Giving the devil his due : reflections of a scientific humanist / Michael Shermer.
"To be sure, I will confess that when I see racist assholes like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor spouting their ignorant beliefs about blacks and Jews in half-empty hotel conference rooms or to a rag-tag mob of tiki torch-carrying thugs in a public park, the urge to "punch a Nazi" we...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Giving the devil his due : |b reflections of a scientific humanist / |c Michael Shermer. |
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| 520 | |a "To be sure, I will confess that when I see racist assholes like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor spouting their ignorant beliefs about blacks and Jews in half-empty hotel conference rooms or to a rag-tag mob of tiki torch-carrying thugs in a public park, the urge to "punch a Nazi" wells up inside, as it did for the man who sucker punched Spencer during a television interview near President Trump's inauguration in January 2017. But we must resist the primal urge that bubbles up in our primate brains to fight hate with hate, and instead to follow the sage advice of Martin Luther King, Jr. when he reproved in 1958:12 Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2020). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due? -- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech -- 1 Giving the Devil His Due: Why Freedom of Inquiry and Speech in Science and Politics Is Inviolable -- 2 Banning Evil: In the Shadow of the Christchurch Massacre, Myths about Evil and Hate Speech Are Misleading -- 3 Free Speech Even If It Hurts: Defending Holocaust Denier David Irving | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4 Free to Inquire: The Evolution-Creationism Controversy as a Test Case in Equal Time and Free Speech -- 5 Ben Stein's Blunder: Why Intelligent Design Advocates Are Not Free Speech Martyrs -- 6 What Went Wrong?: Campus Unrest, Viewpoint Diversity, and Freedom of Speech -- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion -- 7 E Pluribus Unum for All Faiths and for None: The Case for Belief Pluralism -- 8 Atheism and Liberty: Raising Consciousness for Religious Skepticism through Political Freedom -- 9 The Curious Case of Scientology: Is It a Religion or a Cult? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 10 Does the Universe Have a Purpose?: Alvy's Error and the Meaning of Life -- 11 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: Answering the Biggest Question of Them All -- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society -- 12 Another Dream Deferred: How Identity Politics, Intersectionality Theory, and Tribal Divisiveness Are Inverting Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream -- 13 Healing the Bonds of Affection: The Case for Classical Liberalism -- 14 Governing Mars: Lessons for the Red Planet from Experiments in Governing the Blue Planet | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 15 The Sandy Hook Effect: What We Can and Cannot Do about Gun Violence -- 16 On Guns and Tyranny -- 17 Debating Guns: What Conservatives and Liberals Really Differ On about Guns (and Everything Else) -- 18 Another Fatal Conceit: The Lesson from Evolutionary Economics Is Bottom-Up Self-Organization, Not Top-Down Government Design -- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism -- 19 Scientific Naturalism: A Manifesto for Enlightenment Humanism -- 20 Mr. Hume: Tear. Down. This. Wall.: A Response to George Ellis' Critique of My Defense of Moral Realism | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 21 Kardashev's Types and Sparks' Law: How to Build Civilization 1.0 -- 22 How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, and Luck -- What We Can and Cannot Control -- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals -- 23 Transcendent Man: An Elegiac Essay to Paul Kurtz -- A Skeptic's Skeptic -- 24 The Real Hitch: Did Christopher Hitchens Really Keep Two Sets of Books About His Beliefs? -- 25 The Skeptic's Chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a Fountainhead of Skepticism -- 26 Have Archetype -- Will Travel: The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Democracy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Political culture. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Humanism. | |
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