Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

勃特兰·罗素勃特兰·罗素的小册子为什么我不是基督徒是对不可知论信条的经典阐述。 这本同名小书是基于他1927年发表的演说。文章首先简单阐述罗素反对有神论论据，然后详细论述其对基督教教义之道德反对。最后他更呼吁他的读者要用“无惧的态度和开放的智慧”“独立自主、公平正直地看世界”。 在罗素后来的小册子我是一个无神论者或者不可知论吗？(副标题: 对面对新教条所持容忍态度的辩论)中, 他确认，他在哲学意义上是一个不可知论者，不知道神是否真的存在。然而在同一部作品中，他也接纳，无神论者这一称呼能更加好的表达非哲学追随者的宗教姿态。

出版者:Touchstone

作者:Bertrand Russell

页数:266

出版时间:1967-10-30

价格:USD 15.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780671203238

图书标签:哲学宗教Bertrand-RussellReligion英文英国神学宗教基督教

Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic, and lofty wisdom for which his other work as philosopher, writer, and teacher has been famous. These qualities make the essays included in this book perhaps the most graceful and moving presentation of the freethinker's position since the days of Hume and Voltaire. "I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue," Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man's mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as 1954. The book has been edited, with Lord Russell's full approval and cooperation, by Professor Paul Edwards of the Philosophy Department of New York University. In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the highly controversial "Bertrand Russell Case" of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared "unfit" to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York. Whether the reader shares or rejects Bertrand Russell's views, he will find this book an invigorating challenge to set notions, a masterly statement of a philosophical position, and a pure joy to read.

读后感

书名非常具有说明性，全书由罗素的演讲及论文构成，并不是通书构建性地对书名这一问题的阐述，而是这一句那一句，时而深浅时而东西地拼凑起来。对于非教徒人士而言，这也多少算做自己无信仰之佐证，但如果打算以此为契机深入地思考有关信仰与神灵的话题，则一定要看一些关于信...  

书名非常具有说明性，全书由罗素的演讲及论文构成，并不是通书构建性地对书名这一问题的阐述，而是这一句那一句，时而深浅时而东西地拼凑起来。对于非教徒人士而言，这也多少算做自己无信仰之佐证，但如果打算以此为契机深入地思考有关信仰与神灵的话题，则一定要看一些关于信...  

吃货总会面临这样两难：鲜美的河豚肉和致命的毒素，在《入殓师》里有句台词“好吃得让人为难”，这就是我阅读这本书最大的感受。 这样一本书既有闪耀着理性光辉的雄辩又有自以为是的浅薄，既有痛快淋漓的宗教批判，又有佶屈聱牙的闪烁言辞，这样一本书好看得让人为难...  

宗教源于一种恐惧，即死后的虚空与未知的茫然。这种心理是合理的。联想到圣经中的经文，在爱中没有恐惧，也就从侧面解释了这个宗教缘起的可能性。但不能就此认为只是人作为个体存在的一种孤独与恐怖的情感，我总相信还有什么先验的东西在支撑着我们去信仰。这个先验意识的存在...  

宗教源于一种恐惧，即死后的虚空与未知的茫然。这种心理是合理的。联想到圣经中的经文，在爱中没有恐惧，也就从侧面解释了这个宗教缘起的可能性。但不能就此认为只是人作为个体存在的一种孤独与恐怖的情感，我总相信还有什么先验的东西在支撑着我们去信仰。这个先验意识的存在...  

用户评价

That star is for the powerful language (which I really really like :)

怎么说呢，批评的不够拳拳到肉，和新一辈无神论者比起来逊色不少，权当了解阅读

太怕死了，于是希望有个老大哥随时stand by your side。

太怕死了，于是希望有个老大哥随时stand by your side。

某天上课老师提到，不过我是暑假读的。。