' campaign messages can collectively cultivate respectful relations between "human animal earthlings," fellow sentient beings, and the natural world we share.

A Reasonable God - Engaging the New Face of Atheism (Hardcover): Gregory E Ganssle A Reasonable God - Engaging the New Face of Atheism (Hardcover)
Gregory E Ganssle
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Calmly engaging the philosophical arguments posed by best-selling authors Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, and to a lesser extent, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, Gregory Ganssle's A Reasonable God is a nuanced, charitable, and philosophically well-informed defense of the existence of God. Eschewing the rhetoric and provocative purposes of the New Atheists, Ganssle instead lucidly and objectively analyzes each argument on its own philosophical merits, to see how persuasive they prove to be. Surveying topics including the relationship between faith and reason, moral arguments for the existence of God, the Darwinian theories of the origin of religion, he pays particular attention to, and ultimately rejects, what he determines is the strongest logical argument against the existence of god posed by the new atheists, put forth by Dawkins: that our universe resembles more of what an atheistic universe would be like than it does with what a theistic universe would be like.

The Human Animal Earthling Identity - Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements... The Human Animal Earthling Identity - Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements (Hardcover)
Carrie P. Freeman
R3,613 Discovery Miles 36 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With The Human Animal Earthling Identity Carrie P. Freeman asks us to reconsider the devastating division we have created between the human and animal conditions, leading to mass exploitation, injustice, and extinction. As a remedy, Freeman believes social movements should collectively foster a cultural shift in human identity away from an egoistic anthropocentrism (human-centered outlook) and toward a universal altruism (species-centered ethic), so people may begin to see themselves more broadly as "human animal earthlings." To formulate the basis for this identity shift, Freeman examines overlapping values (supporting life, fairness, responsibility, and unity) that are common in global rights declarations and in the current campaign messages of sixteen global social movement organizations that work on human/civil rights, nonhuman animal protection, and/or environmental issues, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the World Wildlife Federation, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Rainforest Action Network, and Greenpeace. She also interviews the leaders of these advocacy groups to gain their insights on how human and nonhuman protection causes can become allies by engaging common opponents and activating shared values and goals on issues such as the climate crisis, enslavement, extinction, pollution, inequality, destructive farming and fishing, and threats to democracy. Freeman's analysis of activist discourse considers ethical ideologies on behalf of social justice, animal rights, and environmentalism, using animal rights' respect for sentient individuals as a bridge connecting human rights to a more holistic valuing of species and ecological systems. Ultimately, Freeman uses her findings to recommend a set of universal values around which all social movements' campaign messages can collectively cultivate respectful relations between "human animal earthlings," fellow sentient beings, and the natural world we share.

Christ-The Original Matrix (Paperback): Timothy D Carroll Christ-The Original Matrix (Paperback)
Timothy D Carroll; Foreword by Richard K Murray
R352 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R28 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God is Good (Paperback): Martin G Kuhrt God is Good (Paperback)
Martin G Kuhrt; Foreword by Alex Jacob
R837 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Save R261 (31%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Answering the Music Man (Paperback): B Kyle Keltz, Tricia Scribner Answering the Music Man (Paperback)
B Kyle Keltz, Tricia Scribner; Foreword by Richard Land
R790 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R101 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sensum - Untangling Our Innermost Interpretations (Paperback, 2nd ed.): N.R. Adams Sensum - Untangling Our Innermost Interpretations (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
N.R. Adams
R327 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Manifest $1000 in 21 Days - A Practical Workbook for Curious People (Paperback): Brooklyn Storme How to Manifest $1000 in 21 Days - A Practical Workbook for Curious People (Paperback)
Brooklyn Storme
R612 R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Purposehood - Transform Your Life, Transform the World (Paperback): Ammar Charani Purposehood - Transform Your Life, Transform the World (Paperback)
Ammar Charani
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy (Paperback): Ernst Cassirer The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy (Paperback)
Ernst Cassirer; Translated by Mario Domandi
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Simon versus Simon - The Story of Lucius and the Magician's Duel (Paperback): Philip E Sears Simon versus Simon - The Story of Lucius and the Magician's Duel (Paperback)
Philip E Sears
R537 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to See Religion Differently (Paperback): Luke Pemberton How to See Religion Differently (Paperback)
Luke Pemberton
R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ever felt confused about religious belief but reluctant to question it? Ever considered that religious beliefs may in fact be less than wholesome, but weren't sure how to ponder them? Well this book will help. Written by someone who attended religious schools all his life, studied theology, and was a committed believer for many years, the author will walk you through his journey from belief to full-blown scepticism. Easy-to-read, and containing over 200 drawings, this book will help give you clarity of mind and a sense of liberation allowing you to move forward in life with new found confidence and self-acceptance. Pick up a copy of 'How to See Religion Differently' today and see why it's better to be an amazing primate than a fallen angel, why religion is like a teddy bear, why God would be unfriended on social media today, and why religion should fall foul of advertising standard guidelines.

The Natural History of the Ten Commandments (Paperback): Ernest Thompson Seton The Natural History of the Ten Commandments (Paperback)
Ernest Thompson Seton
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Humanist's Devotional - 366 Daily Meditations from Some of the World's Greatest Thinkers (Paperback): Jessica Hagy The Humanist's Devotional - 366 Daily Meditations from Some of the World's Greatest Thinkers (Paperback)
Jessica Hagy; Illustrated by Jessica Hagy
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cheerfulness as a Life Power (Paperback): Orison Swett Marden Cheerfulness as a Life Power (Paperback)
Orison Swett Marden
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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