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Ideas of John Gray, by Text
[British, fl. 2002, Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.]
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1.9
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p.25
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9271
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Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living
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2.10
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p.59
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9275
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Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things
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2.12
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p.69
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9276
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The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us
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2.3
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p.47
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9272
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Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning
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3.13
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p.109
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9278
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Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life
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4.1
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p.119
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9279
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What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it?
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4.15
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p.149
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9280
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Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human
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2018
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Seven Types of Atheism
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Intro
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p.5
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23055
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Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed
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Intro
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p.5
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23056
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Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE
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Intro
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p.5
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23057
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Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge
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Intro
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p.6
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23058
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Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self
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Conc
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p.157
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23061
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Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity
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