|
|
|
Midwest Book Review:
When this remarkable anthology was first compiled by renowned humanist and psychologist Margaret Knight in 1961, it
brought together a wide range of humanist thought from classical China, Greece, and Rome; the Renaissance and
Enlightenment; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century rationalist tradition. This revised edition, by acclaimed writer and
skeptic James Herrick, has updated and expanded an already impressive roster by adding Islamic skeptic Averroes; novelists
Mark Twain, George Eliot, and E. M. Forster; and scientists J. Bronowski, Richard Dawkins, and David Attenborough.
Herrick also includes contributions by A. J. Ayer, Antony Flew, Sidney Hook, Paul Kurtz, and Indian humanists M. N. Roy
and Gora.
Margaret Knight was lecturer in psychology at Aberdeen University. James Herrick (London, England) is editor of the Rationalist Press Association (U. K.), and editor of the journal New Humanist and International Humanist News.
This volume includes the works of people such as Confucius, Epicurus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Epictetus, Benedict Spinoza, Voltaire, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Henry Huxley, Robert Green Ingersoll, Friedrich Nietzsche, W. K. Clifford, Sigmund Freud, John Dewey, Chapman Cohen, Bertrand Russell, and Albert Einstein.
|