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Book

Good without God : what a billion nonreligious people do believe

Call Number

  • 171.2 E646 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : William Morrow, c2009.

Physical Description

xviii, 250 p. : 24 cm.

Summary

Author Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard, offers a world view for nonbelievers that dispenses with the hostility and intolerance of religion prevalent in many bestsellers. Epstein provides a constructive, challenging response to these manifestos by getting to the heart of Humanism and its positive belief in tolerance, community, morality, and good without having to rely on the guidance of a higher being.

Contents

  • Can we be good without God?
  • A brief history of goodness without God, or a short campus tour of the university of humanism
  • Why be good without a God? : purpose and The plague
  • Good without God : a how-to guide to the ethics of humanism
  • Pluralism : can you be good with God?
  • Good without God in community : the heart of humanism
  • Postscript: Humanism and its aspirations.

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