How To Be An Agnostic
Introduction boulder of his humanity to the top of a mountain, hoping to lend it the authority of a high place, only to see it r ...
How To Be An Agnostic great myths which inform their traditions have lost weight. Can they speak to us still, my nervous Christi ...
Introduction I was neither a believer nor a non-believer – a doubting Thomas, doubting Richard Dawkins combo. My suspicion is th ...
How To Be An Agnostic of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. H ...
Introduction conviction that nothing of ultimate things can be known with certainty – has been subsumed in the weak sense of som ...
How To Be An Agnostic side of ourselves? How are we to talk about transcendence? Can we fi ll the God-shaped hole? More broadly, ...
Introduction of not being able to become a Christian, out of a kind of faithful humility. She wrote: ‘For it seemed to me certai ...
How To Be An Agnostic quiet sense of wonder. The metaphor of warfare, to characterise the relationship between science and relig ...
Introduction Where and how can he fi nd truth? Phaedrus admires the orator Lysias, thinking him a great speech-maker and writer. ...
Socrates’ Quest: The Agnostic Spirit I am very conscious that I am not wise at all. Socrates If you had to choose a site for the ...
Illus. 1.1: The ruins of Delphi, high on the slopes of the ‘Shining Cliffs’. ...
How To Be An Agnostic valley fl ooded with olive trees that appear to fl ow westward onto the lowlands and, in the distance, the ...
Socrates’ Quest universe, his idea of philosophy was not of inevitable progress towards the bright stars of certainty and illumi ...
How To Be An Agnostic reputation were nearly the most defi cient.’ Moreover, mixed in with a growing distaste for the self-right ...
Socrates’ Quest The wisdom of politicians and poets was found wanting. Socrates next wondered whether the oracle was referring t ...
How To Be An Agnostic much which prevents knowledge, the unclarity of the subject and the shortness of human life. Protagoras ve ...
Socrates’ Quest different way to Protagoras again. It seems he thought that a regard for religious practice was a good thing for ...
How To Be An Agnostic The creed caused him great diffi culties for he was very good at undermining the security and wounding the ...
Socrates’ Quest against their elders and betters. That too was a serious charge in a city that hoped for so much from the next g ...
How To Be An Agnostic of it. Like Romeo who gasps, ‘Did my heart love ’till now?’, at the merest thought of Juliet, Socrates lon ...
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