How To Be An Agnostic

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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
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