The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life by Austin Dacey
Jenny Bunker is at ease with a secular conscience
Ideas
What lies beneath
Even godless humanism needs a sense of the spiritual, says Paul Heelas
Without illusions
Doug Ireland welcomes a passionate and practical approach to secularism
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen
Jenny Bunker sips the spirit of nobility
On neutral ground
We have already invented a way for the devout and the godless to get along in public, says Paul Kelly. We just have to believe in it
Torch bearers
Politics, religion and money may be wrestling to control the Olympics. But, argues Paul Sims, they’ll never be a match for the sheer drama
ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield
Bill Thompson has mixed feelings about Susan Greenfield
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
Simon May comes face to face with mortality
The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history
Thinkers: Face to face
Heidegger’s former disciple Emmanuel Levinas, a victim of Nazism, pioneered a humanism for the 21st century argues Roger Davidson