Richard Holloway
Books by Richard Holloway
“It is a small book that is enormous in terms of its reach. It makes you think at levels you didn’t think you had the ability to have some opinion about. It also opens up doors that you didn’t even know were there.” Read more...
Sue Black, Medical Scientist
Godless Morality
by Richard Holloway
He was anxious to say that there’s no need to found morality on religion. There is a connect, obviously, between the Christian religion and the morality that he teaches, but people can be morally highly principled, conscientious without necessarily tangling with any religion whatsoever.
Interviews where books by Richard Holloway were recommended
The best books on Morality Without God, recommended by Mary Warnock
Which comes first, morality or religion? And what happens when religious dogma clashes with the morality it purports to uphold? British philosopher Mary Warnock recommends the best books on morality without God.
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
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Death, Dissection and the Destitute: The Politics of the Corpse in Pre-Victorian Britain
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The Trick to Time
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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
by Richard Holloway
The best books on Death, recommended by Sue Black
The best books on Death, recommended by Sue Black
As one of the most distinguished forensic anthropologists and human anatomists in the world, Professor Dame Sue Black has spent her working life in close proximity to death. Here she discusses the history of corpses supplied to anatomy houses, the misleading nature of shows like CSI, and how she intends to keep on teaching after her own death: by bequeathing her body.
