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   A controversial debate on the place of values in a secular age, between some of the most outstanding thinkers of our day - including Richard Dawkins, Simon Blackburn and Ronald Dworkin. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Ben Rogers -- Is life sacred?

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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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   Aug 20, 2004 · 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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   • 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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   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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   Why should literature be declared sacrosanct?

   • Literature is made at the frontier between the self and the world, and in the act of creation that frontier softens, becomes permeable, allows the world to flow into the artist and the artist to flow into the world. Nothing so inexact, so easily and frequently misconceived, deserves the protection of being declared sacrosanct.

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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.