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Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers — Deists, Atheists, and Critics of Religions, from Enlightenment and more: Half-Hours with the Freethinkers

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers — Deists, Atheists, and Critics of Religions, from Enlightenment and more: Half-Hours with the Freethinkers

Charles Bradlaugh
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In these pages, appearing under the title of "Half-Hours with the Freethinkers" in 1871 and under the title of "Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers" in 1877, are collected in a readable form an abstract of the lives and doctrines of some of those who have stood foremost in the ranks of Free-thought — been the majority of them part of the Enlightenment and classical liberalism movements that shaped modern Western Civilization. Sure there are other Enlightenment thinkers and classic liberals who were freethinkers and are not in this collection, but the criteria of selection of the authors has been to make a list of the more active Free-thought advocates who became the intellectual and moral foundations of the secularist movement of the 19th century.In this book you can read the intellectual biographies Thomas Hobbes, Lord Bolingbroke, Condorcet, Spinoza, Anthony Collins, Descartes, Voltaire, John Toland, Compte De Volney, Charles Blount, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claud Arian Helvetius, Frances W. D'arusmont, Epicurus, Zeno - The Stoic, Matthew Tindal, David Hume, Thomas Burnet, Thomas Paine, Baptiste De Mirabaud, Baron D'holbach, Robert Taylor, Joseph Barker.Freethinkers endeavor to raise men's minds from superstition and bigotry, and place before them a knowledge of the real using their minds. The terms Free-thought and freethinker first came into use in the 17th century in order to refer to people who inquired into the basis of traditional, revealed, and dogmatic beliefs which were often accepted unquestioningly. Freethinking is closely linked with the philosophies of deism , atheism, agnosticism, humanism, with the politics of secularism and anti-clericalism, and with religious critique in general. The Oxford English Dictionary defines freethinking as, "The free exercise of reason in matters of religious belief, unrestrained by deference to authority; the adoption of the principles of a free-thinker."Charles Bradlaugh was an English liberal politician, a secular laws activist and an atheist. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866.John Watts was an English publisher and a secularist activist. In 1864, with his brother Charles Watts, formed a publishing business, Watts & Co., dedicated to promote freethinking, secularism and republicanism.
Language
English
Pages
333
Format
Hardcover
Release
April 29, 2022
ISBN 13
9798813421105

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers — Deists, Atheists, and Critics of Religions, from Enlightenment and more: Half-Hours with the Freethinkers

Charles Bradlaugh
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In these pages, appearing under the title of "Half-Hours with the Freethinkers" in 1871 and under the title of "Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers" in 1877, are collected in a readable form an abstract of the lives and doctrines of some of those who have stood foremost in the ranks of Free-thought — been the majority of them part of the Enlightenment and classical liberalism movements that shaped modern Western Civilization. Sure there are other Enlightenment thinkers and classic liberals who were freethinkers and are not in this collection, but the criteria of selection of the authors has been to make a list of the more active Free-thought advocates who became the intellectual and moral foundations of the secularist movement of the 19th century.In this book you can read the intellectual biographies Thomas Hobbes, Lord Bolingbroke, Condorcet, Spinoza, Anthony Collins, Descartes, Voltaire, John Toland, Compte De Volney, Charles Blount, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claud Arian Helvetius, Frances W. D'arusmont, Epicurus, Zeno - The Stoic, Matthew Tindal, David Hume, Thomas Burnet, Thomas Paine, Baptiste De Mirabaud, Baron D'holbach, Robert Taylor, Joseph Barker.Freethinkers endeavor to raise men's minds from superstition and bigotry, and place before them a knowledge of the real using their minds. The terms Free-thought and freethinker first came into use in the 17th century in order to refer to people who inquired into the basis of traditional, revealed, and dogmatic beliefs which were often accepted unquestioningly. Freethinking is closely linked with the philosophies of deism , atheism, agnosticism, humanism, with the politics of secularism and anti-clericalism, and with religious critique in general. The Oxford English Dictionary defines freethinking as, "The free exercise of reason in matters of religious belief, unrestrained by deference to authority; the adoption of the principles of a free-thinker."Charles Bradlaugh was an English liberal politician, a secular laws activist and an atheist. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866.John Watts was an English publisher and a secularist activist. In 1864, with his brother Charles Watts, formed a publishing business, Watts & Co., dedicated to promote freethinking, secularism and republicanism.
Language
English
Pages
333
Format
Hardcover
Release
April 29, 2022
ISBN 13
9798813421105

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