Book contents
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
- Chapter 23 Transcendent Man
- Chapter 24 The Real Hitch
- Chapter 25 The Skeptic’s Chaplain
- Chapter 26 Have Archetype – Will Travel
- Chapter 27 Romancing the Past
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 25 - The Skeptic’s Chaplain
Richard Dawkins as a Fountainhead of Skepticism
from Part V - Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
- Chapter 23 Transcendent Man
- Chapter 24 The Real Hitch
- Chapter 25 The Skeptic’s Chaplain
- Chapter 26 Have Archetype – Will Travel
- Chapter 27 Romancing the Past
- Notes
- Index
Summary
In 2005 I was invited to contribute to a volume celebrating the life and work of Richard Dawkins, which was published in 2006 under the title Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think. My essay title plays on Richard’s 2003 anthology A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love. After decades of illuminating the minds of millions of people through his popular science writing, Richard Dawkins turned his keen mind to religion, and the result was the birth of the New Atheist movement, which began shortly after this tribute volume was published.
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- Giving the Devil his DueReflections of a Scientific Humanist, pp. 287 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020