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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.
- Durkheim on The Sacred and The Profane
- Secular and Sacred
- Is Nothing sacred?!
Those things that we cordon off as being valuable beyond anything were of great concern to the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, and he labelled them “the sacred.” According to Durkheim, it is religion that forms the foundation of all the multifarious societies we live in. This is not to say we need any particular religious content — like imams, p...
But this delineation of the sacred and profane did not go away with secularism. In fact, Durkheim believed that as the more overtly religious aspects of the sacred became diluted, then we would replace them with human achievements and human nature. If we don’t have a god, we make humanity sacred (in what we would likely call humanism). It is as if ...
Are freedom and democracy sacred? Among Americans today, promoting democracy abroad is way down on their priority list. The think tank Freedom Househas written that “2019 was the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom”. What about our sacred rituals? Let’s consider marriage. Marriage rates in the US are down by nearly 10 percent over th...
Feb 15, 2009 · Nothing, nothing at all, is holy, venerable, worthy of worship; nothing is an appropriate object of reverence. (One cannot appropriately revere one's spouse, 'worship the ground she walks on,' etc.)
Under all normal circumstances it is understood to be the duty of English academics to shelter the minds of the young from noxious Continental ideas; a duty which, until recently, all English philosophers and theologians performed unhesitatingly and with great success.
Jan 1, 2002 · This book's author is best known for developing a non-realistic interpretation of Christian doctrine and an ever-more radically antirealist position in philosophy.
- Don Cupitt
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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May 15, 2006 · In the same context that an English speaker says “is nothing sacred?”, a Roman might have said, “mehercule!”, an exclamation like our “my god!” which originally meant “by Hercules!” It expresses disbelief, maybe even disgust.
