https://nikitaobraztsov.com/tags/freethought/Recent content in Freethought on Nikita ObraztsovHugo -- 0.147.2enMon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/makiavelli-en/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/makiavelli-en/What Machiavelli thought about religion, why he almost never used the word God, how his views differed from Luther's, and whether he belongs among the freethinkers.https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/spinoza-en/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/spinoza-en/On the life and philosophy of Spinoza: excommunication from the synagogue, pantheism, the Ethics, and why Einstein invoked his name when asked about God.https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/atheism-history-en/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/atheism-history-en/A survey lecture on the history of atheism and freethought: from ancient impiety to the New Atheists of the twenty-first century.https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/nitshe-en/Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/nitshe-en/Second lecture in the series on atheism and freethought. Nietzsche as a literary figure rather than a scientist: will to power, ressentiment, The Antichrist, and why his critique of religion is not scholarship.https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/toland-en/Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://nikitaobraztsov.com/texts/toland-en/The first lecture in a series on the history of atheism and freethought. John Toland (1669/1670–1722): biography, Christianity not Mysterious, Letters to Serena, and his place in the history of European thought.