Freethinkers

 

The "Four Horsemen"

Of Contemporary Free Thought

 

Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris

The "Four Horsemen" of Free Thought in 2009

 

                

   

            

 

The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought. By Susan Jacoby. 2013.

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism.  By A. C. Grayling.  2014

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason  By Sam Harris. 2005. 

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens.

The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins. 2008. 

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. By Daniel Dennett. 2006.

Bertrand Russell on God and Religion. 1944.

I have enjoyed and benefitted from reading three books by the fine writer, humanist, and scholar: Sarah Bakewell. 

How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.

At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails.

This week, I have enjoyed reading her newest book:

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry and Hope. Penguin Press, 2023, 454 pages. VSCL.