Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:48:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDERSON CLAYTON SANTANA DO NASCIMENTO.pdf: 1307071 bytes, checksum: 9188332f6cac59d6d5ee6501fa8fd09a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-02 / Deus, um delírio? A doutrina neoateísta de Richard Dawkins enquanto doadora de sentido para a vida é uma pesquisa que tem como objetivo analisar o pensamento de Richard Dawkins, condensado em sua obra principal o livro Deus um delírio para que seja possível verificar como funcionam os argumentos ali contidos e analisar a oferta de sentido que traz para substituir a religião enquanto doadora de sentido para a vida. A pesquisa foi feita através de uma revisão bibliográfica das obras do autor e de seus principais críticos. No primeiro capítulo foram investigados os pressupostos e as origens das ideias do pensamento ateísta de Dawkins. No segundo capítulo se faz uma análise mais pormenorizada das ideias de Dawkins. No terceiro capítulo o pensamento de Dawkins é analisado enquanto doutrina doadora de sentido para a vida humana. Foi constatado que Dawkins usa a o conhecimento científico fora de sua alçada para propagar uma doutrina liberalista.

Arguably, the impact of Darwinism on the novel is an indispensable part of the study of English literature. However, with regard to such literary study there is an ongoing aversion towards approaching Darwin outside the confines of his contemporaneous Victorian setting. This thesis explores what remains an extremely under-represented area of current scholarship; namely, the active status of Darwinism as an influence upon contemporary novelists. To address this gap, this study starts by conducting textual and comparative analyses of a representative selection of contemporary British novels, a literary field that, since 1990, has featured significant authors who have found in Darwin a source of intellectual and literary inspiration. The aim is to argue that Darwin's classic texts, and more recent incarnations of his theory such as Sociobiology, are deployed as a materialist discourse, used to subvert various problematic assumptions in the declining Postmodernist philosophy, the previously dominant theoretical paradigm. For novelists including Ian McEwan, A.S. Byatt and Jenny Diski, Darwinism provides the tools to define human nature in an oppositional manner to the Social Constructivism which reduces the human to a blank slate ready for society's dictation. A universal human nature can be seen manifested in biological phenomena including competition, altruism, reproduction and aggression. The treacherous territory of biological determinism is still present, yet the desire to experiment is carried forward by McEwan in Enduring Love and Saturday into the realm of challenging traditional religion. In a more nuanced manner, Jim Crace's Being Dead manages to create a wholly naturalistic narrative of death. Finally, reinstating alterative meta-narratives is a practice that comes fully into its own in contemporary renditions of history. Byatt's Neo-Victorian novels, Possession and Morpho Eugenia, exhibit faith in knowing the past as if it were an evolutionary process of accumulated changes. Moreover, Diski's serio-ironic Monkey's Uncle is focused on how the present is haunted by the past in the form of immortal DNA coils. This study analyses the texts in a manner suggesting a paradigm shift in literary scholarship, where Darwin is no longer seen as simply an ideological threat. As the sciences continue to become more hermeneutically enigmatic, and as literature seems embedded in an elitist Postmodernist trajectory, there is now huge democratic potential in the New Darwinian Novel which invites the everyman of today to participate in the controversies of both disciplines.

abstract: Anti-atheist prejudice is cross-culturally prevalent and marked by intuitive distrust. However, recent research suggests that, when social perceivers know additional relevant information about others (i.e., their reproductive strategies), this information overrides religious information and nonreligious targets are trusted as much as religious targets. That is, perceivers seem to use religious information as a cue to a specific set of behavioral traits, but prioritize direct information about these traits when available. Here, I use this framework to explore the possibility that atheists are viewed positively in certain circumstances. First, atheists might be viewed positively for certain purposes because of their perceived reproductive strategies, even while being trusted less. Second, atheists who are family-oriented do not sacrifice trust, but may still be viewed positively for other traits (i.e., open-mindedness, scientific thinking). Third, given the constraints religion often imposes on behavior, atheists might be trusted more in situations where these constraints interfere with religious people’s inclination to cooperate. I tested these hypotheses using fictitious social media profiles to examine social perception. The study had a 3 (Target Religion: Religious, Nonreligious, or Atheist) × 3 (Target Reproductive Strategy: No Information, Committed, Uncommitted) experimental design (N = 550). Contrary to my predictions, participants did not rate atheists and nonreligious targets as “fast” compared to religious targets. Consistent with predictions, however, atheists and nonreligious individuals were rated significantly higher on perceived open-mindedness and scientific thinking. Finally, atheist and nonreligious targets were trusted more in two of the three trust domains: trust with scientific findings that contradict their worldview and trust with a secret about a friend’s abortion. Further analyses compared patterns of responding for religious and nonreligious individuals, finding evidence for ingroup bias in most perceptions, but not all. Results suggest that perceptions of atheists are complex, but that atheists may, at least sometimes, be viewed favorably. Finally, these results point to the importance of reproductive strategy as a dimension of social perception, as this variable had a clear effect, independent of target religion, on the hypothesized perceptions. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Psychology 2018

In 1919 Anton Nyström became the first person in Sweden to publish a comprehensive defense of homosexuality. He believed that its classification as a mental illness was erroneous and that Sweden's law against homosexual sex was both irrational and cruel. Nyström was a physician whose work in the medical area dealt primarily with dermatology, psychiatry and human sexuality; however he was also a prolific historian, who took a staunchly anti-Christian view in his analysis of how Christianity affected European culture, especially in the area of sexual morality. In fact, much of Nyström's medical texts dealing with human sexuality consisted of anti-Christian cultural and historical commentary. The object of this "C-uppsats" is to analyze Nyström's pamphlet, Om Homosexualitet och Hermafroditi: Belysning af Missförstådda Existenser and illustrate how its defensive structure was consistent with the pattern used by the author in his other books and articles on human sexuality. Specifically, that irrational and neurotic Christian beliefs caused both mental and physical suffering and were the source of deleterious forms of morality. Additionally, this paper will also show that the solution Nyström had for the problem of negative and erroneous attitudes towards homosexuality was to replace the sodomitic view of homosexuality with one based upon a more rational and naturalistic belief system, the basis of which could be found in the pre-Christian cultures of Europe, most especially in Greece. This new conception was to be constructed primarily out of historical example and cultural analyses. For Nyström, history writing was used both as a weapon to fight the source of negative attitudes towards homosexuality, as well as a tool that could be used to build a positive cultural model which would be beneficial for homosexuals.

Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura has as one of its main goals the extermination of traditional conceptions of the gods, but gods pervade the poem in a variety of roles, beginning with the very first line, invoking Venus. This report seeks to analyze the ways in which Lucretius exploits popular notions of the divine while remaining true to both his Epicurean beliefs and his anti-theistic agenda, as well as the reasons behind these decisions. We begin with an exploration of the role of the poetic medium in this situation, followed by a close examination of the entire proem. Lucretius’ negative views about religio are brought to light and are contrasted with his supportive views regarding religious metaphor, partly through an investigation into Lucretius’ representation of Epicurus as divine. The final section of this report identifies some of the same dynamics at play in Lucretius in modern atheistic discourse and draws more general conclusions about the nature of anti-theistic discourse in a world dominated by theistic assumptions. / text

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1992. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-235).

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-37).

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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal o resgate do conceito de homem a partir da desvelaÃÃo da religiÃo cristÃ, realizada por Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804-1872). Tendo como obra principal A essÃncia do cristianismo (1841). Analisaremos o conceito de homem, como ser plural e integral e, a fundamentaÃÃo de tal conceito advinda de sua crÃtica à religiÃo e, portanto, os alicerces do que ficou conhecido como seu ateÃsmo antropolÃgico. Desta maneira, tentamos demonstrar onde se encontram os mistÃrios ocultos que estÃo velados no seio da religiÃo e, de igual maneira na mente humana. Por essa razÃo, a terminologia religiosa nÃo à descartada nas proposiÃÃes feuerbachianas, mas antes ressignificada a partir de sua genealogia real e imanente ao homem. Desvendaremos a relaÃÃo vital entre o homem e seu interior, o homem e a religiÃo, o homem e a natureza e, por fim, toda a vida humana com suas sortes e revezes. Para isso, Feuerbach desenvolve uma reflexÃo a fim de desmitologizar a religiÃo, como critÃrio fundamental para a emancipaÃÃo do homem e assim, para tornÃ-lo responsÃvel por sua biosfera. A partir de entÃo, nÃo se trata mais de discutir a relaÃÃo Deus e homem, agora se versa sobre escolher como criador ou Deus ou o homem. Surge daÃ, a mÃxima: O Homem à o seu Deus. De tal modo que, a relaÃÃo unilateral de dominaÃÃo da teologia sobre a antropologia à reduzida a uma relaÃÃo da antropologia consigo. Destacaremos os atributos humanos velados no sentido religioso e decifrados no sentido antropolÃgico. Neste caso, o ateÃsmo antropolÃgico nÃo significa apenas a derrota do opositor (religiÃo) da vida humana plena. Ele, antes, constitui-se como um novo comeÃo para a odisseia humana, agora livre e emancipada. / The present essay has as main objective to ransom the concept of man from the unveiling of the cristhian religion, accomplished by Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804-1872), having as main work The essence of the cristhianism (1941). It will be analyzed herein the concept of man, as a plural and unabridged being and, the substantiation of such concept arising from his critic to the religion and, therefore, the foundations of what had became known as his anthropological atheism. Thus, the author of this essay is trying to demonstrate where are the latent mysteries that are hidden within the religion and, in the same way in the human mind. For this reason, the religion terminology is not discarded in the feuerbachian propositions, but formerly resignified from its real genealogy and immanent to the man. In this work it will be uncloaked the vital relation between the man and his insides, the man and the religion, the man and the nature and, lastly, the whole human life in its fortunes and setbacks. For this, Feuerbach develops a reflexion in order to demythologize the religion, as fundamental criterion for the emancipating of the man and thereby, to make him responsible for his biosphere. From then on, it is no longer about arguing the relation God and man, it is now concerning about choosing as creator or God or man. Arises there, the maxim: The Man is its God. Such that, the unilateral relation of domination of the theology over the anthropology is reduced to a relation of the anthropology with itself. It will also be highlighted herein the human attributes concealed in the religion way and deciphered in the anthropological way. In this case, the anthropological atheism dos not mean just a defeat of the objector (religion) of full human life. It, formerly, constitutes itself as a new beginning to the human odyssey, now free and emancipated

Orientador: Luiz Roberto Monzani / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T03:36:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mattos_ElizangelaInocencio_M.pdf: 6574100 bytes, checksum: 8bb5bb8ed2deb9752c86056752d1789c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem por objetivo, situar a obra de Sade na história das idéias, explorando as aproximações de seu pensamento com os principais fIlósofos do iluminismo. Em seguida, propõe uma análise do, caráter emancipador do ateísmo na obra. Para depois, analisar a imaginação em seu contexto, como principal instrumento para a verdadeira liberdade do homem. De posse destes elementos, propomos uma análise da critica de Sade à idéia de pacto social, tomando como exemplo, a idéia de pacto descrita por Rousseau em seu Contrato Social / Abstract: The present work has for objective to point out the workmanship of the Marquis of Sade in the history of the ideas, being explored the approaches of its workmanship with the main philosophers of the Iluminism. After that, it considers an analysis of emancipador carater of the ateísm in the workmanship. It stops later, to analyze the imagination in its context, as main instrument for the true freedom of the mano Of ownership of these elements, we consider an analysis of criticizes of Sade the idea of social pact, taking as example, the described ide_ of pact for Rousseau in its Social Contract / Mestrado / Filosofia / Mestre em Filosofia