Essays in Freethinking

Religion & Spirituality

Cohen, Chapman

Religious Studies

Amer Atheist Pr

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Socialism, Atheism And Christianity (1908)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

A Grammar of Freethought

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

History

World

BiblioLife

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Determinism Or Free Will

Determinism or Free Will

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Chapman Cohen (1868-1954) was an English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer. He was the elder son of Enoch Cohen, a Jewish confectioner, and his wife, Deborah (nee Barnett). He attended a local elementary school but was otherwise self-educated. He had read Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, and Plato by the time he was eighteen. He moved to London in 1889. He soon joined the National Secular Society and was in demand as a lecturer, delivering over 200 lectures a year. He was elected vice-president in 1895. In 1898 he became assistant editor of G. W. Foote's Freethinker, and after Foote's death in 1915 he was appointed both editor of the Freethinker and president of the National Secular Society. A fine organiser, Cohen built up the society in the inter-war years, but many members felt he had stayed on too long, and in 1949 he was persuaded to resign as president. He was editor of the Freethinker until 1951. His works include: Determinism; or, Free-Will? (1919), Religion and Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development (1919) and Theism; or, Atheism: The Great Alternative (1921).

Theism; Or, Atheism: The Great Alternative

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Dodo Pr

It is not, then, because I believe the question of the existence of God to be of intrinsic importance that an examination of its validity is here undertaken. Its importance to-day is of a purely contingent character. The valid ground for now discussing its truth is that it is at present allowed to obstruct the practical conduct of life. And under similar circumstances it would be important to investigate the historical accuracy of Old Mother Hubbard or Jack and the Beanstalk. Any belief, no matter what its nature, must be dealt with as a fact of some social importance, so long as it is believed by large numbers to be essential to the right ordering of life. Whether true or false, beliefs are facts mental and social facts, and the scheme of things which leaves them out of account is making a blunder of the most serious kind.

Theism or Atheism - The Great Alternative

Biographies & Memoirs

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Theism or Atheism is a religious studies classic text by Chapman Cohen. Shrouded in the cloak of philosophy, the question of the existence of God continues to attract attention, and, I may add, to command more respect than it deserves. For it is only by a subterfuge that it assumes the rank of philosophy. "God" enters into philosophy only when it is beginning to lose caste in its proper home, and then in its new environment it undergoes such a transformation as to contain very little likeness to its former, and proper, self.

Theism or Atheism

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