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6. Paris  

Tom Sorell

in Descartes: A Very Short Introduction

6. Paris

2. The case for atheism  

Julian Baggini

in Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

2. The case for atheism

Introduction  

Robin Le Poidevin

in Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction

Introduction

5. Humanism and secularism  

Stephen Law

in Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

5. Humanism and secularism

1. What is atheism?  

Julian Baggini

in Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

1. What is atheism?

6. Against religion?  

Julian Baggini

in Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

6. Against religion?

5. What is to be Done? How to respond to nihilism  

Simon Critchley

in Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

5. What is to be Done? How to respond to nihilism

Introduction: what is humanism?  

Stephen Law

in Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

Introduction: what is humanism?

4. Humanism and morality  

Stephen Law

in Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

4. Humanism and morality

11. The Meditations  

Tom Sorell

in Descartes: A Very Short Introduction

Meditations

2. Roots  

James Como

in C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction

2. Roots In his autobiography Lewis calls his upbringing ‘nominally Christian’. Though not, I think, a deliberate misdirection, it seems to fit a self-image: there was not much to hold him back from the atheism that eventually crept in. But looking at Lewis’s family we must ask, how ‘nominal’? The happy beginning In fact the boy’s character was forged within a closely knit Christian family that worshipped, prayed, observed the pieties, and (on his mother’s side) were descended from clergymen, some of noteworthy rank. Lewis’s father, Albert (1863–1929), whose forebears were Welsh boilermakers and shipbuilders, pursued Flora Hamilton (1862–1908) for

5. Atheism in history  

Julian Baggini

in Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

5. Atheism in history

3. Is agnosticism necessary?  

Robin Le Poidevin

in Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction

3. Is agnosticism necessary?

2. Arguments for the existence of God  

Stephen Law

in Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

2. Arguments for the existence of God

2. Origins of Continental Philosophy: How to get from Kant to German Idealism  

Simon Critchley

in Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

2. Origins of Continental Philosophy: How to get from Kant to German Idealism