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January 26, 2006
Flurry of Freethinking
Golden ages of disbelief?
** Athens at the time of Pericles (Protagoras, Anaxagoras, Diagoras, perhaps Thucydides).
** Paris in the 18th century (Meslier, Diderot, d'Holbach).
** London in the 19th century (Shelley, Mill, Bradlaugh, Martineau, Darwin, Huxley)
And...possibly...now...when orthodoxy ostensibly is resurgent. Add to publications in recent years by Jennifer Michael Hecht, Susan Jacoby and Sam Harris a new book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett on the causes of belief.
Posted by Mitchell Stephens at January 26, 2006 9:05 PM
