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Good Without God

What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe

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Good Without God

By: Greg Epstein
Narrated by: David Marantz
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A provocative and positive response to Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and other New Atheists, Good Without God makes a bold claim for what nonbelievers do share and believe.

Author Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard, offers a world view for nonbelievers that dispenses with the hostility and intolerance of religion prevalent in national best sellers like God Is Not Great and The God Delusion.

Epstein's Good Without God provides a constructive, challenging response to these manifestos by getting to the heart of Humanism and its positive belief in tolerance, community, morality, and good without having to rely on the guidance of a higher being.

©2009 Greg Epstein (P)2020 Tantor Atheism Consciousness & Thought Ethics & Morality Philosophy Spirituality
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I’m not sure I believe that dignity is the basis of human morality. I think he tries to explain if by using other words, but nevertheless, perhaps what binds us together really is our connection from our evolutionary routes to develop empathy and caring. We see it in dolphins who rescue humans and chimps who adopt champs who are not related to them. Theories of reciprocal altruism, and Skin selection. Don’t fully explain not related altruism.

People have already commented about the boring narration, but I think the substance of the book is very good

Dignity

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I so enjoyed reading this book. It made me feel like I was not alone. Mr. Epstein is so smart. Thank you sir for this book. What a great book!

Fantastic!

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This is an outstanding book that clearly explains humanism. Unfortunately, the reader was like a computer voice.

excellent book, reader not

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Excellent book and a great resource for understanding more about humanism. However the narration was, to say the least, uninspiring. At first I thought the monotonous voice was computer-generated. But apparently he is human - and should refrain from further audiobook narrations.

Great book, terrible narration

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Guess it’s ok but this is a book on Humanism so why not have a speaker that sounds, well, human.

Speaker sounds too robotic

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I agree with several of the other reviews that refer to the robotic voice. I think Mr. Marantz did the author a real disservice and I wonder if perhaps he was troubled by the subject matter? In the narrations of other books, his voice is much more animated and engaged. I think Chaplain Epstein should consider reading the book himself and re-publishing. It is a vitally thought provoking and important work.

The narrator's heart was clearly not in it.

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Although laced with many repetative arguments relating to liberal politics, this book has been the best I've found for the explanation of secular humanism and how to implement its values into your life. Very grateful to the author.

Indepth understanding of humanism

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Great overview of the ethos of humanism. I disagree that nihilism is fundamentally different but appreciated the discussion of the need for humans to have something like religion even though god isn't real.

A primer on humanism

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The narrator was not good and some of us listen because ee cannot see to read anymore

Great Exposure to Humanism

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this book is incredible I've always had these thoughts in my mind and usually when I express them to my friends and family I would get a negative reaction so I stopped saying it. this book talks about all the things I thought to myself in my life plus some and really opened up my eyes too being more active and pushing for goodness without God. it's one of the best books I've ever read

enlightenment for your brain

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