How To Be An Agnostic

Index

Plato 29, 34, 47, 63, 122, 135,
136, 185, 202–15, 220, 237,
254
Academy of 206–7, 208 ,
209–10, 212–13, 215, 225
Apology 27
Euthyphro 35–7, 63, 145
Gorgias 211–12
Laws 26
Lysis 29, 31, 204
Phaedo 88–9, 212
Phaedrus 18–19, 34, 206
Republic 207, 210, 254
Seventh Letter 203, 205–6,
208–9
Symposium 40, 204, 205, 243–5
Timaeus 26
Plotinus 245
pluralism 115–16
Plutarch 30
poets, Greek 24
Polkingthorne, John 71–2, 82
Popper, Karl 81, 124, 221, 230,
231
positivism 116
postmodernism 239
Potter, Denis 189
prayer 161, 182–4, 233–4
Price, Anthony 135
Priestley, Joseph 51
probabilities 251–4
Protagoras 25–6, 28
Proust, Marcel 256
psychoanalysis 111, 239, 257
psychology 111
Putnam, Hilary 82
Pyrrho of Elis 228
Pyrrhonism 213–14, 217
Pythagoras 85

Quakerism 172
quantum mechanics 65–6, 67,
71, 72, 80, 82, 86, 145

questioning, practice of 226

rationalism 10, 25

Rees, Martin 58–9

Reformation 161, 162

relativism 163–4

‘religion without religion’ 169,

224

religious imagination 5, 17, 19,

153, 201, 225, 229

resurrection 238

Ricard, Matthieu 66

rights 10, 100

Romantics 256

Roth, Philip 140

Rothko, Mark 118–19

Ruskin, John 248

Russell, Bertrand 43–6, 151

St Cuthbert’s Church 137–8

Saunders, E.P. 242

scepticism, ancient 201, 228

Schama, Simon 234

Schleiermacher, Friedrich 5, 119,

153

Schopenhauer, Arthur 49, 220–1

science 9, 10, 139

agnostic spirit and 17, 18,

48–84, 156

as bad religion 11

and ethics 85–106

limits of 79–82

metaphors in 91–3

as naturalism 93

paradigm shift 80–1

as scientism 93

spirituality of 53–5, 71, 82,

136

worldview of 17, 55, 90, 91,

106, 162, 170, 258–9

scientifi c revolution 115, 156,

162, 163, 170, 200

secularisation 112–16