Život a učení na partikulárních školách v Čechách v XV. a XVI. století
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| Anotace: Pokus o zdokumentování českého školství v 15. a 16. století včetně snahy o zachycení života učitelů i žactva tehdejšího.
Virtual History
Alternatives and Counterfactuals     |
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| Anotace: What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into “imaginary time” and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions.Ferguson's brilliant 90-page introduction doubles as a manifesto on the methodology of counter-factual history. His equally masterful afterword traces the likely historical ripples that would have proceeded from the maintenance of Stuart rule in England. This breathtaking narrative gives us a convincing, detailed “alternative history” of the West—from the accession of “James III” in 1701, to a Nazi-occupied England, to a U.S. Prime Minister Kennedy who lives to complete his term.
The War of the World
History's Age of Hatred     |
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| Anotace: The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath?
Niall Ferguson re-tells the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. From the plains of Poland to the killing fields of Cambodia, he reveals how economic boom-and-bust, decaying empires and, above all, poisonous ideas of race led men to treat each other as aliens. It was an age of hatred that ended with the twilight, not the triumph, of the West. And, he shows, it could happen all over again.
'A heartbreaking, serious and thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating and dramatic' Simon Sebag Montefiore, The New York Times
'Unputdownable, controversial, compelling' Independent on Sunday
'The grenade lobbed into the cosy tea party of received wisdom' Max Hastings
'A big, bold and brilliantly belligerent book' Sunday Telegraph
'History at its most controversial ... no one can afford to overlook it' Allan Mallinson
'Hums with energy, quotable insights and pithy summaries' Observer
'Gripping' Tristram Hunt
The Great Degeneration
How Institutions Decay and Economies Die     |
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| Anotace: What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions—the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail—are degenerating. With characteristic verve and historical insight, Ferguson analyzes the causes of this stagnation and its profound consequences for the future of the West. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency—and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World     |
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| Anotace: Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. What's more, Ferguson reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, arguing that the evolution of credit and debt was as important as any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. As Ferguson traces the crisis from ancient Egypt's Memphis to today's Chongqing, he offers bold and compelling new insights into the rise--and fall--of not just money but Western power as well.
Empire
The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power     |
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| Anotace: The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarter of the world's land surface was under some form of British rule. Yet for today's generation, the British Empire seems a Victorian irrelevance. The time is ripe for a reappraisal, and in Empire, Niall Ferguson boldly recasts the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernizing forces.An important new work of synthesis and revision, Empire argues that the world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's Age of Empire. The spread of capitalism, the communications revolution, the notion of humanitarianism, and the institutions of parliamentary democracy-all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.Displaying the originality and rigor that have made him the brightest light among British historians, Ferguson shows that the story of the Empire is pregnant with lessons for today-in particular for the United States as it stands on the brink of a new era of imperial power, based once again on economic and military supremacy. A dazzling tour de force, Empire is a remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls of global empire.
Civilization
The West and the Rest     |
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| Anotace: Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.
How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.
Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
Cash Nexus
Money and Power in the Modern World 1700 - 2000     |
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| Anotace: Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the nexus, in Thomas Carlyle's phrase-between economics and politics. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. Among Ferguson's startling claims are: · Nothing has done more to transform the world economy than war, yet wars themselves do not have primarily economic causes. · The present age of economic globalization is coinciding-paradoxically-with political and military fragmentation. · Financial crises are frequently caused by unforeseen political events rather than economic fluctuations. · The relationship between prosperity and government popularity is largely illusory. · Since political and economic liberalization are not self-perpetuating, the so-called triumph of democracy worldwide may be short-lived. · A bold synthesis of political history and modern economic theory, Cash Nexus will transform the landscape of modern history and draw challenging conclusions about the prospects of both capitalism and democracy.
Oliver Matuschek
Three Lives
A biography of Stefan Zweig     |
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| Anotace: Drawing on a great wealth of newly available sources, this definitive biography recounts the eventful life of a great writer spoilt by success—a life lived in the shadow of two world wars, and which ended tragically in a suicide pact.
Matuschek examines three major phases in the life of the world-famous Austrian author—his years of apprenticeship, his years of success as a professional working writer in Salzburg, and finally his years of exile in Britain, the USA and Brazil.
Including the sort of personal detail conspicuously absent from Zweig's memoir, and incorporating newly discovered documents, Matuschek's biography offers us a privileged view into the private world of the master of psychological insight.
Zmatení citů
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| Anotace: Tématem Zweigových novel je náhle propuknuvší vášeň, která zcela převrátí život protagonistů. V našem výboru propadají nezvladatelné vášni jak muži, tak ženy – jsou posedlí dramaticky končící závislostí na druhém, ale i stejném pohlaví. Jen závěrečná Šachová novela, psaná už v emigraci, nemá sexuální, nýbrž politický podtext. Mistr psychologické prózy Stefan Zweig se narodil roku 1881 ve Vídni a zemřel vlastní rukou roku 1942 v Brazílii.
Holderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche
The Struggle with the Daemon     |
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| Anotace: "The Struggle with the Daemon" is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche--powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled spirits whose intoxicating passions drove them mad but inspired them to great works.
Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg, Austria, between the wars. He enjoyed worldwide literary fame, first as a poet and translator, then as a biographer.
Lékařka
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| Anotace: Dějištěm třetího románu Noaha Gordona, vyprávějícího o lékařské rodině Coleů, je současná Amerika. Poslední potomek rodu, Roberta J. Coleová, pokračuje v rodinné tradici a stává se významnou lékařkou. Po letech strávených v Bostonu, když její manželství skončilo a práce v nemocnici jí začíná připadat příliš odlidštěná, má pocit, že své existenci musí dát nový směr. Odchází do horského městečka uprostřed nedotčené přírody a otevře si zde soukromou praxi. S novými zkušenostmi, přáteli a bližními, jejichž osudy spoluprožívá a jimž se snaží pomoci, v prolnutí dobrého i zlého v každodenním údělu, kde je však prostor pro osobní volbu, postupně nachází nový smysl svého života.
Ranhojič
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| Anotace: Rozsáhlý román se odehrává v 11. století. Líčí bouřlivý příběh nadaného léčitele, který bojoval s nemocemi v primitivních podmínkách středověké Anglie a Persie a poznal nádheru zlatého věku arabské a židovské civilizace. Robert Jeremy Cole má zázračný dar: dokáže vycítit blízkost smrti. Je předurčen, aby léčil lidi. Vydá se do Persie, za nejslavnějším lékařem doby Ibn Sínou (Avicennou), a předstírá židovský původ, aby mohl studovat na věhlasné akademii. Když se ožení s křesťankou, vzbudí ve svém okolí nejprve pohoršení, ale nakonec si najde cestu k srdci sousedů. Podaří se mu uskutečnit, co si vždy přál: stane se lékařem, sbírá zkušenosti jako vojenský doktor, získá si pověst výborného chirurga...
Šaman
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| Anotace: Klasický western, historický román, politický thriller, román o naději a zklamání, o válce a míru, o lásce a nenávisti, o přátelství a zradě, o rozumu a víře, o demokracii a zvůli, kniha nabitá dějem, prošpikovaná jemným humorem - to vše je Šaman - další z románů Noaha Gordona, které sledují osudy skotské lékařské dynastie Coleů v průběhu dějin.
Autobiography
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| Anotace: One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works - including On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women and this autobiography - are among the crowning achievements of the age. Here he describes the pressures placed on him by his childhood, the mental breakdown he suffered as a young man, his struggle to understand a world of feelings and emotions far removed from his father's strict didacticism, and the later development of his own radical beliefs. A moving account of an extraordinary life, this great autobiography reveals a man of deep integrity, constantly searching for truth.
Immanuel Kant
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
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| Anotace: These are such moral qualities as, when a man does not possess them, he is not bound to acquire them. They are: the moral feeling, conscience, love of one's neighbour, and respect for ourselves (self-esteem). There is no obligation to have these, since they are subjective conditions of susceptibility for the notion of duty, not objective conditions of morality.
Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Practical Reason
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| Anotace: This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar of Kant's practical philosophy, presents the first new translation of the work to appear for some years, together with a substantial and lucid introduction.
Immanuel Kant
Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books
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| Anotace: This essay of Kant’s on copyright argues that the unlicensed copying of books cannot possibly be permissible, due to the fact that it assumes a consent on the part of the author which it is logically impossible for the author to give. The argument is dependent upon an assumption that the writings be commodified, for the reason why the author is unable to possibly give consent to multiple publishers is due to the author’s will – to communicate with the public – necessitating the profitability of the publisher, for, it is assumed, there is no way to communicate with the public at large without a great expense which can only be borne by a publishing firm. This is, of course, no longer a necessary assumption.
Other arguments here are also of interest: this is a foundational document in claims regarding the moral rights of authors, and Kant’s account of the connection between the communicative intent of the author and the rights resultant is of continuing importance (even though it is not often taken into account in contemporary debates, and has only a tenuous relation to contemporary copyright law); the distinction between works and acts in the “Universal Observation” (the third section of the essay) strikes us as odd today, but is worthy of consideration; his admission of the permissibility of derivative works is striking; and, strangely, the first footnote uses as a reductio ad absurdum an idea of liability which underlies what United States law today calls by the name of “contributory infringement.”
The Wisdom of Life
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| Anotace: A leading German metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) exerted an influence far beyond the hermetic world of philosophy, with adherents ranging from Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche to Leo Tolstoy and Thomas Mann. Among Schopenhauer's chief contributions to the field of philosophy are his rejection of the idealism of his contemporaries and his embrace of a practical variety of materialism. He jettisons the traditional philosophic jargon for a brisk, compelling style that employs direct terms to express the metaphysics of the will.
In The Wisdom of Life, an essay from Schopenhauer's final work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), the philosopher favors individual strength of will and independent, reasoned deliberation over the tendency to act on irrational impulses. He examines the ways in which life can be arranged to derive the highest degree of pleasure and success, presents guidelines to achieving this full and rich manner of living, and advises that even a life well lived must always aspire to grander heights. Abounding in subjects of enduring relevance, Schopenhauer's highly readable work appears here in an excellent translation.
The Art of Controversy
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| Anotace: Arthur Schopenhauer is one of the most important 19th century philosophers, most famous for his work, The World as Will and Representation. He is known for having espounced a sort of philosophical pessimism that saw life as being essentially evil and futile, but saw hope in aesthetics, sympathy for others and ascetic living.
On Human Nature
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| Anotace: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. He responded to and expanded upon Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world. His critique of Kant, his creative solutions to the problems of human experience and his explication of the limits of human knowledge are among his most important achievements. His metaphysical theory is the foundation of his influential writings on psychology, aesthetics, ethics, and politics which influenced Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud and others. He said he was influenced by the Upanishads, Immanuel Kant, and Plato. References to Eastern philosophy and religion appear frequently in his writing. He appreciated the teachings of the Buddha and even called himself a Buddhaist. He said that his philosophy could not have been conceived before these teachings were available. He called himself a Kantian. He formulated a pessimistic philosophy that gained importance and support after the failure of the German and Austrian revolutions of 1848.
Essays
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| Anotace: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. He responded to and expanded upon Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world. His critique of Kant, his creative solutions to the problems of human experience and his explication of the limits of human knowledge are among his most important achievements. His metaphysical theory is the foundation of his influential writings on psychology, aesthetics, ethics, and politics which influenced Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud and others. He said he was influenced by the Upanishads, Immanuel Kant, and Plato. References to Eastern philosophy and religion appear frequently in his writing. He appreciated the teachings of the Buddha and even called himself a Buddhaist. He said that his philosophy could not have been conceived before these teachings were available. He called himself a Kantian. He formulated a pessimistic philosophy that gained importance and support after the failure of the German and Austrian revolutions of 1848.
Tělo, duše a jejich spasení anebo kapitoly o moci, nemoci a psychosomatice
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Jazyk: čeština
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| Anotace: Spasit duši, jako chtěla středověká církev, nebo spasit tělo, jak doufá současná medicína? Jak je to vlastně s naším vztahem ke smrtelnosti? Jak se historicky vyvíjela koncepce duality duše a těla? Proč má psychosomatické pojetí v medicíně takovou obtíž se prosadit, ač by bylo mnohem levnější než technicistní medicína? Jak se psychosomatické myšlení ve starověku i novověku vlastně vyvíjelo? Co je patologické a co normální? Je nemoc opravdu to, co nechceme, nebo představuje také sociální kapitál, pro nemocné i pro lékaře? Kam se ubírá medicínské péče?
Stručné dějiny biologie
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ISBN: 978-80-200-2887-7 Cena: 200.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 22.11.2018, 21:27
| Anotace: Kniha, která zahrnuje dějiny biologie od prvopočátků do objevení struktury DNA (1953), může svou stručností a přehledností zaujmout nejen biology z profese, ale i všechny zainteresované laiky z řad vzdělanějšího čtenářstva. Text je doprovázen množstvím dobových ilustrací, přibližujících ducha a atmosféru tehdejších výzkumů a vzdělanosti a navázání biologického myšlení na dobové myšlenkové proudy. Proč se vlastně o dějiny biologie (a jakéhokoliv jiného oboru) zajímat? Co je to paradigma? Jak viděly živý svět archaické národy a staré civilizace? Jak vznikla věda v antickém Řecku? Jak v nastoupené cestě pokračoval Řím? Jak viděl živý svět evropský středověk a renesance? Jak se projevil v barokní éře descartovský obrat? Jak začínala systematika, paleontologie, jak se profilovaly jednotlivé národní školy v biologii – francouzská, anglická, německá? Jak se objevilo evoluční myšlení? Jak začínala genetika, mikrobiologie, etologie? Jakou roli hrály v myšlení o živém světě „velké“ dějiny, zejména poslední světová válka?
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Národ a dějiny jako sociologický problém
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| Anotace: Myšlení a působení Tomáše G. Masaryka je v české (i odborné) veřejnosti většinou chápáno jen v jejich dimenzi filosofické a politické. Menší pozornost se věnuje náboženské komponentě Masarykova myšlení a jeho původní „filosofická sociologie“ se vnímá nanejvýš jako omezený moment vývoje oboru na cestě k jeho dnešní vědeckosti.
Předložený výběr Masarykových sociologických a sociologizujících textů vztahujících se k problematice národa, společnosti, náboženství a práce se inspiroval pokusem o aktualizaci Masarykových myšlenek pro dnešní dobu, který pod názvem Konstruktivní sociologická teorie v roce 1994 připravili kanadští sociologové A. Woolfolk a J. B. Imber. Vybrané texty chtějí poukázat na to, že Masarykovo vnímání a řešení sociologických problémů bylo pro jeho život, myšlení i jednání důležitější, než se často zdá, a že si jeho myšlení svou kritickou a „terapeutickou“ intencí uchovává význam dodnes.
Kapitoly z dějin antropologie
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Velikost: 1,05 MB
Knižní žánr: antropologie
Jazyk: čeština
Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 22.11.2018, 21:13
| Anotace: Dějiny antropologického myšlení představují přehled minulých a současných teorií člověka a kultury, které ovlivnily antropologii a příbuzné obory. Cílem projektu je prezentace jednotlivých teorií biologické a sociokulturní antropologie formou krátkých odborných textů a historie antropologie vyučované na Masarykově univerzitě. Jednotlivé kapitoly, doplněné o sady otázek určených pro autoevaluaci znalostí, umožní studentům kvalitnější a komplexnější samostudium.
Husitská epopej VII
1472-1485 Za časů Vladislava Jagellonského     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 653
Velikost: 2,35 MB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-243-8567-9 Cena: 299.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 22.11.2018, 21:07
| Anotace: Poslední díl ságy představuje léta, kdy se českým králem stal Vladislav Jagellonský, jemuž se postupně podařilo otupit ostří nepřátelské zahraniční politiky, zvláště té papežovy. Nakonec byl z Čech sejmut cejch kacířství, neboť po desetiletích bojů byl utrakvismus uznán všemi církevními autoritami. Husitská epopej tak dospěla ke svému závěru.
Jenže místo aby se domácí poměry uklidnily, začaly doutnat nové politické i sociální konflikty. Postupně umírají starší členové rodu Prokopů a na jejich místo nastupují jejich potomci. Ti však o ideálech svých rodičů vědí málo a hledají si svůj svět. Svět středověké víry nahrazuje svobodomyslná renesance. Osudy husitských generací rodu se uzavírají.
Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
Stáhnout e-knihu     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 66
Velikost: 69 kB
Knižní žánr: filozofie
Jazyk: angličtina
Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 26.10.2018, 23:12
| Anotace: This authoritative edition of Cicero's Treatises on Friendship and Old Age features the respected translation of E. S. Shuckburgh.
Written in the second century A.D., these writings encapsulate the wisdom and ability possessed by their author. Already well into maturity, it is here that the accumulated experience of a man who had - in an illustrious career of public service in the Roman Empire - seen and known all manner of events and people in his bustling society.
In the first treatise, the attributes important to friendship are identified by Cicero as he discusses the qualities a good friend should have. There are several intractable virtues of friendship, which must be preserved lest the union be damaged. Cicero's best friend Scipio had recently died at the time of writing - as such, what we may read here was written as a means for the author to cope with a loss he felt difficult.
The second treatise meanwhile contains contemplation upon what it is to be old. Writing so as to echo the much esteemed Cato the Elder, the beauty and profundity of the words in this essay are significant. The clear and plain yet highly eloquent words elaborate on aging and the concerns that arrive with it. The text has been much quoted, and for centuries after its publication in Ancient Rome it was used in Latin tutelage.
Cicero was among the most lauded of Roman officials to have ever lived. His writings are in themselves an authoritative historical source both of Roman civic life and thinking on a variety of subjects and events, with his treatises exemplifying the clarity with which he wrote.
God is not Great
How Religion Poisons Everything     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 276
Velikost: 310 kB
Knižní žánr: religionistika a teologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-446-19534-8 Cena: 11.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 26.10.2018, 23:09
| Anotace: In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry
of the double helix.
Is Christianity Good for the World?
A Debate     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 58
Velikost: 100 kB
Knižní žánr: religionistika a teologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-59128-053-8 Cena: 7.69 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 26.10.2018, 23:05
| Anotace: Put two contrarians together and shake well. -Christianity Today The gloves come off in this electric exchange, originally hosted by Christianity Today, as leading atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of God Is Not Great) and Christian apologist Douglas Wilson (author of Letter from a Christian Citizen) go head-to-head on this divisive question. The result is entertaining and provocative-a glimpse into the ongoing debate.
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