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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Western Atheism: A Short HistoryUser Review - Steven Dunn - GoodreadsI do not know enough about the author to determine whether or not he himself is an atheist (Promotheus Publishing is known for such), but this exposition of secular thought is really good. I enjoyed it. He also deals nicely with the accusation that the early Ionian Philosophers were naturalists. Read full review Review: Western Atheism: A Short HistoryUser Review - Mark - GoodreadsWestern Atheism: A Short History was first published in 1971. This edition is a republication by one of my favorite publishers, Prometheus Books. Although there are many books and collections on ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesA. J. Ayer agnostic agnosticism Altizer Anaxagoras Anaximander argues argument Aristotle Ayer Buckley called Carneades cause Christian Classical conception concerned conclusion Cosmological Argument criticism culture Cupitt D'Holbach debate Democritus divine doctrine Drachmann early eighteenth century Epicurus Essays established Euhemerism existence experience explanation F. M. Cornford fact faith and reason Feuerbach Freud God's gods Greek Guthrie Harmondsworth history of atheism Hobbes human Humanists Hume influence intellectual Ionian Jaeger Kant later laws Leff logic London look Lucretius man's Marx means Mediaeval metaphysical mind modern moral mythological naturalistic nature Nietzsche nineteenth century Ockham origin Oxford Pagan Penguin Books period philos philosophical Plato position Pyrrho regard religious belief Renaissance says scepticism scientific Scotus secular seventeenth century Sextus Empiricus sixteenth Socrates Spinoza Stoic supernatural Thales theistic theologian theology things thinkers thought tion traditional religion truth unbelief understanding Voltaire Willey writes Xenophanes Zeus Bibliographic information
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