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Modern Freethought: Large Print Edition

Modern Freethought: Large Print Edition

Gerard Sj, J.

Paperback

PhilosophyCatholicism

ISBN10: 1979331146
ISBN13: 9781979331142
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 1 2017
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
THE scope of the following lecture is strictly limited by its title. No attempt is made to establish the truth of Christianity or Theism, but only to examine the assumption that -- as their nomenclature would imply -- Freethought must be synonymous with intellectual liberty, and Rationalism with sound reasoning. Those who start with this assumption as a first principle naturally refuse all consideration to systems of belief which they consider to be self-condemned as mere mental bondage, and, accordingly, before anything more positive can be effected, it is necessary that the ground should be cleared of fundamental misconceptions, and the foundations determined upon which valid argument must be based. It is as a contribution towards such an object that the lecture is designed. Modern Freethought OBVIOUSLY a subject so large, and so little definite, requires the utmost precision as to what we mean, if we are to discuss it to any purpose, and not to wander off into all the maze of topics which it suggests. The very idea of freedom, above all of mental freedom, is of necessity supremely dear to every right-minded man, so that it may at first sight appear an axiomatic truth that a system which claims distinctively the name of Freethought must be the most worthy of our rational allegiance.

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