Author: Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby
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Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Author: David Carnegie A. Agnew
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Walter William Skeat
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Author: Charles A. O'Connor
Publisher: New Acdemia+ORM
ISBN: 1955835268
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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A compelling analysis of how World War I spurred the rise of atheism and the subsequent effect on Western theology, philosophy, literature, and art. The catastrophic Great War left humanity in a world no longer trustworthy and reassuring but seemingly meaningless and indifferent. Instead of redressing humanity’s cosmic alienation, postwar Western culture abandoned its concern for cosmic meaning, lost its confidence in human reason, and enabled the scientific worldview of neo-Darwinian materialism to emerge and eventually dominate the Western mind. According to the proponents of that worldview, science is the only source of genuine truth, nature is the product of a blind evolutionary process, and reality at bottom is just physics and chemistry. Thus, God is dead and continued belief in a transcendently purposeful universe is intellectually indefensible and either disingenuous or delusional. By turning away from the eternal questions about the nature of reality, Western culture effectively ceded unwarranted credibility and prominence to neo-Darwinian materialism, including its recently strident New Atheism. “O’Connor revisits the 20th century’s journey from Nietzsche’s declaration of the ‘death of God’ to the rise of materialism as the dominant worldview of western intelligentsia. We live in a world that has largely expelled both mind and meaning from the citadels of serious intellectual pursuit, and O’Connor’s book is a fascinating and scholarly expedition into the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of that troubling development.” —Carter Phipps, author of Evolutionaries “I found this topic to be top-rate. The book is well researched and conceived, nicely narrated and analyzed, and an original body of inquiry into a challenging, fascinating intellectual tradition.” —Ronald M. Johnson, Professor Emeritus of American History, Georgetown University

Author: James Westfall Thompson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020244902
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book provides a detailed and insightful account of the religious wars that rocked France in the second half of the sixteenth century, and had a profound impact on the politics, society, and culture of early modern Europe. The author examines the complex interplay between religious, political, and social forces that drove the conflict, as well as the role played by key figures like the Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny, Queen Mother Catherine de Medici, and the Spanish King Philip II. This book is a seminal work in the field of French and European history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: John Hill Burton
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Francis Parkman
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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