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An Agnostic's Apology - And Other Essays (Paperback)
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An Agnostic's Apology - And Other Essays (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
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The term 'agnostic' was probably coined by T. H. Huxley during a
speech to the Metaphysical Society in 1869. From the Greek
'agnostos', 'unknown', it was derived from St Paul's mention of an
Athenian altar inscribed 'to the unknown god'. With these overtones
of ancient philosophy, agnosticism became the tag of an emergent
school of thought which posited that the existence of anything
beyond the material and measurable should be considered unknowable.
In this collection of seven essays, first published as one volume
in 1893, Leslie Stephen (1832 1904) makes a study of the 'unknown'.
Across the essays, he presents arguments for the intrinsic
agnosticism of many of the basic tenets of deism, explores the way
in which humans construct dreams and realities, and examines the
relationship between physics and philosophy. This readable and
entertaining book will be of interest to students of both theology
and philosophy.
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