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Agnosticism:     more books (100)

Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Robin Le Poidevin, 2010-10-28 Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays (Great Mind Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1992-08 Agnosticism by Robert Flint, 2010-08-09 The Way out of Agnosticism; or, The Philosophy of free Religion by Francis Abbot Ellingwood, 2009-11-26 Subjectivity and Irreligion: Atheism and Agnosticism in Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) by Matthew Alun Ray, 2004-02 The Way Out Of Agnosticism Or, The Philosophy Of Free Religion by Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 2010-05-22 Criteria of Diverse Kinds of Truth as Opposed to Agnosticism by James McCosh, 2009-05-13 W.E.B. Du Bois: Toward Agnosticism, 1868-1934 by Brian L. Johnson, 2008-09-05 Naturalism and Agnosticismthe Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen in the by James Ward, 2009-10-27 Christianity and agnosticism, a controversy by Henry Wace, 2010-08-09 Way Out of Agnosticism: Of, the Philosophy of Free Religion (Philosophy in America) by Francis C. Abbot, 1980-06 Agnosticism by Thomson Jay Hudson, 2010-05-23 Theism Or Agnosticism, an Essay by Brownlow Maitland, 2010-03-07 Christianity or agnosticism? by Louis Picard, 1899

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1. Agnosticism/Atheism
   Select, annotated links on topics of interest to atheists and nonbelievers.Category Society Religion and Spirituality AtheismThe starting place for exploring not only agnosticism and atheism, but also skepticism,humanism, objectivism, religious critique and comparative religions.  
   http://atheism.about.com/

2. AGNOSTICISM:
   Read quotes from author Thomas Huxley about how he came to coin the term "agnostic." More on Huxley and the definition of agnosticism  
   http://www.religioustolerance.org/agnostic.htm
   
   Extractions: AGNOSTICISM: UNCERTAINTY ABOUT WHETHER GOD EXISTS Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. Agnosticism is a concept, not a religion. It is a belief related to the existence or non-existence of God. An agnostic is a person who feels that God's existence can neither be proved nor disproved, on the basis of current evidence. Agnostics note that theologians and philosophers have tried to to prove, for millennia, either that God exists or that God does not exist. None have convincingly succeeded. Are they Theists? No, because Agnostics do not believe in a God, or a Goddess, or in multiple Gods, or multiple Goddesses or in a pantheon of Gods and Goddesses. However, some Agnostics consider themselves to be Atheists . That is because the term " Atheist " has two meanings: A person who positively believes that no God(s) or Goddess(es) exists. E. Haldeman-Julius suggests that " The atheist perceives that history, in every branch of science, in the plainly observable realities of life and in the processes of common sense there is no place for the picture of a God; the idea doesn't fit in with a calmly reasoned and realistic view of life. The atheist, therefore denies the assumptions of theism because they are mere assumptions and are not proved; whereas the contrary evidences, against the idea of theism, are overwhelming. "

3. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Agnosticism
   Visit the New Advent website for the Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia and more. (2) agnosticism, as a general term in philosophy, is frequently employed to express any conscious attitude of doubt,  
   http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01215c.htm
   
   Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... A > Agnosticism A B C D ... Z a philosophical theory of the limitations of knowledge, professing doubt of or disbelief in some or all of the powers of knowing possessed by the human mind. I. EXPOSITION (1) The word Agnostic (Greek a, privative + GNOSTICISM. (2) Agnosticism, as a general term in philosophy, is frequently employed to express any conscious attitude of doubt, denial, or disbelief, towards some, or even all, of man's powers of knowing or objects of knowledge. The meaning of the term may accordingly vary, like that of the other word "Scepticism", which it has largely replaced, from partial to complete Agnosticism; it may be our knowledge of the world, of the self, or of God , that is questioned; or it may be the knowableness of all three, and the validity of any knowledge, whether of sense or intellect, science or philosophy, history, ethics, religion. The variable element in the term is the group of objects, or propositions, to which it refers; the invariable element, the attitude of learned ignorance it always implies towards the possibility of acquiring knowledge. (3) Agnosticism, as a term of modern philosophy, is used to describe those theories of the limitations of human knowledge which deny the constitutional ability of the mind to know reality and conclude with the recognition of an intrinsically Unknowable. The existence of "absolute reality" is usually affirmed while, at the same time, its knowableness is denied.

4. Agnosticism FAQ: What Is Agnosticism?
   Definition and history of the concept of agnosticism, along with an argument that agnosticism not Category Society Religion and Spirituality agnosticismagnosticism what is it, what isn't it? How did Huxley originally defineagnosticism? What did Spencer say the definition of agnosticism is?  
   http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/blfaq_agnosticism.htm

5. Agnosticism
   A personal home page on agnosticismCategory Society Religion and Spirituality Personal Pages In England's Victorian thier religion *** is similar to our agnosticism today. Newusers sign up! Get more information on agnosticism, and have news, ect.  
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   Extractions: Agnostics Only Agnostisism The word agnost means `not knowing'. An agnost is someone saying that he does not know, and is usually used in the context of knowledge about God, or the nature of reality. Agnosticism is the believe that it is impossible to know certain things for sure. There are different reasons for which one does not know.

6. The Atheism Web: Huxley On Agnosticism
   Thomas Huxley describes how he came to originate the term 'agnostic'.  
   http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/sn-huxley.html
   
   Extractions: The Atheism Web Huxley describes how he came to originate the term 'agnostic' as follows: When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; a Christian or a freethinker, I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until at last I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure that they had attained a certain "gnosis" had more or less successfully solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. And, with Hume and Kant on my side, I could not think myself presumptuous in holding fast by that opinion. [...] So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of "agnostic". It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the "gnostic" of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail, like the other foxes. [Quoted in " Encylopaedia of Religion and Ethics ", 1908, edited by James Hastings MA DD]

7. Dialogue On Materialist Evolutionary Theory & Intelligent Design
   A wideranging debate between an agnostic and a Catholic. Covers many areas of disagreement.  
   http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ355.HTM
   
   Extractions: XV. Catholics and Evolution / Final Thoughts This (ultimately acrimonious) exchange took place on the "Straight Dope" Message board (apparently some sort of agnostic or "rationalist" outlet), and can be found at: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2605053#post2605053

8. NandoNext: Why I Don't Buy Agnosticism
   Brian Stanley responds to agnosticism as a Christian, and claims it is an attempt to avoid the issue.  
   http://www.nandonext.com/issues/agnosticism.html
   
   Extractions: ISSUES R ecently, Andy Johnson, a graduate student in philosophy and a columnist for The Daily Tar Heel, wrote a column in which he took issue with the beliefs and doctrines of Christianity. He once called himself a Christian but became an agnostic after he decided that Christianity was irrational. This column, and a follow-up , evoked a wave of responses from readers of the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, all trying to argue that Christianity does in fact make sense. The debate has continued on Johnson's web page. Many respondents, including myself, have sent detailed explanations of the evidence of Christianity, as well as defenses of many Christian beliefs. Johnson coolly knocked down most responses he received, employing one argument or another that has been developed in opposition to each of the arguments proposed. The debate has compelled me to contemplate the beliefs of agnostics in comparison with those of everyone else. Every person in the history of mankind has wondered as to the origin and nature of our universe it is by far the single most important question we can ask. Our situation is such that we cannot know with certainty the answer to our question. That does not mean an answer does not exist; on the contrary, everyone would concede that there is a unique answer to our question either we are here by accident or else someone put us here. Atheists say that there is no God and we are here by accident. Most everyone else falls into the category of believing in some sort of a supreme being.

9. What Is Agnosticism?
   A history of the development of agnostic thought written by HJ Blackham.Category Society Religion and Spirituality agnosticismLibrary Modern HJ Blackham What Is agnosticism? What Is agnosticism? (1981). Historically, agnosticism does not merely mean a suspension of judgment.  
   http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/h_j_blackham/agnostic.html
   
   Extractions: What Is Agnosticism? (1981) H. J. Blackham [This article was originally published in "Free Inquiry," Summer, 1981, pp. 31-33.] Winds of Doctrine As a definition of the limits of knowledge, "agnosticism" needs to be understood historically. Summarily and roughly, philosophy at the time of Plutarch (first century A.D.) offered six positions: on the one hand, a dogmatic Idealism or Materialism: on the other, skepticism, pragmatism, eclecticism, or fideism. The names of Plato and Democritus can be put at the head of the dogmatic traditions: Pyrrho has lent his name to fundamental skepticism; Isocrates made immensely influential a pragmatic view of philosophy; and Plutarch himself was the preeminent representative of a rational and ethical eclecticism. Perhaps Tertullian, if not Saint Paul, represents the constraints of fideism after Christian faith came into contact and conflict with Greek gnosticism. The case for each of these positions was spelled out in verbal argument. Plato, in the

10. Agnosticism
    agnosticism. agnosticism is the position of believing that knowledge of the existence or nonexistence of God is  
    http://skepdic.com/agnosticism.html
    
    Extractions: SkepDic.com Agnosticism is the position of believing that knowledge of the existence or non-existence of God is impossible. It is often put forth as a middle ground between theism and atheism . Understood this way, agnosticism is skepticism regarding all things theological. The agnostic holds that human knowledge is limited to the natural world, that the mind is incapable of knowledge of the supernatural. Understood this way, an agnostic could also be a theist or an atheist. The former is called a fideist , one who believes in God purely on faith. The latter is sometimes accused by theists of having faith in the non-existence of God , but the accusation is absurd and the expression meaningless. The agnostic atheist simply finds no compelling reason to believe in God. The term 'agnostic' was created by T. H. Huxley (1825-1895), who took his cue from David Hume and Immanuel Kant. Huxley says that he invented the term to describe what he thought made him unique among his fellow thinkers: They were quite sure that they had attained a certain "gnosis" had more or less successfully solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble

11. Agnosticism And Christianity (1889)
    The full text of Huxley's essay comparing the two systems of belief.Category Society Religion and Spirituality agnosticismagnosticism and Christianity 1899 Collected Essays V. This is what agnosticismasserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to agnosticism.  
    http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE5/Agn-X.html
    
    Extractions: Agnosticism and Christianity Collected Essays V De Civ. Dei, xii.7. The present discussion has arisen out of the use, which has become general in the last few years, of the terms "Agnostic" and "Agnosticism." as to the truth of a particular [313] form of Theology, is another. With scientific Theology, Agnosticism has no quarrel. On the contrary, the Agnostic, knowing too well the influence of prejudice and idiosyncrasy, even on those who desire most earnestly to be impartial, can wish for nothing more urgently than that the scientific theologian should not only be at perfect liberty to thresh out the matter in his own fashion; but that he should, if he can, find flaws in the Agnostic position; and, even if demonstration is not to be had, that he should put, in their full force, the grounds of the conclusions he thinks probable. The scientific theologian admits the Agnostic principle, however widely his results may differ from those reached by the majority of Agnostics. He declares that he has prejudged certain conclusions, and looks upon those who show cause for arrest of judgment as emissaries of Satan. It necessarily follows that, for him, the attainment of faith, not the ascertainment of truth, is the [314] highest aim of mental life. And, on careful analysis of the nature of this faith, it will too often be found to be, not the mystic process of unity with the Divine, understood by the religious enthusiast; but that which the candid simplicity of a Sunday scholar once defined it to be. "Faith," said this unconscious plagiarist of Tertullian, "is the power of saying you believe things which are incredible."

12. Agnosticism (1889)
    This is the full text of Thomas Huxley's essay explaining and defending agnosticism.Category Society Religion and Spirituality agnosticismJ. Huxley, Diary of HMS Rattlesnake. agnosticism (1889). Collected EssaysV. agnosticism exercised the orators of the Church Congress at Manchester.  
    http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE5/Agn.html
    
    Extractions: Active Skepticism J. Huxley, Diary of H. M. S. Rattlesnake Collected Essays V l.c. p. 253). The triumphant tone of this imaginary catechism leads me to suspect that its author has hardly appreciated its full import. Presumably, Dr. Wace regards Mahommed as an unbeliever, or, to use the term which he prefers, infidel; and considers that his assurances have given rise to a vast delusion which has led, and is leading, millions of men straight to everlasting punishment. And this being so, the "Trust and faith" which have "made the Mahommedan world," in just the same sense as they have [214] "made the Christian world," must be trust and faith in falsehood. No man who has studied history, or even attended to the occurrences of everyday life, can doubt the enormous practical value of trust and faith; but as little will he be inclined to deny that this practical value has not the least relation to the reality of the objects of that trust and faith. In examples of patient constancy of faith and of unswerving trust, the "Acta Martyrum" do not excel the annals of Babism. honest men. Now, though honest speech does not require that words should be used always and only in their etymological sense, it does require that they should not be used so as to affirm what the speaker knows to be false. Whilst, therefore, our Lord and His Apostles might use the word [to be possessed by a demon], or the phrase, [to have a demon], as a popular description of certain diseases, without giving in to the belief which lay at the source of such a mode of expression, they could not speak of demons entering into a man, or being cast out of him, without pledging themselves to the belief of an actual possession of the man by the demons. (Campbell

13. Pious Agnosticism
    A Unitarian Universalist sermon by Rev. Libby Smith suggesting that just because you don't know doesn't Category Society Religion and Spirituality agnosticism Miles argues that Christianity, as well as other religions, should make more roomfor agnosticism the belief that it is impossible for us to know whether or  
    http://www.buxmontuu.org/pious_agnost.htm

14. Agnosticism
    An article from BibleBelievers.Net rejecting agnosticism as neither logical nor philosophical.  
    http://www.biblebelievers.net/FalseTeaching/kjcagnos.htm
    
    Extractions: By A. McD. Rewood T HE natural attitude of a thinking mind toward the supernatural is that of skepticism’ skepticism, not agnosticism. The skeptic halts at the cross-roads, to take his bearings; but at the sight of a cross-road the agnostic gives up his journey altogether. True skepticism connotes intellectual caution, but agnosticism is intellectual suicide." With these words Sir Robert Anderson opens one of his chapters in his In Defence, a book which we commend to everyone who suffers from mental doubts. What is Agnosticism?

15. Dennis's Philosophical Pages / About Agnosticism
    Dennis Halnon provides an explanation of what agnosticism is, what it means, and what it implies.Category Society Religion and Spirituality agnosticismAbout agnosticism. If you've read my other philosophy pages, you've probablydiscerned that I do not believe in any religion. What Is agnosticism?  
    http://pages.cthome.net/djhalnon/ag.html
    
    Extractions: If you've read my other "philosophy" pages , you've probably discerned that I do not believe in any religion. You'd be correct. I am, properly speaking, an Agnostic. Here is my explanation of what is meant by "agnosticism." In this essay, the term "theistic" refers to any metaphysical philosophy, or religion, with at least one deity at its heart. Such deities may be metaphorical, or representations of natural forces, or actual Supreme Beings of some kind. The term "non-theistic" refers to any metaphysical philosophy, or religion, which does not have any deities at its core. Such philosophies consider the existence of deities to be irrelevant to the message they convey. This is contrasted with "atheism," which is an assertion that there cannot be any deities of any kind. I'll mention atheism in more detail, below. A lot of people have misconceptions about what agnosticism is. So I will start at the beginning. This term was coined in the nineteenth century by T.H. Huxley. It comes from the Greek word γνωσις (" gnosis "), meaning "knowledge" or "to know," with the negation prefix

16. ATHEISM, AGNOSTICISM, HUMANISM
    ATHEISM, agnosticism, FREE THINKING, HUMANISM, etc. Click Here to Visit ourSponsors. agnosticism is not a religion or complete ethical system.  
    http://www.religioustolerance.org/at_ag_hu.htm
    
    Extractions: ATHEISM, AGNOSTICISM, FREE THINKING, HUMANISM, etc. Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. One of the problems in the field of religion and ethical systems is that certain terms (e.g. Atheism, Agnosticism, Humanism) have multiple meanings. Perhaps the most impressive example of confusion over terms are "Witch" and "Witchcraft" which have at least 17 different definitions. Those who have abandoned traditional religious beliefs and practices define themselves in various ways: Agnosticism is not a religion or complete ethical system. It is simply a belief that we cannot prove either the existence or the non-existence of deity; (i.e. of one or more gods, one or more goddesses, or combinations of the above). Many Agnostics believe that we cannot know anything about deity or deities at the present time, but that this could conceivably change in the future. Atheism is also not a religion or a complete ethical system. It has two main definitions: The lack of a belief that deity, in the form of one or more supernatural gods or goddesses, exists. American Atheists define an Atheist to be a person who "

17. Agnosticism, Book Of Shadows, And More
    Dragon pictures, horoscope, college page, and favorite links.  
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18. The Secular Web
    The most comprehensive site about agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and rationalism on the Web  
    http://www.infidels.org

19. Affirming Humanism
    What is humanism and what is it all about? How does it compare to religion? Some ideas from the About.com Guide to agnosticism and Atheism.  
    http://atheism.about.com/library/weekly/aa092398.htm
    
    Extractions: Affirming Humanism Dateline: September 23, 1998 Considering the level and intensity of attacks levied against humanism by religious conservatives in the media, from the pulpit, and on the internet, one might be lead to think that there is something to all of their allegations. But is there? In an intermittent series of essays, I intend to address a variety of those allegations and examine whether or not they enjoy a solid foundation. One common misconception which is often seen being bandied about is the idea that humanism embodies some sort of dogmatic creed . Most humanists will find this laughable, but they should not shrug it off too quickly. Enough people actually believe it that we really need to deal with it.

20. Colorless Green Homunculi By William L. Benzon
    Dawkins had little to say about just where one might look in the brain to find memes and other memeticists have been content to follow him in that. Robert Aunger, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, believes that it is time memeticists end their agnosticism on this matter. To that purpose he has written an exposition of neuromemetics called The Electric Meme.  
    http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/benzon.html
    
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