Author: Peter Cave
Peter Cave for many, many years lectured in philosophy for New York University (London) and the Open University. His latest book is The Myths We Live By: Adventures in Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Inventions (Atlantic Books, 2019/2020). For more discussion of this topic of Judaism, see Peter Cave and Dan Cohn-Sherbok’s Arguing about Judaism: A Rabbi, a Philosopher and a Revealing Debate (Routledge, 2020) and their Jews: Nearly Everything You Wanted to Know—but Were Too Afraid to Ask (Equinox, 2018). For more on a humanist stance—morality, politics, and the pan-disasters of pandemics and climate change—please see the new and expanded edition of Peter Cave’s Humanism: A Beginner’s Guide (Oneworld, 2022).
Judaism: Naturalism, Neurology, and Narrative
We may have been brought up as Christians in Christian households—our parents and grandparents may have been Christians—yet now we are not Christians at all. There is no contradiction in that assertion, which is, furthermore, true. I am an example of someone nurtured in that way yet one who is not a Christian—who is, indeed, …
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