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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Toward a New Enlightenment | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Ethics and the Planetary Society | |
| Introduction to Part One | 13 | |
| 1 | Humanist Ethics: Eating the Forbidden Fruit | 15 |
| 2 | The Relevance of Science to Ethics | 25 |
| 3 | The Twenty-First Century and Beyond: The Need for a New Global Ethic and a Declaration of Interdependence | 35 |
| Pt. 2 | Democratic Ideas, Pluralism | |
| Introduction to Part Two | 47 | |
| 4 | Humanism and the Freedom of the Individual | 49 |
| 5 | Democracy without Theology: Dialogue with Evangelists | 63 |
| 6 | Excellence and Irrelevance: Democracy and the Higher Learning | 73 |
| 7 | Misuses of Civil Disobedience | 87 |
| 8 | The Limits of Tolerance | 99 |
| 9 | Beyond Multiculturalism: Toward a Humanist Universalism | 105 |
| 10 | Will Secularism Survive? | 109 |
| Pt. 3 | Skepticism: Science and Antiscience | |
| Introduction to Part Three | 119 | |
| 11 | The Scientific Attitude vs. Antiscience and Pseudoscience | 123 |
| 12 | Antireason | 135 |
| 13 | Science and the Paranormal: An Overview | 143 |
| 14 | Skepticism about the Paranormal: Legitimate and Illegitimate | 151 |
| Pt. 4 | Atheism, Humanism, and Religion | |
| Introduction to Part Four | 165 | |
| 15 | Humanism and the Open Society: Dialogues with Marxists and Roman Catholics | 167 |
| 16 | Militant Atheism vs. Freedom of Conscience: Reflections on the Moscow Atheist/Humanist Dialogue | 171 |
| 17 | Humanism and Atheism: Exploring Similarities and Differences | 189 |
| 18 | The Church under Siege: Reflections on the Vatican/Humanist Dialogue | 199 |
| 19 | The Argument from Revelation Reexamined | 217 |
| 20 | Is Life Meaningful in a Universe without God? | 233 |
| 21 | Finding a Common Ground between Believers and Unbelievers | 247 |
| 22 | The Growth of Fundamentalism Worldwide: A Humanist Response | 253 |
| Pt. 5 | Paul Kurtz in Person and in Action | |
| Introduction to Part Five | 269 | |
| 23 | In Defense of Eupraxophy | 271 |
| 24 | Promethean Love: Unbound | 279 |
| 25 | On Nearly Dying - Unceremoniously and Unexpectedly | 293 |
| 26 | The Case for Euthanasia: A Humanistic Perspective | 297 |
| Pt. 6 | On the Barricades | |
| Introduction to Part Six | 307 | |
| 27 | Does Faith Healing Work? | 309 |
| 28 | Faith Healing: Miracle or Hoax? | 321 |
| 29 | The New Inquisition in the Schools | 327 |
| 30 | Bigfoot on the Loose; or, How to Create a Legend | 333 |
| 31 | A Case Study of the West Pittston Haunted House | 339 |
| 32 | Near-Death Experiences: A Skeptical View | 349 |
| Selected List of Publications by Paul Kurtz | 353 | |
| Index | 389 |
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Carl Jackson
reviewed Toward a new enlightenment on May 18, 2012
Toward a new enlightenment
Jacob sees the pantheism of the 'radical enlightenment' arising during the English revolutions of the 17th century, and inspired by Giordano Bruno's vital materialism. Carried by such people as Toland to the Netherlands in the early 18th century they served to inspire radical materialist ideas such as those of d'Holbach later in that century. At the same time a 'moderate' Enlightenment, which gave a role to God, either Christian or deist, and was inspired by Newton became very influential in France through such figures as Voltaire. At least this is my understanding of the general outline of one of Jacob's themes. In addition she has much to say about Freemasonry and secret societies that supported the 'radical Enlightenment.' This was of less interest to me. While this is a very rich and complex book, I was pleased with the clarity with which Jacob writes. I have read about this period and some of its ideas, but I feel that I have a significantly clearer understanding after reading portions of this book.
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