Good Sense Without God: Or Freethoughts Opposed To Supernatural Ideas A Translation Of Baron D'Holbach's "Le Bon Sens"

by Paul Henri Thiry and Paul-Henri Thiry

Book Overview

""Good Sense Without God: Or Freethoughts Opposed To Supernatural Ideas"" is a translation of Baron D'Holbach's ""Le Bon Sens"". This book presents a compelling argument against the existence of supernatural entities and the idea of divine intervention in human affairs. D'Holbach argues that reason and evidence should be the basis for our beliefs, rather than superstition and blind faith. He also critiques organized religion and the harm it can cause...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 116266469X
• ISBN13: 9781162664699
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Fuel for the Fire for 200 Years (Literally)

When a book is consistently burned by fearful zealots for two centuries, you know that the author was on to something good. Clearly ahead of his time, the Baron d'Holbach could be thought of as combining the hard-nosed sensibility of Richard Dawkins with the witty and impassioned style of Thomas Paine with a hearty helping of G.E. Moore's moral sense thrown in for good measure. What's more, not only was the Baron d'Holbach championing atheism well before modern anthropology and biology made it possible to be an intellectually satisfied atheist, but even a cursory glance at the list of section titles shows that d'Holbach had anticipated and refuted all of the common and facile arguments against atheism that are used (quite frequently) even today. "Good Sense" is a supremely quotable manifesto of morality and reason that is no less important or needed today than it was when it was first written more than two centuries ago. Perhaps better, the sympathetic reader leaves the book feeling optimistic and energized about his or her lack of belief and, in an age of growing religiosity and open hostility, that's something that every one of us in the reviled 3% could use.