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UNINA9910787642503321 |
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Autore |
Henderson Harold |
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Titolo |
Catalyst for Controversy [[electronic resource] ] : Paul Carus of Open Court |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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381.450020973 |
381/.45002/0973 |
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Soggetti |
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Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 |
Open Court Publishing Company -- History |
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History |
Philosophers -- United States -- Biography |
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography |
Publishers and publishing --Illinois --La Salle -- History |
Religious literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History |
United States -- Intellectual life |
United States Intellectual life |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Frontispiece; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Paul Carus's Early Life; 2. The Philosophy of Monism and Meliorism; 3. Open Court's First Year; 4. The Religion of Science; 5. The World's Parliament of Religions; Gallery; 6. Looking Toward the East; 7. Mach; 8. Peirce; 9. Carus's Later Philosophy; 10. The Great War; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""I am not a common atheist; I am an atheist who loves God.""-Paul Carus, ""The God of Science,"" 1904In the summer of 1880, while teaching at the military academy of the Royal Corps of Cadets of Saxony in Dresden, Paul Carus published a brief pamphlet denying the literal truth of scripture and describing the Bible as a great literary work comparable to the Odyssey.This unremarkable document was Carus's first step in a wide-ranging intellectual voyage in which he traversed |
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philosophy, science, religion, mathematics, history, music, literature, and socia |
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