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Varieties of Unbelief: A Taxonomy of Atheistic Positions
Ist Teil von
Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 2015-12, Vol.57 (4), p.483-500
Ort / Verlag
Berlin: De Gruyter
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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In this article, we provide a classification of contemporary atheism based on the kinds of worldviews and beliefs atheists hold. We suggest that at least four general types of atheism can be distinguished: scientistic atheism, philosophical atheism, tragic atheism and humanistic atheism, which can then be divided to various subclasses. With this classification, we aim to challenge the view that atheism is not a belief system but merely the lack of belief in some transcendent being. Moreover, there seems to be no single atheism
, instead there are many atheistic worldviews that include a number of positive beliefs and motivate their atheism in different ways.