Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient WorldKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10. nóv. 2015 - 304 síður How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. |
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... Greece: their ideas, their innovations, their battles, their persecution. It is a work of history, not of ... cultural and religious pluralism, and free debate, are indispensable to the good life. A Dialogue THERSANDER: The gods are dead ...
... Greek sources. If the terms of the debate seem arrestingly modern, that is no coincidence. We are still, in the ... cultures who have resisted belief in the divine.1 It is of course undeniable that religion has dominated human culture as ...
... Greece the first philosophical articulations of skepticism toward traditional religion, in the writings of Xenophanes of Colophon (ca. 570w 475 BC). But the exact dates do not greatly affect my point, which is rather a rhetorical one ...
... Greek than in all other ancient languages (including Latin) put together ... culture, art, stone inscription, and papyrus that Greece generated over a ... Greek historians have the outtakes and the alternative versions. Greek history ...
... Greeks have since antiquity called Hellasxis a peninsula jutting down ... Greece is a country of natural borders: mountain ranges, valleys, gulfs, rivers ... culture collapsed rapidly, perhaps thanks to ecological disaster in the form ...
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Battling the Gods | |
The Material Cosmos | |
Cause and Effect | |
Concerning the Gods I Cannot Know | |
Playing the Gods | |
Plato and the Atheists | |
Gods and Kings | |
Philosophical Atheism | |
Epicurus Theomakhos | |
With Gods on Our Side | |
Virtual Networks | |
Acknowledgments | |
Atheism on Trial | |