Background
Flew, Antony Garrard Newton was born on February 11, 1923 in London. Son of Robert Newton and Alice Winifred Flew.
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This was a four night public oral debate held in 1976. Dr. Antony G. N. Flew, professor of Philosophy at Reading University (England) affirmed the atheistic position. Dr. Thomas B. Warren affirmed that God exists, seeking to prove that God is the source of all creation and that Flew's position is false.
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This account of Hume's philosophy, differs from other books on the subject in two ways. First, Hume's philosophy is set in the context of his whole life's work in the study of "moral subjects" that is areas such as psychology, history, political science and economics. The second approach of this book is that it examines systematically the drastic consequences of accepting not one but three Cartesian presuppositions as "the obvious dictates of reason" which "no man, who reflects, ever doubted". Basically, Hume's starting point in philosophy was the position Descartes reached in Part IV of the "Discourse"; a position quite incomparible with any science, whether moral or natural. The consequences drawn by Hume can, however, be turned round to provide arguments to refute those presuppositions, which are today still widely accepted.
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This book argues strongly for a radical reform of Britain's schools so as to give more power to parents and eventually to achieve an independent education for all children. Talternatives to the present state school system so as to increase accountability to parents, while he criticises the present educational establishment for not monitoring its own work - and, in particular, for failing critically to assess the results of the major changeover from a selective to a comprehensive system of schools. The book attempts to clarify many of the crucial concepts - competition, co-operation, democracy, equality, excellence and elites - used in the education debate. It outlines the case for, and the major objections to, the funding of all schools by vouchers given directly to parents. The author describes and analyzes two topics that he sees as crucial with regard to possible indoctrination in schools: the debate about race, culture, racism and "anti-racism"; and the debate about peace, defence, peace studies and the peace movement.
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This collection of essays by one of the world's most distinguished philosophers addresses the many and diverse aspects of atheistic humanism. Antony Flew begins his comprehensive study with "Fundamentals of Unbelief," in which he argues that there is no good or sufficient natural reason to believe: (1) that the universe was created by a conscious, personal, willing, and doing Being; (2) that such a conjectural Being has provided his (or her or its) creatures with a Revelation; and (3) that we should either hope or fear some future for ourselves after our deaths. In the second part, "Defending Knowledge and Responsibility," Flew disposes of the perennial charge that a naturalistic world outlook presupposes values which it cannot justify. He also criticizes sociologists of belief who refute themselves by refusing to admit that there is such a thing as "objective knowledge". And he examines the subject of mental illness, explaining and defining the notion by refering to the familiar yet often denied realities of choice and consequent responsibility. The third section, "Scientific Socialism?", consists of three critical analyses of Marxism. Flew exposes the faulty philosophical foundations of Communism, compares Marxist theory with Darwin's theory of evolution, questions the status of Marxism as a social "science," and points out some of the significant failures of the socialist project. Finally, in the fourth part, "Applied Philosophy," Flew looks at three social issues which have been the subject of much recent debate: the right to die, the definition of mental health, and the problems of racism.
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Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information we receive each day. Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary, vagueness and ambiguity, contradiction and self-contradiction, the truthful and the fallacious, separates clear thinkers from the crowd. How to Think Straight lays the foundation for critical reasoning by showing many ways in which our thinking goes awry. Celebrated philosopher Antony Flew entertainingly instructs on the many and varied faults that occur in argument, the power of reason, how to challenge assertions and find evidence, and how not to be persuaded by half-truths. Flew also examines poor reasoning, and why we should be concerned with finding the truth. Lucid, terse, and sensible, with study questions and exercises to help along the way, this enlightening second edition will help you develop the skills necessary to argue and reason effectively by following a few simple, easy-to-remember directions.
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Equality in Liberty and Justice is an integrated collection of essays in political philosophy, divided into two parts. The first examines (classically) liberal ideas-the ideas of the Founding Fathers of the American republic-and some of the applications and the rejections of such ideas in our contemporary world. Among other questions about liberty and responsibility it considers, in the context of the imprisonment and psychiatric treatment of dissidents in the psychiatric hospitals of the former Soviet Union, Plato's suggestion that all delinquency is an expression of mental disease. The second part examines the relations and the lack of relations between old fashioned, without prefix or suffix, justice and what is called by its promoters social justice. It therefore presses such questions as "Equal outcomes or equal justice?" and "Enemies of poverty or of inequality?" Equality in Liberty and Justice was originally published before the winning of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire. This second edition updates the arguments of the previous editor and draws present day moral conclusions. This book will appeal to those for whom the classical liberal and conservative debates still have great meaning. Flew might well be the most significant sunthesizer of Tocqueville and Mill.
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In Crime, Punishment and Disease, Antony Flew makes clear both the meaning and the implications carried by the application of the expression "mental disease." He aims to discourage its use in conditions that provide the victims of such diseases with an excuse for failing to perform what would have been their imperative duties had they enjoyed good mental health. Flew attacks the gross over-extensions of the notion of mental disease on both sides of the Atlantic. He defends human dignity and responsibility against the suggestion that we are all, or most of us, "sick, sick, sick." In particular, he challenges the paternalist pretensions of people who claim a right to control and manipulate others because they are allegedly sick, and consequently not responsible for what they do. In a typical ordinary disease, Flew notes, it is the patient who complains of the disease rather than someone else who complains about the patient. But those who claim that some crime or all crime is symptomatic of mental disease and those who identify disorders such as attention/deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as conditions requiring psychiatric attention are taking the disfavored behavior rather than the distress of their patients as the warrant for supposedly medical interventions. They should instead first consider how what they propose to call mental disease does, and does not, resemble syphilis, measles, and other communicable diseases. Flew sees his work as complementary to Thomas Szasz's. He applies a philosophical perspective to problems Szasz discusses as a psychiatrist. This work will be of particular interest to students of philosophy and politics, in that it relates modern discussion of mental illness to the Plato of The Republic. Flew also takes note in this context of Samuel Butler's Erewhon. This work will be of direct relevance to criminologists, as well as those interested in social welfare, philosophy of education, and new developments in psychiatry.
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In Social Life and Moral Judgment, author and philosopher Antony Flew examines the social problems induced by the mature welfare state. Welfare states make ever-increasing financial demands on their citizenry, yet the evidence clearly supports that such demands are not sustainable. In this superlative collection of thematic essays, Flew investigates and explains why this is so, and calls for a return to individual responsibility. The first essay establishes the philosophical basis for his argument. "Is Human Sociobiology Possible?" answers its titular question in the negative, asserting that we are all members of a peculiar type of creature that can, and therefore must, be responsible for whatever choices between various courses of action or inaction that are open to us as individuals. In other essays, Flew shows how state welfare systems inevitably corrupt and demoralize their citizens by encouraging ever-more people to apply for welfare entitlements and reducing the incentives to avoid or escape the conditions warranting those entitlements. He investigates the origins of this new kind of welfare entitlement, and shows how very different what politicians and public sector employees produce is from what these people claim to be producing. Flew shows that the drive for "social" justice appears to require that the justly acquired income and wealth of all citizens should be progressively taxed away or supplemented by the state so that the eventual result is more, though never perfect, equality. This objective, he asserts, must be radically distinguished from old-fashioned, without prefix or suffix, justice. It was this type of justice Adam Smith referred to when he famously said that it is a virtue "of which the observance is not left to the freedom of our wills" but "which may be extorted by force." Flew question the aims of those who would discredit wealth creators and wealth-creating investment, showing that these are the same people who promote the rising "progressive" taxation needed to finance expenditure in the growing welfare state. Social Life and Moral Judgment is a timely critique, one that will be appreciated at a point in history when governments on both sides of the Atlantic have begun to describe spending on state health, social, education, and welfare services as investments, instead of mechanisms to achieve social justice.
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Stresses the importance of Hume's An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding not only as a philosophical text in its own right, but also as the starting point for developing an understanding of broader philosophical issues. Flew takes in such modern thinkers as Peirce, Wittgenstein, Frege, and Ryle. First published in 1961, this is a reprint of the corrected 1966 edition.
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In this classic primer to the philosophy of religion, Antony Flew subjects a wide range of philosophical arguments for the existence of the Christian God to intense critical scrutiny. However, the rumour in some circles is that Flew - long-time advocate of atheistic humanism - has become a theist. Judge for yourself.
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Flew, Antony Garrard Newton was born on February 11, 1923 in London. Son of Robert Newton and Alice Winifred Flew.
Student, School Oriental and African Studies, London. Master of Arts with 1st class honors, St. John's College, Oxford, 1947. Doctor of Letters, University Keele, England, 1974.
Lecturer philosophy Oxford (England) University, Christ Church, 1949-1950. Lecturer moral philosophy University Aberdeen, Scotland, 1950-1954. Professor philosophy University Keele, 1954-1971, University Calgary, Canada, 1972-1973, University Reading, England, 1973-1982, emeritus professor England, from 1983.
Visiting professor New York University, 1958, Swarthmore College, 1961, University Pittsburgh, 1965, University Malawi, 1967, University Maryland, 1970, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1971, University California, San Diego, 1978-1979. Gavin David Young lecturer, University Adelaide, 1963. Part-time professor York University, Toronto, 1983-1985.
Gifford lecturer St. Andrews, 1986. Distinguished research fellow social philosophy and policy center Bowling Green State University, 1986, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91. Participant numerous talks and discussions on radio and television, England, Zambia, Australia, Canada, United States.
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Author: A New Approach to Psychical Research, 1953, Hume's Philosophy of Belief, 1961, God and Philosophy, 1966, Evolutionary Ethics, 1967, An Introduction to Western Philosophy, 1971, Thinking About Thinking, 1975, The Presumption of Atheism, 1976, Sociology, Equality and Education, 1976, (with T.B. Warren) The Warren-Flew Debate, 1977, A Rational Animal, 1978, Philosophy: An Introduction, 1979, The Politics of Procrustes, 1981, David Hume: Philosopher of Moral Science, 1986, The Logic of Mortality, 1987, Power to the Parents: Reversing Educational Decline, 1987, (with G. Vesey) Agency and Necessity, 1987, (with Terry Miethe) Does God Exist?, 1991, Thinking About Social Thinking, 1992, Atheistic Humanism, 1993, Shephard's Warning: Setting Schools Back on Course, 1994, Darwinian Evolution, 1997, Philosophical Essays, 1998, How to Think Straight, 1998, Equality in Liberty and Justice, 2001, Crime, Punishment and Disease, 2002, Social Life and Moral Judgment, 2003. Editor: Logic and Language Volume 1, 1951, Volume 2, 1953, New Essays in Philosophical Theology, 1955, Essays in Conceptual Analysis, 1956, Hume on Human Nature and Understanding, 1962, Body, Mind and Death, 1964, Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1971, A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1979, Philosophical Problems of Parapsychology, 1987, Hume's Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1988. Co-author: (with Roy Abraham Vargese) There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.
Member editorial board Sociological Review, 1954-1971. Member editorial advisory board Question, 1958-1970. Consultant editor Humanist, 1972-1981, Journal Critical Analysis, 1974-1995, Hume Studies, 1976-1994, Journal Libertarian Studies, 1976-1995.
With intelligence Royal Air Force, 1943-1945. Fellow Academy Humanism (laureate). Member Mind Association, Rationalist Press Association (vice president 1972-1988), Freedom Association (member council), Volunteer Euthanasia Society (chairman executive committee 1976-1979).
Married Annis Ruth Harty Donnison, 1952. Children: Harriet Rebecca, Joanna Naomi.