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1. granta.com › is-nothing-sacredIs Nothing Sacred? | Salman Rushdie | Granta Magazine

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   Apr 26, 1990 · ‘Is Nothing Sacred?’ is the text of the Herbert Read Memorial Lecture delivered by Harold Pinter at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on 6 February 1990. It was also published by Granta as a pamphlet.

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   Jan 1, 2001 · Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically.

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   Is Nothing Sacred? is a stimulating and wide-ranging debate about some of the major moral dilemmas facing us today, such as the value of human life, art, the environment, and personal freedom.

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   Aug 20, 2004 · Is Nothing Sacred? is a stimulating and wide-ranging debate about some of the major moral dilemmas facing us today, such as the value of human life, art, the environment, and personal freedom.

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   Jan 1, 2002 · Does everything - and every life - have its price? Is Nothing Sacred? is a stimulating and wide-ranging debate about some of the major moral dilemmas facing us today, such as the value of human life, art, the environment, and personal freedom.

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   Packed with clearly presented controversial issues, we are asked to decide whether we should revere life when someone chooses to die, preserve the giant California redwoods, cherish Vermeer's originals for their own sake, or curtail personal freedom for the greater good.

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   Who is 'is Nothing Sacred'?

   • Is Nothing Sacred? brings together outstanding philosophers and thinkers, including Suzanne Uniacke, Michael Clark, Alan Holland, Simon Blackburn, Richard Dawkins, Richard Norman, Alan Howarth, Nigel Warburton, Matthew Kieran and John Harris.

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   Did Sartre say if there is no God?

   • (Jeff Vespa / Contributor / WireImage / Getty Images) Although the statement “If there is no God, everything is permitted” is widely attributed to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov — Jean-Paul Sartre was the first to do so in his Being and Nothingness — the nineteenth-century Russian novelist simply never said it.

   “If there is a God, then anything is permitted”: On Dostoevsky, freedom

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   Can ideas be made sacred?

   • Ideas, texts, even people can be made sacred – the word is from the Latin sacrare, ‘to set apart as holy’ – but even though such entities, once their sacredness is established, seek to proclaim and to preserve their own absoluteness, their inviolability, the act of making sacred is in truth an event in history.

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   Why is the Sacred a conservative idea?

   • The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – Uncertainty, Progress, Change – into crimes. To take only one such declaration of obsolescence: I would have described myself as living in the aftermath of the death of god.

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   Do good people do good things without religion?

   • From today’s experience, however, one should rather stick to Steven Weinberg’s claim: With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. No less important, the same also seems to hold for the display of so-called “human weaknesses”.

   “If there is a God, then anything is permitted”: On Dostoevsky, freedom

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   Jan 22, 2024 · Although the statement “If there is no God, everything is permitted” is widely attributed to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov — Jean-Paul Sartre was the first to do so in his Being and Nothingness — the nineteenth-century Russian novelist simply never said it.