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محتوى الكتاب عن \"كريستوفر هيتشنز\" مزيجا من الشجاعة والابتكار، مزيج حير حتى أعدائه الصريحين-المنطقيين منهم-الذين كانوا يعترفون بكل فرصة مناسبة معلنين بأنه شخص صادق وشجاع، ليست هذه سيرة حياة كريستوفر هيتشنز ؛ بل هي سيرة وفاته، هي كل ما سمحت له لحظاته الأخيرة بتضمينه وتقديمه لنا. حيث يجمع هذا الكتاب المقالات الثمانية الأخيرة التي كتبها هيتشنز ووردت تحت عنوان (الفناء)، إضافة إلى إحدى أكثر المحاضرات التي قدمها تأثيرا، وبعض مما قيل بحقه وحق أعماله. قد لا يحتوي هذا الكتاب على أهم الأفكار التي كتبها هيتشنز وجادل بها، إنما هو تعريف للقارئ العربي، برجل يستحق قراءة ما كتب من أعمدة وكتب، ويستحق وقفة تأمل أمام شريط حياته.
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Reason, Faith, and Revolution
Terry Eagleton's witty and polemicalReason, Faith, and Revolutionis bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the \"superstitious\" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity.
There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade-Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in particular-nor for many conventional believers. Instead, Eagleton offers his own vibrant account of religion and politics in a book that ranges from the Holy Spirit to the recent history of the Middle East, from Thomas Aquinas to the Twin Towers.
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العقل، والإيمان، والثورة تأملات في مناظرة حول الله
في هذا الكتاب يجادل المؤلف الجهل والتحامل. فإن كان اليسار اللاأدبي لا يتحمل الكسل الفكري عندما يتعلق الأمر بالكتب المقدسة اليهودية والمسيحية، فذلك ليس فقط لأن مواجهة الخصم شديد الإقناع يستلزم العدالة والصدق، بل أيضاً لأن الراديكاليين قد يكتشفون بعض الأشياء البصيرة القيمة في التحرر الإنساني، في منطقة يقف فيها اليسار السياسي وهو في أمس الحاجة إلى الأفكار الجيدة. إنه لا يدعو مثل هؤلاء القراء إلى الإيمان بهذه الأفكار أكثر من إيماني بالملاك جبريل وبعصمة البابا وبفكرة أن يسوع مشى على الماء، أو بالادعاء بأنه ارتفع إلى السماء أمام عيون مريديه. فإذا حاول في هذا الكتاب أن يقول من بطنه ما يعتبره نسخة المزمور المسيحي المتعلق بالراديكاليين والإنسانيين، فلا يرغب في أن يساء فهمه ويقال عنه إنه أبله. لكن الكتب المقدسة اليهودية والمسيحية لديها الكثير لتقول كإجابة عن بعض المسائل الحيوية- كالموت والمعاناة والحب وإنكار الذات وما شابهها- التي يلزم اليسار الصمت المربك حيال معظمها. لقد حان الوقت لإنهاء هذا الحياء السياسي المعيق.
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Editorial for Special Issue “The Global Urgency of Interreligious Studies”
This issue of Religions serves as a modest invitation to consider a big claim, namely, that if we want to address the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, interreligious collaboration is required [...]
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Mortality
\"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers\"--Provided by the publisher.
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Christopher Hitchens and the Necessity of Universalism
Identity politics - especially around race and gender - has become a gigantic engine of political mobilization and social division in liberal democracies. The intellectual and ethical foundation of Hitchens's most essential principles - his contempt for identity politics and religion, consistent internationalism, and immovable support for free expression - was the idea that human beings should demolish the barriers that prevent them from understanding and expressing solidarity with one another. When Hitchens summarized his view of socialism in a 1986 debate, he began with the assertion that \"all divisions of class, nation, race, and sex are, in the last resort, manmade - and can be man-unmade - are in no sense part of a divine or natural ordinance, and ... we are members, like it or no, of one race, the human race.\" Wouldn't a black American who lived in Alabama or Georgia during the Jim Crow era understand the implications of segregation and other racist policies better than a fellow citizen who didn't share that experience?
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What the New Atheists (and, for That Matter, Creationists Too) Got Right
The reception of the so-called New Atheism in the 2000s in the intellectual community was harsh. Its main figures were accused of elaborating on a subject of which they were mostly ignorant. Criticism focused on the narrow way they described religion as a set of factual beliefs that compete with—and pale in the face of—modern science, instead of a life experience, an ethical orientation, an existential commitment, or a set of communal practices. In the spirit of S.J. Gould’s non-overlapping magisteria thesis, these critics contended that religion has little to do with factual assertions. This paper challenges this strict separation, arguing that many theistic traditions, such as Christianity, inherently make factual claims about the universe and history, intertwining their beliefs with cosmic realities. Following Ronald Dworkin’s posthumous distinction between the “science part” and the “value part” of religion, the paper underscores the philosophical legitimacy of religious factual claims, thus acknowledging the potential overlap between science and religion. In this sense, it argues that the New Atheists may have got wrong the meaning of religion in many people’s lives, but they got the “science part” right enough. In the same vein, it concludes that while creationists are most likely wrong in their account of the origin of life and biodiversity, their contestation in the factual domain cannot be discarded as a disfigurement of religion.
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Moral licensing, instrumental apology and insincerity aversion: Taking Immanuel Kant to the lab
Moral licensing, equivalently called \"self-licensing\", is the instrumental use of a Good Act to cover up a Bad Act. This paper's thesis is that \"instrumental apology\" i.e., bad-faith apology, is a case of moral licensing. A decision maker may issue an apology (Good Act) after committing a Bad Act, but if the decision maker uses the apology instrumentally, he or she is using the apology to justify the Bad Act. Hence, the apology is insincere. Sincerity is the fine line between a good-faith apology or, more generally, a Good Act, on one hand, and an instrumental apology or, more generally, moral licensing, on the other. In this light, moral licensing should be separated from genuine apology that attains moral equilibrium, which is called in the literature moral \"self-regulation' and \"conscience accounting.\" According to Kantian ethics, not just the consequences of an act matter, but also the sincerity with which the act was conducted. This pits Kant against the utilitarian view, which downplays intentions and focuses on consequences. We take Kant to the lab. Participants play a modified ultimatum game, where proposers in some treatments have the option of issuing apology messages and responders have both costly and costless options for rewarding or punishing proposers. We introduce different treatments of the apology message to allow responders to form doubts about the sincerity of the apology messages. Our results support the Kantian position: responders, once they become suspicious of the sincerity of the proposers' apology, exhibit \"insincerity aversion\" and punish proposers.
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