Introduction: Toward a New Enlightenment; One: Ethics and the Planetary Society; Introduction to Part One; 1: Humanist Ethics: Eating the Forbidden Fruit; 2: The Relevance of Science to Ethics; 3: The Twenty-First Century and Beyond: The Need for a New Global Ethic and a Declaration of Interdependence; Two: Democratic Ideas, Pluralism; Introduction to Part Two; 4: Humanism and the Freedom of the Individual; 5: Democracy without Theology: Dialogue with Evangelists; 6: Excellence and Irrelevance: Democracy and the Higher Learning; 7: Misuses of Civil Disobedience; 8: The Limits of Tolerance; 9: Beyond Multiculturalism: Toward a Humanist Universalism; 10: Will Secularism Survive?; Three: Skepticism: Science and Antiscience; Introduction to Part Three; 11: The Scientific Attitude vs. Antiscience and Pseudoscience; 12: Antireason; 13: Science and the Paranormal: An Overview; 14: Skepticism about the Paranormal: Legitimate and Illegitimate; Four: Atheism, Humanism, and Religion; Introduction to Part Four; 15: Humanism and the Open Society: Dialogues with Marxists and Roman Catholics; 16: Militant Atheism vs. Freedom of Conscience: Reflections on the Moscow Atheist/Humanist Dialogue; 17: Humanism and Atheism: Exploring Similarities and Differences; 18: The Church under Siege: Reflections on the Vatican/Humanist Dialogue; 19: The Argument from Revelation Reexamined; 20: Is Life Meaningful in a Universe without God?; 21: Finding a Common Ground between Believers and Unbelievers; 22: The Growth of Fundamentalism Worldwide: A Humanist Response; Five: Paul Kurtz in Person and in Action; Introduction to Part Five; 23: In Defense of Eupraxophy; 24: Promethean Love: Unbound; 25: On Nearly Dying-Unceremoniously and Unexpectedly; 26: The Case for Euthanasia: A Humanistic Perspective; Six: On the Barricades; Introduction to Part Six; 27: Does Faith Healing Work?; 28: Faith Healing: Miracle or Hoax?; 29: The New Inquisition in the Schools; 30: Bigfoot on the Loose; or, How to Create a Legend; 31: A Case Study of the West Pittston "Haunted" House; 32: Near-Death Experiences: A Skeptical View
Paul Kurtz
-The editors of this volume . . . have collected some of Kurtz's most significant essays; these provide an interesting and enlightening opportunity to understand Kurtz's work. . . . Bullough and Madigan have made an important contribution to secular humanism as a result of this book. It is an essential read.-
--Michael J. Rockler, Free Inquiry
-An interesting and useful collection of significant writings on humanism and the paranormal.-
--Gordon Stein, The American Rationalist
-This book is such a compendium of Humanist wisdom that I consider that all Humanist Societies should have a copy.-
--James Gerrand, Australian Humanist
"The editors of this volume . . . have collected some of Kurtz's most significant essays; these provide an interesting and enlightening opportunity to understand Kurtz's work. . . . Bullough and Madigan have made an important contribution to secular humanism as a result of this book. It is an essential read."
--Michael J. Rockler, Free Inquiry
"An interesting and useful collection of significant writings on humanism and the paranormal."
--Gordon Stein, The American Rationalist
"This book is such a compendium of Humanist wisdom that I consider that all Humanist Societies should have a copy."
--James Gerrand, Australian Humanist
"The editors of this volume . . . have collected some of Kurtz's most significant essays; these provide an interesting and enlightening opportunity to understand Kurtz's work. . . . Bullough and Madigan have made an important contribution to secular humanism as a result of this book. It is an essential read." --Michael J. Rockler, Free Inquiry "An interesting and useful collection of significant writings on humanism and the paranormal." --Gordon Stein, The American Rationalist "This book is such a compendium of Humanist wisdom that I consider that all Humanist Societies should have a copy." --James Gerrand, Australian Humanist
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