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Autore |
Walters Kerry S |
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Titolo |
Atheism : a guide for the perplexed / / Kerry Walters |
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New York, : Continuum, c2010 |
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1-282-87664-3 |
9786612876646 |
1-4411-8794-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Collana |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-187) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: What This Book Isn't and What It Is; Chapter 1 What Is Atheism?; Chapter 2 The Atheist Worldview; Chapter 3 Refuting Theistic "Proofs"; Chapter 4 Why God Can't Exist; Chapter 5 The Natural History of Religion; Chapter 6 A Godless Morality; Chapter 7 Sisyphus' Question; Chapter 8 An Atheist Spirituality?; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Atheism: A Guide for the Perplexed moves beyond the polemics to present an overview of atheism that is rigorous but still accessible to the educated layperson as well as to the undergraduate student in philosophy and theology. After a preliminary investigation of what atheists mean when they use the words "atheism" and "God"GÇöa much more complex investigation than one might suspectGÇöthe book explores the differences and similarities between "old" and "new" atheism; places atheism of either variety in context by examining the naturalistic worldview that grounds it; provides a short historical |
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