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For centuries man was seen as created in the image of God, distinct from any other animal. Then, Darwin persuasively argued that mankind and other species are descended from common ancestors; most scientists soon agreed.
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Hume thought the entire world is constituted of the perceptions from our sense-experience. He had profound doubts about our ability to know anything with certainty. Hume was skeptical of science and vigorously attacked proofs of the existence of God.
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Kant believed that reason, the most fundamental human faculty, creates a world where all events are casually connected; it enables us to act morally, to enjoy beauty and to appreciate natureŐs magnificence. Kant forecast the possibility of a purely rational religion and that reason would lead to peace.
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Hegel aimed to make philosophy a comprehensive science. He saw progress as the work of reason and the historical process moving us through struggle and contradiction to a higher synthesis.
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Soren Kierkegarrd believed that truth emerges only from our subjective, private lives; but neither the selfish search for pleasure nor a responsible social life can fully satisfy us. He believed GodŐs existence cannot be proved, but that only a religious leap of faith can make our own finitude bearable and endow life with meaning.
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In 1883, Nietzsche boldly announced that God is dead. He also believed that truth is relative, he proposed to replace the values of traditional morality with the idea that creative human beings can use their energy, strength and intelligence to give purpose and meaning to their lives.
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Jean-Paul Sartre was a leading advocate of the view that we must establish our own existence and individual dignity, despite a meaningless life and a final death.
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No historical event, short of the American Revolution itself, has affected the United States as deeply as the Civil War. But much more than slavery was at stake. Was the United States one nation, indivisible under God? Or, was the United States a group of sovereign states, who could choose to disassociate?
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The Great Economic Thinkers series is a collection of audio presentations that explain, in understandable language, the major ideas of history’s most important economists. Special emphasis is placed on each thinker’s attitude toward capitalism, revealing their influence in today’s debate on economic progress and prosperity. The Great Economic Thinkers series is recognized as America’s most informative economic series!
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